All’s fair in love and (food truck) war.
Everyone knows Jordan Plazas and Cindy Ortiz hate each other.
According to many viral videos of their public shouting matches, the Plazas and Ortiz families have a well-known food truck rivalry. Jordan and Cindy have spent all of high school making cheesesteaks and slinging insults at each other across their shared Philadelphia street.
But the truth? They’re in love, and it’s all just an act for the tourists.
When the fake feud lands them a reality tv show pilot, Jordan and Cindy find themselves having to lie on a much bigger scale. Trapped between pursuing their dreams or their love, can they find a way to have their cheesesteak and eat it too?
Eric Smith is building himself a niche in teen fiction; an enemies-to-lovers, romcom-y niche. I say that with no derision; his books are fun and easy to read, with likable characters. Of course, if they had talked to each other at any point, everything would have worked out much sooner, but that's true of most stories, and we'd have been deprived of some of the most fun side characters I've read in a while.
This book served to emphasise something I've read in several others and kind of known beyond that; there is nothing realistic about reality TV. Everything that happens is manipulated or planned by the producers to create the story they want; they even admit to one family that the 'right' ending will have the other family winning!
I don't know enough about cooking to know about the recipes they create here, but the descriptions of the market were great - I'd love to visit it sometime! Overall this is a fun, easy read and I highly enjoyed it.
With or Without You is available now. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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