In my opinion, this novel is the perfect feel-good contemporary. Where Abby is chaos, Savvy is control, and she isn’t so sure those two can ever work together. She follows rules to the T and color codes her Google Calendar, including her dates.
Savvy is the opposite of Abby - she is an Instagram celebrity, spandex wearer, and fitness queen. Second, her new sister, Savannah, is not as easy to get along with as she had hoped.
First, Leo is a counselor at the camp, which forces Abby to spend more time with him. When she first arrives, Abby isn’t so sure about the experience. Reminding me of a 21st century update of The Parent Trap (I was raised on the Hayley Mills version), these two decide that instead of telling their parents right away, they will head off to summer camp together to get to know each other better. She expects nothing to come of it, so is shocked when the test reveals that she has an older sister - and this older sister wants to meet. Wanting to learn about his birth parents, Leo decides to do a DNA test and convinces Abby to do one too.
When it comes to pulling pranks or climbing a tree to get a good shot, Abby is fearless, but when it comes to talking about her feelings, she is terrified. To make matters worse, she has been crushing on her best friend Leo for the past year, but after an embarrassing incident months before, their relationship has become awkward. Secretly, she already knows she wants to be a photographer, but is too scared to share that with her parents… with anyone besides her grandfather, really. Ever since her grandfather, her caretaker and closest ally, died last summer, her grades have been plunging, leading her parents to panic and saddle her with countless tutors who suck up all her free time. A warm, feel-good story about family (especially sisterhood), friends becoming something more, and learning to be a brave person, You Have a Match by Emma Lord feels like it should be a rom-com, but turns out to be so much more.Ībby Day is unhappy with her life, but doesn’t know how to change it.
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