Ginny Baird's Right Girl, Wrong Side (400 pages, Sourcebooks Casablanca, coming out 28 March 2023) is a fun take on the Hatfields and the McCoys. This one pepper (a bell pepper at that) book has feuding families, the tightly held, white Hatfields (in case we didn't get the connection) and the loud, Puerto Rican Machados, together in a Nantucket beach house they both won in an auction. While the moms' war continues from their own teenaged years, the Hatfield son and Machado daughter pick up almost where they left off in high school. I enjoyed the scenes of Nantucket and interactions between the families' siblings. If you liked West Side Story but thought it had too much death in it, maybe this book is for you.
tropes:
- family feud
- second chance romance
- forced proximity
Overall: 3 of 5 stars