4. Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe

By C.B. Lee (390 pp/ebook)

Sadly, I did not like this book as much as I wanted to. I don't read a lot of YA and am not the best audience for it.

The opening is fantastic: the main character is a high achieving student who is applying for an important scholarship on a deadline and then loses her Internet there is one obstacle after the other until she ends up in this coffee shop -- that is in an alternate universe. The lead characters were cute but the story lost momentum for long stretches and I found the world-building uneven and hard to follow at times.