Love Radio

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Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can get a girl who hates all things romance to fall in love with him in only three dates. Prince Jones may only be in high school, but his status as a DJ giving love advice has elevated him to nearly local celebrity levels. I was scared this was going to end up being insta love with how fast things were getting in the beginning. Dani has started to withdraw a bit from her peers, a fact her loving parents definitely recognize, yet they've been unable to get Dani to open up to them about what's going on.

However, she can’t resist when Prince convinces her to go on three dates with him and gradually they fall in love.For me, one of the highlights was all the incredible heart-felt details that LaDelle put into both of their backstories. I loved how Danielle decided to take him out on a date, which was so funny because we see her being completely disgusted with the idea of love in the beginning of the story. They are helping each other grow, encouraging themselves to dream bigger and wanting harder and yet it was still hard for me to believe that there was any love involved. That doesn't mean there isn't challenge, lots of obstacles to choosing not to change or grow, or take risks for love, or otherwise there would be no story, and no reflection of the music and movies that are so deeply interwoven in the text.

Will the self-proclaimed teen love doctor be able to get the girl, or is all his love talk just hot air?Prince tries his best to convince Dani that he’s worth falling for, including genuinely trying to get to know her with the help of her parents. I read this an ARC and everything in the ARC says: get it, share it, request it for your local library.

She’s focused on her plan to move to New York City to become a famous author, and avoiding dealing with what happened at that party a few months ago.It’s incredibly meaningful and is a very important read for teens (especially) in what it has to say about sexual assault and consent. Also, they both had individual struggles with Dani struggling with what happened at a party on an unfortunate night and Prince having a mother suffering from MS with dad not in the picture. I also loved how we learned so much about Prince’s and Danielle’s backstory, it gave them so much more depth which is another reason I was so attached to this story.