{"id":1346,"date":"2021-06-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2021-06-13T19:07:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T18:07:02","slug":"kate-in-waiting-by-becky-albertalli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/?p=1346","title":{"rendered":"Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I absolutely love the books of Becky Albertalli. She writes the books I wish had existed when I was a teenager, And &#8216;Kate in Waiting&#8217; did not disappoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I chose this to join in with &#8216;Pages of Pride&#8217; over on Instagram, and it was a lovely way to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kate and her best friend Andy always seem to have crushes on the same boy. And it has never been a problem, until Matt arrives in town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book does what Becky Albertalli does best and explores relationships of all kinds in a relatable way. You can often imagine knowing the characters or having a very similar experience to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Kate doesn&#8217;t replace Simon in my affections, she is a fantastic character and her story is a great read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I absolutely love the books of Becky Albertalli. She writes the books I wish had existed when I was a teenager, And &#8216;Kate in Waiting&#8217; did not disappoint. I chose this to join in with &#8216;Pages of Pride&#8217; over on Instagram, and it was a lovely way to start. Kate and her best friend Andy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[692,375,762,761,137],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-a-year-in-books-2021","tag-becky-albertalli","tag-kate-in-waiting","tag-pages-of-pride","tag-ya-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jrc7-lI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}