Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read this fun debut novel!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the flashback to the 1980s that it entailed. It's just a fun coming-of-age novel.
The story begins with a Playboy magazine - 3 friends try and come up with a way to get their hands on the issue with Vanna White. The boys come up with lots of plans but finally decide (with the help of an older boy) that they can break into the newsstand shop, leave the money, and take the magazines. In order to do that, they need the security code of the store - which is the job of the main character, Billy. He meets the owner's chubby, loner daughter and discovers that she is a computer geek like him. They decide to build a game for a contest and it involves working together every day. But stealing the code is less important than his feelings for Mary - and therein lies the problem. Does he hurt Mary or let his friends down?
There is just a lot of fun in this book - old songs, times before cellphones and home computers, even talk of the clothing is nostalgic.
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