If you love love triangles, codes, and running for your life, then you have to add Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies to your TBR. I fell into this story, into the sibling relationship, and into this unlikely group trying to survive. Keep reading this book review of Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies for my full thoughts.
Summary
After a magical kiss at Prom, best friends Tan Lee and Winter Woo agree to cool it off, a plan that goes awry when their parents jointly head off to Hawaii and leave Tan and Winter to babysit Tan’s sister Sana together. If that isn’t complicated enough, Tan’s ex-girlfriend from Shanghai arrives on his doorstep with money stolen from her billionaire father and thugs on her heels.
Tan soon finds himself on the run, trying to out-manuever international hackers and protect his friends, family and sister – and his own heart.
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies brings the heists, love triangles, and secrets. The intrigue level is off the charts here. You aren’t sure what is laying around the next corner. And the whole time you’re also wondering if Winter and Tan can be together. If their tangled families will be a road block and if they can be honest with each other. I loved the constant state of being on my toes about what might happen. About what new situation Tan and Winter are going to be thrown in which is so different from their daily lives.
There are so many levels of secrets and intrigues I can’t talk about. But it’s one of those stories where you’re thinking how much worse can it get….At the same time Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies is about friends who have our back. About help in unlikely places. In the power of being vulnerable, being open to new people, and realizing when it’s important to speak our truth. I also loved the side family characters of Tan’s sister and the little glimpses of Winter and Tan’s family.
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While I had a love hate relationship with Rebecca – you’ll see why – I also wish we got a bit more depth into Winter. What we see, I really enjoyed, but I just wish a certain sub story line got a bit more time to shine. Apart from that, I really enjoyed Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies and the ways it sweeps us away into a world of chases and codes. Find Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies on Goodreads, Storygraph, Amazon, Bookshop.org, Blackwells, & Libro. fm.