A review by sandiereads
What You Always Wanted: An If Only Novel by Kristin Rae

2.0

I would've liked this romantic comedy a lot better if the representation of Latin@ culture hadn't been so "off." I appreciated that the author included a scene in which a casually racist customer thinks Jesse looks "just like" his lawn guy, but I was surprised that instead of using Latino/a or Mexican, she kept saying "Latin" which isn't really used anymore except for cuisine. I also thought it was weird that Maddie would mention her dad's best friend being from "South America somewhere" instead of an actual place, as if all the countries are interchangeable. These might seem like tiny issues to some, but to me, they took me out of the otherwise cute story and proved problematic.