I loved Long Story Short so much, that I could probably write multiple reviews.

There’s a particular kind of chaos magic associated with theatre and Serena Kaylor captures it perfectly. Seriously, reading Long Story Short made me nostalgic for my not-so-long-ago theatre days. And Serena Kaylor did not disappoint! This Shakespeare summer camp coming-of-age story is smart, swoon-worthy, compulsively readable, and I simply adored it. Shakespeare quote battles that are basically just flirting? Sign me up! All the chaos of theatre and putting together a play? Been there, done that, miss it a lot. I received a free digital ARC from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review A Debut Full of HeartĪs a former theatre kid who loves Shakespeare, I had a feeling I would love this book. Long Story Short is a witty and swoon-worthy Shakespeare-themed rom-com full of quirky characters and theatre magic. But before the final curtain falls, will Beatrice realize that there’s more to life than she can find in the pages of a book?

With her future on the line, this girl genius stumbles through illicit parties, double dog dares, and more than your fair share of Shakespeare. When she’s adopted by a group of eclectic theater kids, and immediately makes an enemy of the popular-and, annoyingly gorgeous-British son of the camp founders, she realizes that relationships are trickier than calculus. Unfortunately, hearts and hormones don’t follow any rules, and there is no equation for teenage interactions. She has six weeks to show her parents she can pull off the role of “normal” teenager and won’t spend the rest of her life hiding in a library. The compromise: the Connecticut Shakespearean Summer Academy and a detailed list of teenage milestones to check off. But while math has always made sense to Beatrice, making friends is a problem she hasn’t been able to solve, so her parents are worried about sending her halfway across the world.

She always thought the hardest part would be getting in, not convincing her parents to let her go. Growing up homeschooled in Berkeley, California, Beatrice Quinn is a statistical genius who has dreamed her whole life of discovering new mathematical challenges at a school like Oxford University.

Long story short by serena kaylor