The story was enjoyable; perhaps a little predictable at times but certainly not the entire story, and I wouldn’t necessarily consider it a negative aspect anyway. The plot point of operating a food truck for the summer was a unique and interesting way to bring Max and Jordan into each other’s realms.
The narration could’ve used some improvement though, most notably Joel Froomkin’s voicing of Max during Jordan’s 1st-person chapters. There’s a jarring contrast between how Max sounds and talks when voiced by Ray Perez during his own chapters as compared to how Joel voices him during Jordan’s chapters. I’m on board with narrators changing up their voices for the ancillary characters throughout a story to give it more livelihood and diversity, but it doesn’t work well at all when Joel does this for Max during Jordan’s chapters. As a result it almost feels like there’s three main characters: Max, Jordan, and the Max that we hear when voiced by Joel. I couldn’t shake my dislike of that aspect even as I was finishing up the book.
And as far as the voiceover work in general, I wish they’d chosen voice actors who sound a little more like the teenagers they’re portraying. I might’ve gotten a bit spoiled by having just listened to What If It’s Us, voiced by the very age-appropriate sounding Noah Galvin and Froy Gutierrez, who both narrated very convincing teenagers. This issue didn’t detract from the experience in the way I felt the first point did, however.
Overall it was a good book with a good story and it’s still worth a listen, voiceover complaints aside.