Never Always Sometimes

Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid

Never date your best friend

Always be original

Sometimes rules are meant to be broken

Best friends Dave and Julia were determined to never be cliché high school kids—the ones who sit at the same lunch table every day, dissecting the drama from homeroom and plotting their campaigns for prom king and queen. They even wrote their own Never List of everything they vowed they'd never, ever do in high school.

Some of the rules have been easy to follow, like #5, never die your hair a color of the rainbow, or #7, never hook up with a teacher. But Dave has a secret: he's broken rule #8, never pine silently after someone for the entirety of high school. It's either that or break rule #10, never date your best friend. Dave has loved Julia for as long as he can remember.

Julia is beautiful, wild and impetuous. So when she suggests they do every Never on the list, Dave is happy to play along. He even dyes his hair an unfortunate shade of green. It starts as a joke, but then a funny thing happens: Dave and Julia discover that by skipping the clichés, they've actually been missing out on high school. And maybe even on love.**

Thanks to Harlequin Teen and Net Galley for the book in exchange for a honest review.

I've thought long and hard about how to express my thoughts on this book and I'm still coming up blank. I had high expectations, from reading the blurb for it. It let me down. I was expecting one thing and I got something different. I thought Julia was abrasive and sometimes downright rude. Dave was meek and backwards at times. I know that I sound like all I'm doing is bashing it but I just can't find anything that I loved about the book. They tried to be so far away from cliche that they ended up being more than weird. 

If you read it let me know what your thoughts are. I'm interested how others will receive this book. 

**Goodreads summary