
PS I Like You by Kasie West
Um, let’s start off with this book was adorable. That’s right – now preamble. We just need to talk about its cuteness right off the bat. THE FEELS. THE TENSION. THE ADORABLE TROPES. This Book Princess is a mess in the best way. Oh squeals.
Maybe I should, you know, give you a summary about what it’s all about? XD
Once Upon a Time…
Signed, sealed, delivered…
While spacing out in chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favorite song lyrics onto her desk. The next day, she finds that someone has continued the lyrics on the desk and added a message to her. Intrigue!
Soon, Lily and her anonymous pen pal are exchanging full-on letters—sharing secrets, recommending bands, and opening up to each other. Lily realizes she’s kind of falling for this letter writer. Only, who is he? As Lily attempts to unravel the mystery and juggle school, friends, crushes, and her crazy family, she discovers that matters of the heart can’t always be spelled out…
Me and Kasie West have had an interesting book relationship – well, one she doesn’t know about. I absolutely adored her first book, Pivot Point, but when I tried her first contemporary, The Distance Between Us, I just wasn’t a fan. I liked it well enough, but I just couldn’t connect. I just couldn’t get into the feels and sometimes it was just too tropey. I was a little hesitant to ever try her contemporaries again, but when I found out she would be signing these books, I couldn’t help but pick up my one and only ever signed and personalized book. :O And thank gosh I did, because goodness, I am in love.
First off, Lily was a great heroine. I can’t say she’s not realistic, because she’s literally my best friend personified in book format. XD I literally kept texting my friend going, omg, Lily is literally you. OMG, look at this passage. You’re book twins. (My friend just binge read it, too, and literally agreed so much.) It was so cool to have this connection to her, but I was going to enjoy her anyway even if she was literally my best friend.
The family dynamic was SO great as well. Truthfully, in a lot of YA books, there are a lot of absent family members. When I was doing a book chat a few months ago, one of the questions was, name a book that has a strong sister relationship, and I literally couldn’t think of one. There are not too many books where family is SUPER present in the MC’s life, and I loved the crazy brothers and flighty sister aspects. It was wonderful.
And the fluffiness was justttttttt right. The whole premise was super adorable, and I just sat there going, this is so fluffy it hurts, but in the best hurty way. You’re not making much sense, Mandy, but it’s just so wonderful. I’m not always into the whole “secret messenger” thing, because it’s just SO OBVIOUS but even though this one was pretty obvious, it was still fun to read because West made it fun. There was a lot of tension and inner turmoil and excitement over it, and I was hooked either way.

The ship was cute. Sometimes, I felt it went on a little too long with the whole tension, but other than that, it was definitely all the right amount of feels, will-they-won’t-they-will-they-hurry-up-but-no-because-I’m-totally-into-this-horrid-push-and-pull.
Overall, this book was the right amount of fluffy and cute, and if you’re looking for a book with the right amount of feels and some cute music lovers connecting, definitely check this book out. I’m now officially hooked on Kasie West contemporaries, and she definitely has earned her title. I really did want to talk about this more, but it’s just so many feels and adorableness that I can’t handle anything remotely coherent and smart-sounding. Evil fluffy books; I’m trying to look like a big girl blogger here.
Five crowns and a Tiana rating!
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What do you think? Have you read any Kasie West contemporaries? What was your favorite? How do you feel about fluffy books? Let’s discuss in the comments below!
Your review sounds so fluffy too Mandy! Haha! XD Great review!
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LOL, thank you, Jannin. I tried to go with it, since I did just flail about in the fluffiness. XD
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I adore contemporary novels but I have never read any Kasie West novels. This sounds like so much fun to read and I really want to pick it up!
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Yes! I waited on her stuff as well, but she really does do contemporary very well. It was the very cutest of contemporary, and I definitely think you will enjoy! 😀
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I loved this book so much! Great review!
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Thanks so much! IT was SO cute. I was not prepared for that. XD
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Hahaha Mandy your review had just enough fluff and fangirling to live up to all that fluff from the book! It sounds so cool that you found your friend in the form of a character, I have yet to discover one of those hehehe. This was a great review as usual and I’M SO GLAD YOU GOT A SIGNED COPY! THAT MUST BE SO EPIC! When are you going to show off the rest of your collection to me?
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Awh, thankies, Rendz! 😀 LOL, she is literally the only one I’ve ever found. We’ll still be looking for the others. XD And THANKIES. I AM SO GLAD. And ahaha, I think that’s literally my extent. I have a few signed bookplates. Does that count? XD
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Everything counts! XD
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Ooo, I have this book on my shelf. I think I should get around to reading it!
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YES! It’s SUCH a cute and adorable and super fast read. You will definitely enjoy, I believe! 😀
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Oh, this sounds like the PERFECT Mandy book! I have never read a Kasie West book, and I am DYING to. Especially after reading your review! You know I love me some swoons, we are swoon sisters after all. And this book sounds like something I need in my life. Especially if you say it’s just the right amount of fluffy and cute! Loved reading this review!!!
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Omigosh, yes, Krysti, we need you to get you one, because I am discovering the amazingness that is Kasie West contemporaries. I thought it was a lost cause, but it is a total Krysti book as well. THE SWOONS ARE SO REAL. And thankies so much! ❤
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Mandy, we should totally buddy read a Kasie West book! That would be so much fun!
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OH
MY
GOSH
YES.
I love this idea. It would be so much fun! And we can swoon together over the book in real time. XD The two books that I know are left for me seem to be the tropiest ones yet: The Fill-In Boyfriend and On the Fence. When you get back from book fest, we will seriously have to discuss because I’m SO down for this.
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Yes!!! I actually got to meet her this weekend and LOVED her!!!! We are so doing this! I have both of those. Let’s pick a week in May and do this!
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YES. YES. YES. I just got my copy of The Fill In Boyfriend, so I’m totally down. (I’m on the hunt for a copy of On the Fence XD). But I’m good with any week! 😀 I’m finalllllllly caught up with most of my review copies after the two I read now. 😀 So no stress reading! 🙂
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Wow!!! Good for you, Mandy! I’m so excited for you! I’m putting together my reading list for May today, so I’ll get back with you on this! ☺️☺️☺️
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Ooooh okie dokie! Sounds perfect! 😀 I’ve never done a buddy read either so it should be extra cool.
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Me either! I mean, besides with Sarah of course. 🙂
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Ahhhhh would you compare notes and such along the way? I tried it do it once with one of my friends and it didn’t work because I ended up binging it while she had only gotten 2 paragraphs in. o.o I promise not to do that. XD
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Hahaha! Yeah, we’ll pick a start and finish date, and we can DM over Twitter as we go. Does that sound good?
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Sounds wonderful! 😀 So much easier than first thought. XD 😀
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Yay! I’m excited! I probably won’t have my reading schedule done until this weekend, because we have three book events this week! So I’m running a bit behind!
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o.o THREE? AND trying to recover from YALLWest? Dear gosh. XD Yeah, reading schedule will definitely not be happening. But I’m totally fine with whenever you get to it. 😀
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Hahaha! Yeah, it’s been an exhausting and awesome week for sure! Sweet! I’ll let you know as soon as I finish that tomorrow! ☺️
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Okie dokie, perfect! 😀
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This was my favorite Kasie West book! I loved it! I read it in a few hours and was smiling the entire time. Great review 😊
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Have you read all of her books? Yes! It was such a fun, adorable read. 😀 Thanks so much! 😀
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Yeah 🙂 Well, the only book I haven’t read is Split Second but I will soon! I also really enjoyed By Your Side, her newest book.
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Yes! By Your Side is finally what got me hooked on her books again (I started with Pivot Point and it dwindled a bit when I tried her first contemp), and I’m now in a book spiral with her. How did you feel about The Fill-In Boyfriend or On the Fence?
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I enjoyed them both, I probably liked The Distance Between Us better than both of them but I see you didn’t enjoy that one quite as much! On The Fence is usually well-liked by everyone 😊
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Okay, good to know. 😀 I’ll definitely going in with not super high expectations. But yeah, I didn’t for some odd reasons, but I wasn’t quite super into contemporary at the time. Maybe I will have to try it again. 😀 Thank you, though, for your thoughts! 😀
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