Book Review: Shipped by Meredith Tate

Publisher: Penguin Teen Canada, May 18th 2021

Format: ebook

Pages: 272

Rating: 4/5 stars

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Can two IRL enemies find their happily ever after online?

Stella Greene and Wesley Clarke are Gene Connolly Memorial High School’s biggest rivals. While the two have been battling it out for top student, it’s a race to the bottom when it comes to snide comments and pulling the dirtiest prank. For years, Stella and Wes have been the villain in each other’s story, and now it’s all-out war.

And there is no bigger battle than the one for valedictorian, and more specifically, the coveted valedictorian scholarship.

But Stella and Wes have more in common than they think. Both are huge fans of Warship Seven, a popular sci-fi TV drama with a dedicated online following, and the two start chatting under aliases–without a clue that their rival is just beyond the screen. They realize that they’re both attending SciCon this year, so they plan to dress in their best cosplay and finally meet IRL.

While tensions at school are rising and SciCon inches closer and closer, the enemy lines between Stella and Wes blur when a class project shows them they might understand one another better than anyone else–and not just in cosplay. 

My Review:

Thank you Penguin Teen Canada for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: enemies to lovers, fun high school drama.
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This book was super fun and cute. I loved the drama, the competition, the nerdiness.
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Stella and Wesley were great main characters. They are both fighting for the spot of Valedictorian at their school in order to receive the scholarship, but they want the scholarship for different reasons. They have been rivals for so long that they are just so used to not liking each other, but they actually have a lot in common. I really liked how both characters were going through things that the other didn’t know about, and that if they did they would probably have a lot more empathy and compassion for the other. Stella was spunky and Wesley was just super cute! Really enjoyed this!
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CW: teen pregnancy, abusive parent, divorce.