Blog Tour, Review & Excerpt: Senior Year Bucket List by J.M. Miller

Title: Senior Year Bucket List

Author: J.M. Miller

Publication Date: July 29, 2019

Genre: New Adult Rom-Com

Cover Photo: Artist Regina Wamba

Cover Design: Qdesign Amy Queau

Caleb Samuels.

Smug. Irritating. Pain in the …

After high school, I was content with the idea of never seeing him again.

But as his sister Merilyn’s best friend, it was bound to happen eventually. I just didn’t expect it to be at her wake, where, following a foolish, naive, and completely ridiculous incident, I’m prepared to return to my completely routine life and wash my hands of him forever. Again.

Unfortunately, Merilyn had other plans.

Even though she traveled the world, her final request is for Caleb and me to recreate our senior year bucket list and take her ashes along for one last adventure.

All the foolish, naive, and, you guessed it, completely ridiculous memories return in an instant.

He tormented me, teased me, kissed me like no one ever had, made me fall for him, and broke me like no one else ever would.

Reliving it all might end with a crash worse than the first.

Or maybe not.

Maybe the fall would never end.

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Disclaimer: This review MAY contain spoilers. I received an Advance Reader Copy at no cost from the publisher/author. All opinions in my review are my own. 

This was such a heartwarming little story about second chances. What's even better is that is centers upon the Best Friend's Brother trope, which is displayed perfectly in this book. 

I liked these characters but I didn't feel overly connected to them. I felt that Celia's character had the most growth and depth by far. This journey that she takes with Caleb opens her eyes to a lot of things about herself and what she wants. Though Caleb's character felt less developed than Celia, I liked him a lot. His adoration of Celia was too sweet for words. 

I liked the plot of the story, but I felt that it was too light on the conflict. The urgency just wasn't really there. The past conflict in the book was here and gone too quickly and the present conflicts in the book felt too glazed over or minuscule. 

I thought that Celia and Caleb were adorable together. You could really feel the perfect chemistry that they had with each other. Their familiarity and friendship from high school were really evident in their interactions with each other. You could just feel their history in their body language and words. 

Overall, this is a fun and sweet story of acceptance, self-realization, and second chances that I very much enjoyed. It is the perfect summer read that will take you on a beautiful journey. It's a perfect example that this life is short and you should never settle or stay stagnant. Make this life yours. 

I blinked longer than necessary, knowing I should have looked away entirely. The memory of how her lips had felt on mine not even a week ago seemed to hold me hostage, though. A copious amount of whiskey may have been coursing through every part of me that day, blurring my very existence and creating a haze of chatter inside my head—spoken words of sympathy and mourning from others as well as thoughts of anger and agony from myself—but I remembered every f**king thing about her as if she were the rain within, clearing it all away.

J.M. Miller currently resides in Florida's panhandle. When she isn't distracted by social media sites, she writes romance novels that vary in genre from contemporary to fantasy. Aside from spending time with her family, she loves to travel and will jump at the chance to go anywhere, whenever life allows.

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