Make the Fireflies Dance

Name: Make the Fireflies Dance
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Rachel Bateman
ISBN: 9781668628256

Author: Rachel Bateman

Narrator: Casey Holloway

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Running Press Kids

Published: 05/16/2023

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Romance, Clean & Wholesome, Contemporary Romance, Social Themes

Synopsis

In this rom com from the author of Someone Else's Summer, a hopeless romantic juggles senior year stress, family problems, and faulty friendships around the end of senior year and prom.

Quincy Walker is a hopeless romantic, so when she's kissed by a stranger in a dark theater, her rom-com obsessed imagination begins plotting the perfect movie-version ending to her senior year (which ends, like all great high school rom-coms, with the prom). With the help of her friends, Operation Mystery Kisser is born: a plan to set Quin up on dates with all the guys who were at the theater that night so she can discover who kissed her. The only problem? Her friends insist on blind dates, and Quin hates letting go of control--just ask the members of her group for her final project for film class. As prom draws nearer, Quin is no closer to finding who her mystery kisser was, and she's not sure she wants to continue looking. Maybe it's her dad's failing health and her brother's absence; maybe it's the fact that she's fighting with her best friend; or maybe--just maybe--it's that she's falling for a guy who definitely isn't the one she's been looking for.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amina on December 04, 2023

✰ 3 stars ✰ “Love is the calming warmth of a firefly in your chest, the beauty of nights like this and the wonder of two people finding each other in the darkness of the world.” “Don’t go looking for someone whose kisses will set butterflies loose in your belly,” she said. “You want someone whose k......more

Goodreads review by bookishly_sweety on May 22, 2023

Why why would they not tie up the loose end? What even was the purpose of the ‘operation’ 😒.......more

Goodreads review by Rachael on March 18, 2023

I loved the idea of this book. A girl gets mysteriously kissed in a dark theater and sets out on a series of blind dates to figure out who it was. Unfortunately, the execution fell flat for me. The starting idea falls apart after the first blind date. Quincy, the main character, falls for that first......more

Goodreads review by Briana on March 19, 2023

*I received this book as an ARC through NetGalley and all opinions and thoughts are my own. This was a cute, quick read of a YA romance. Quincy is dealing with the loss of her mother, her student film needing to be recorded, a brother who has ghosted his family, and a meddlesome group friends who ar......more

Goodreads review by Jack on May 17, 2023

Good Book. Could have been better. To many characters and storylines. No Climax. And left mystery at beginning of the book unanswered.......more

Quotes

“I remember walking my first date to her front door after homecoming, filled with so much hope and joyful anticipation. Just like this wonderful feel-good novel of delirious first kisses. Like that night, it will leave you blissfully happy and wishing for more.”—Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"Make the Fireflies Dance is magical and loving, romantic and incredibly moving. I read this novel in one night, turning the pages madly, veering between laughter and tears. Rachel Bateman is such a good writer; she brings her characters to life, makes us care about them as if they were our best friends (especially Quin), and makes us wonder about them, wish them well, long after we have read the last page."—Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author of Pretend She's Here

"Enchanting and entirely genuine, Rachel Bateman's Make the Fireflies Dance made my heart flicker. Quincy and her family and friends glowed on the page in so many special ways. They made me smile and swoon, laugh and cry. Bateman's romantic comedy, with touching threads of the power of friendship and grief woven in, will bring light to your life."—K.L. Walther, author of If We Were Us and The Summer of Broken Rules

"Make the Fireflies Dance is a fresh, flirtatious love story with classic rom-com vibes and warm southern charm! Quincy’s journey through blind dates and kisses in the dark will give readers all the fizzy, firefly-dancing, first love feels."—Kaitlyn Hill, author of Love from Scratch and Not Here to Stay Friends