read my full review of love, decoded by jennifer yen here.
For fans of Jenny Han and Jane Austen, a rom-com that’s equal parts hilarious and heartfelt about the unexpected consequences of one teen’s quest to help her friends find love, from the author of A Taste for Love.
High school junior Gigi Wong strives to be the best: the top student, the perfect friend, and the ideal daughter. But it’s tough when there’s always someone who is just a little bit better. With college applications looming, she can’t help but worry that she won’t make the cut. Thankfully, her best friend Kyle never fails to find the right words–and the perfect bowl of ramen–to cheer her up.
After her teacher, Ms. Harris, announces she’ll be nominating students for an app writing contest, Gigi is determined to be picked. After all, first prize is an exclusive tech internship, sure to make her application stand out. There’s only one problem: she doesn’t have a winning program. It isn’t until transfer student Etta admits she’s struggling to fit in at Superbia that Gigi stumbles on an idea. She’ll use her coding skills–and the matchmaking experience she’s gotten from weekends with Auntie Rose–to create a friend matching app! Etta will meet new people, and Gigi will guarantee her acceptance into college. It’s foolproof.
What Gigi doesn’t expect is for her app to go viral around school. Soon, she finds herself at the center of a scandal–and at odds with both Etta and Kyle. Can Gigi fix what went wrong, or will her desire to be perfect cost her the people she cares about most?
my review:
I had a lot of fun with this author’s debut and couldn’t wait for her next book, especially because of the premise! It has been a couple of years since I read A Taste for Love, though, so I didn’t even realize that this was about James’s sister until I started this. Love, Decoded was a cute best-friends-to-lovers Emma retelling with a coding twist.
Gigi has been learning the ropes of her great aunt’s matchmaking business for years and has been bugging her to go digital for about the same amount of time. When Gigi’s computer science teacher announces that she’s planning on nominating one of the students’ apps for a contest with an elite internship as the prize, she would do anything to win. Meanwhile, Gigi takes Etta, a scholarship student, under her wing and tries to help her fit in more. Soon, she realizes that she can combine her current app with her aunt’s matchmaking questions to help Etta make friends, as well as win the contest. However, her complete obsession with the app brings her to a crossroads with her best friend Kyle and Etta, and she must decide what’s more important—her friends and family or her dreams.
I’m not sure why, but when I first read the summary of this book, I didn’t realize that it was an Emma retelling. It wasn’t until I started it and reached the part where Gigi takes Etta under her wing that I connected the characters and the matchmaking to that. I haven’t read Emma although I’ve seen movie adaptations, and from what I know, this book follows the source material’s plot pretty well with a modern twist.
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