Author: Elyssa Friedland
Series: None
Publication Date: September 6, 2022
Publisher: Berkley
Pages: 328
Obtained: Book of the Month
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 4/5
Bottom Line: It's never too late to realize your dreams
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Summary: In 1997, grunge is king, Titanic is a blockbuster (and Blockbuster still exists), and Thursday nights are for Friends. In Bellport, Connecticut, four best friends and high school seniors are ready to light the world on fire. Melissa Levin, Priya Chowdhury, Tara Taylor, and Suki Hammer are going places. Their yearbook superlatives confirm it: Most Likely to Win the White House, Cure Cancer, Open a Michelin-Starred Restaurant, and Join the Forbes 400. Fast forward twenty-five years and nothing has gone according to plan as the women regroup at their dreaded high school reunion. When a forgotten classmate emerges at the reunion with a surprising announcement, the friends dig out the yearbook and rethink their younger selves. Is it too late to make their dreams come true? Fueled by nostalgia and one too many drinks, they form a pact to push through their middle-aged angst to bring their teenage aspirations to fruition, dubbing themselves the “Most Likely Girls.” Through the ensuing highs and lows, they are reminded of the enduring bonds of friendship, the ways our childhood dreams both sustain and surprise us — and why it’s deeply uncool to peak in high school. ~amazon.com
Review: High school, such a long time ago for me and Ms. Friedland has caught what it feels like to perhaps have your dreams change on you from when you were 18. It doesn’t mean that you don’t love your life or what you’ve done; it’s just you thought you’d be elsewhere.
For friends Tara, Suki, Priya and Melissa they were all a part of senior superlatives aka Most Likely…the only one to achieve it was Suki. So the rest of the 3 make a pact to get back to their dreams even if they are
Each friend brings something different to the table, which I think readers will be able to identify with each of them throughout the book. Each friend hides something from the other until the end when all their secrets come out but it makes their friendships much stronger. Women are told we can have it all: family, jobs and friends but the problem is no one tells us how to balance it all. What do we give up or ourselves to attain status, etc?
I really liked that each one of them had their own chapters but I wish we had gotten Suki’s POV earlier in the book.
For those of us who were in high school or graduated in the 1990s, The Most Likely Club is one not to miss.
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