High-school senior Macy Atwood finds herself in quite a predicament one night at a school football game. When the lights momentarily go out, Macy is kissed by a mysterious, yet familiar, person. As she tries to figure out who kissed her, Macy recalls her junior year, a time that teems with happy memories but also misunderstandings between her and fellow classmates Meredith, Ben, and Joel. Are the events from Macy's junior year the key to discovering the mystery kisser? This outing from Ciocca is chock-full of teenage angst and drama. Similar to her debut, Last Year's Mistake (2015), Ciocca tells the novel in alternating chapters, this time skipping between Macy's junior and senior years, to relay events from homecoming and a budding romance in junior year to the current events playing out in her senior year, which dominate the final chapters. The build to the climax is slow, but features a most unexpected twist. Overall, an enticing read from Ciocca.--Patterson, Savannah Copyright 2018 Booklist

Anything can happen in the dark, and in this case, white high school senior Macy is the confused victim of a kiss-and-run.All she knows is that the kisser is a boy who whispered her name, and by the time the lights come back on, the mystery guy is gone with the wind. Is it a coincidence that earlier the same day someone anonymously posted a junior-year photo of Macy goofing around with her former guy pals, Joel and Ben? Are the two eventsthe photo's appearance on the school's internal social network and the kissrelated? Where does her ex-best friend, Meredith, fit? Do these events have anything to do with the homecoming fire that brought an end to those friendships last year? Macy's first-person, present-tense narration switches between junior and senior years, the former leading up to the fire, and the latter taking place in the present. The unveiling of the who, what, and where is gradually done rather than being lifted all at once. Macy's current best friend, Jadie, calls out the kiss as an "assault," but Macy doesn't see it that way; although she knows she should agree, she enjoyed it, and it sparked her curiositya detail that will probably divide readers the way it divides the friends. White people make up the majority of characters. Jadie was adopted from China as a baby, and her crush is a "hot black quarterback."Readers who crave romance with real depth should look elsewhere. (Romance. 13-18) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.