I’m back at work and that means that my reading time (and my general will to live) has significantly decreased. Not only am I reading the same book I started two or three weeks ago, I also haven’t started any new ones. I have, though, a list of books that I read in the recent past and that I can totally review, which is what I will be doing today. I’m going to tell you what I thought about Boomerang by Noelle August.

Don’t ask me where I’d gotten the idea that this was a Middle Grade novel, but it clearly isn’t. I’d actually say, judging by its publication years, that it’s one of the first novels to be considered New Adult, since the main characters are both in their early twenties. Now, before I even tell you what the book is about, I’d like to say that to me they read older because they seemed to have more adult responsibilities than I remember having when I was twenty-one. I think most people at that age are still in university, so making them a little older would make the situations they were going through more believable.

Boomerang is the story of Mia and Ethan, who after a one-night-stand discover they are interning in the same company and they’re actually competing for an actual job in said company. Boomerang, the aforementioned company, is an online dating service, so of course we know that’s going to play a part in the plot.

Besides the age thing, I don’t think there was anything I really disliked about this novel, since it’s the kind of story you go into knowing what’s going to happen at the end, you just want to know how it happens. I liked that Mia and Ethan were always pretty open about liking each other, so the rivalry thing wasn’t really anything major in the plot. I also enjoyed a romance story that starts the night after the characters meet. That was fresh and original. Lastly, I liked that miscommunication wasn’t really a trope here, since usually the third-act conflict in every contemporary romance happens because of miscommunication. Like I said, it was fun and fresh, and I have already added the other books in this series to my Amazon wishlist.