{"id":2579,"date":"2025-04-17T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2025-04-17T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:05:00","slug":"you-between-the-lines-by-katie-naymon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"You Between the Lines by Katie Naymon"},"content":{"rendered":"

You Between the Lines<\/strong> by Katie Naymon<\/a>
on March 18, 2025
Genres:<\/strong> Fiction \/ Feminist<\/a>, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Contemporary<\/a>, Fiction \/ Romance \/ New Adult<\/a>, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Workplace<\/a>, Fiction \/ Women<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 368
Format:<\/strong> Hardcover<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n

No one\u2019s more surprised than Leigh when a prestigious MFA program in North Carolina accepts her. A former sorority girl, Leigh\u2019s the first to admit she knows more about the lyrics of Taylor Swift than T.S. Eliot, and she\u2019s never been able to shake the \u201call-style-no-substance\u201d feedback her high school crush made in their poetry workshop. Bad enough that her tattooed, New Yorker tote bag-carrying classmates have read all the right authors and been published in the country\u2019s leading literary journals, Leigh\u2019s insecurities become all too real when Will, that same high school crush-turned-nemesis, shows up at orientation as a first-year in the program, too. And now, he\u2019s William, exactly the kind of writer Leigh hates, complete with his pretentious sweater vests and tattered Moleskine. Leigh\u2019s determined to prove herself, and William, wrong by landing the program\u2019s highly-coveted fellowship. But Will\u2019s dead-set on it, too, and in a small cohort, they can\u2019t keep apart for long. When Will submits an intimate poem (that\u2019s maybe, probably, definitely about Leigh) to workshop, they\u2019re both forced to realize there\u2019s more to the other than what\u2019s on the page. And what\u2019s between the lines may be even more interesting.<\/p>\n

The novel started off strong; the prologue set the tone nicely. The first argument, I thought:\u00a0okay, yeah, that makes sense\u00a0<\/em>. The second time the same argument happened (think \u2013 we\u2019re not good for each other, let\u2019s stay friends), I thought:\u00a0okay, sure, I don\u2019t love it, but I get it<\/em>. The THIRD time the same argument happened, I thought:\u00a0are you KIDDING me????<\/em>\u00a0Mind you, the same argument happened 6 years in the past, so in essence, the same situation presented itself 4 or 5 times. And I was over it. This book just felt too childishly written. I just wanted to tell the main characters to get over themselves. I cannot for the lift of me resonate with someone who is still upset over something someone said to her in high school, which was over 10 years ago! <\/p>\n

I gave this novel three stars. Ultimately, this fell a bit flat for me. Leigh was unbearable and Will had some endearing moments, but at one point, I stopped caring because it just felt like we were going in circles. Maybe, if you\u2019re an English major, this will resonate with you more.<\/p>\n

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You Between the Lines by Katie Naymon on March 18, 2025 Genres: Fiction \/ Feminist, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Contemporary, Fiction \/ Romance \/ New Adult, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Workplace, Fiction \/ Women Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads No one\u2019s more surprised than Leigh when a prestigious MFA program in North […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}