Listen to Your Heart by Kasie West Review

Book Summary

Talking to other people isn't Kate Bailey's favorite activity. She'd much rather be out on the lake, soaking up the solitude and sunshine. So when her best friend, Alana, convinces Kate to join their high school's podcast, Kate is not expecting to be chosen as the host. Now she'll have to answer calls and give advice on the air? Impossible.

But to Kate's surprise, she turns out to be pretty good at the hosting gig. Then the podcast gets in a call from an anonymous guy, asking for advice about his unnamed crush. Kate is pretty sure that the caller is gorgeous Diego Martinez, and even surer that the girl in question is Alana. Kate is excited for her friend ... until Kate herself starts to develop feelings for Diego. Suddenly, Kate finds that while doling out wisdom to others may be easy, asking for help is tougher than it looks, and following your own advice is even harder.

Kasie West's adorable story of secrets, love, and friendship is sure to win over hearts everywhere.

My Thoughts

Listen to Your Heart follows Kate, an introvert girl who ends up being a cohost at her podcast class. Whoa, can you imagine how stress she was with the prospect of talking to the public even if it's not live recording, but still? I love reading her trying to live out of her comfort zone. 

Throughout this book, we also met Alana, Kate's number one best friend who had a hard crush on Diego Martinez. 

Kate wants to help her friend and the opportunity appears when she takes her cousin to tutoring center and Diego happens to works in there. Soon after, they got comfortable with each other but Kate still doesn't want to pursue Diego because of Alana. 

At the podcast, an anonymous guy calls in like almost every week talking about his secret crush and Kate's pretty sure the guy is Diego and the crush he was talking about was Alana. Wow wow wow. At this point, I already know the ending would be but I'm curious how Kasie West untangle all of this Kate-Diego-Alana mess. Spoiler alert, it doesn't disappoint me. Woho!

Yes, ninety-nine percent of this book is talking about romance (it's Kasie West, ladies and gentleman, what do you expect?) but there's this a small part I like, talking about a real problem. I like she include those issue in this book. 

If someone asks me to pick only one auto-buy author, what's your answer would be? Mine is Kasie West, obviously. With her, I always know what I would get. 

Maybe for some people, even me, all of her books are similar to each other. They follow the same formula: cuteness and fluffiness. Yes, and that's why my Kasie West rating was almost like 4 stars guarantee (I can't bring myself to rate it 5 stars because, hello, predictable issue). 

Although I can always predict how the plot of her books going to be, every time she publishes another book, I always want to read them. Because hey, life's hard, we get stressed over things in the real life and sometimes all we need is forget our problem for a while and Kasie's book is my go-to stress relief and reminds me there's always rainbow after storm. :)

Some quotes for me to always remember 

Sometimes the path of least resistance isn't necessarily the right path.

I am over him. I mean, I wasn't, or I thought I wasn't, but then he texted me a couple weeks ago and I realized there was nothing left but the idea of him. I wasn't over the idea of him but I was completely over him.

You don't necessarily get over fear. But you can succeed even if it's trying to hold you back.

"It'll get easier." I sighed. "Everything will get easier." It had to. People would forgive me. We'd move forward. And we'd all be okay.

I was definitely happy. But I was learning that my happiness wasn't necessarily tied to one particular place or even, either.

My rating is 4 out of 5 stars.