3.75 stars (Yes, I needed the quarter star) 
 Being Sloane Jacobs was cute! Maybe a little too cutesy at times for me with the whole "Parent Trap" theme going on and pranks and the like, but it was totally enjoyable the whole time I was reading it. 
 There were a few times it got confusing trying to remember which Sloane's chapters I was reading with the alternate POVs but other than that, I loved the switching back and forth. 
 Nando. Yum! I was never too keen on Matt. I think it's hard for me to get on board with anyone who was once a player. That's a thing. I figured that out! 
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 With MEANT TO BE as one of my favorite reads in 2012 (and just a favorite overall), I was so excited to hear that Lauren Morrill had another book coming out in 2014 after a long wait! I actually didn't hop to reading Being Sloane Jacobs right away like I had planned and instead spent a lovely Christmas reading a good majority of it! 
 BEING SLOANE JACOBS was a fun, easy breezy book. It has a fun "Parent Trap" feel but instead of summer camp, our two main characters run into each other (literally) when in Montreal for skating camp. When Sloane Emily Jacobs (figure skater and Senator's daughter from Washington DC) suggests that she and Sloane Devon Jacobs (hockey player from Philly) switch places for the duration of their camps, Sloane Devon is hesitant but ultimately agrees. This premise was lots of fun all around. 
 It was interesting to see how both girls handled both the freedom of hopping into someone else's life and being able to let go of their own issues (or really in both cases, hiding from their issues) and at the same time the stress and pressure of trying to learn a new sport well enough to pass off as the other girl. What I loved the most was seeing each girl grow and learn things about herself by being so far out of her comfort zone. You know problems must be big to put yourself in a position that almost guarantees failure (a hockey player as a figure skater? A figure skater as a hockey player? No way can this work out, you think.) but it's also easy to see that that situation ultimately pushes each girl to her limits and ultimately end up facing their problems anyway, but almost tricking themselves into doing so by thinking they're escaping. 
 Each girl finds a romance in their adventure (Oh come on, you knew they would!) and of course wacky hijinks ensued trying to convince their beaus that they were adept in their sport. There was actually one aspect in their relationship capers that I didn't see coming and I thought that was a really cute & fun way to further tie in the two girls together and also cross their paths. There was one romance I really enjoyed and the other just not as much, but of course I was rooting for both girls to find love in Montreal! 
 They also both have some pretty serious family issues that they are hoping being the "other Sloane Jacobs" will help resolve or at least allow them to escape for a while, but true to form, you can't escape your problems. I also really enjoyed how both Sloanes learned a lot about each other without even being in communication with each other. They really did the whole "walk a mile in my shoes" deal (or in the case, skate and sweat in each other's shoes) and they came away with a totally different understanding of themselves and each other. 
 With so much love for MEANT TO BE, I actually had a high expectation for BEING SLOANE JACOBS and I wouldn't say that I was let down so much as it's just a totally different book and a very different feel. We still see some nice cheeky wit, a little bit of slapstick comedy, and some lovely life lessons learned by the main characters, but I just connected so much more with Julia in MEANT TO BE than I had with either Sloane in BEING SLOANE JACOBS. I think a lot of readers will have fun with this one but just have a more personal connection to MTB