Anxious about being put in the spotlight, Jane is also trying to duck mean girl Melissa, impress her crush Will (a frat boy more interested in the free coffee Jane gives him than in Jane), and figure out why she is weirded out by Em dating Cam, who Jane isn't interested in yet can't stop thinking about. As Jane begins to successfully match up customers and friends, her boss decides to spin her talent into a holiday promotion. Her passion for coffee has transformed into what she calls "espressology," her study of various coffee drinks and the type of person who orders them ("Medium Iced Vanilla Latte: Smart, sweet, and gentle.
Jane is coasting through her senior year, working as a barista with her best friend, Em. With overtones of Jane Austen's Emma and brimming with humor and heart, this sweet, frothy debut will be savored by readers. Things are going better than Derek could ever have hoped, so why is Jane so freaked out? Does it have anything to do with Em dating Cam? She's the one who set them up! She should be happy for them, right? But when her boss, Derek, gets wind of Jane's Espressology, he makes it an in-store holiday promotion, promising customers their perfect matches for the price of their favorite coffee. Like her best friend, Em, a medium hot chocolate, and Cam, a toffee nut latte. So it's not a totally crazy idea when Jane starts hooking up some of her friends based on their coffee orders.
She scribbles it all down in a notebook and calls it Espressology. Seventeen-year-old barista Jane Turner has this theory that you can tell a lot about a person by their regular coffee drink. Or perhaps it's a small decaf soy sugar-free hazelnut caffe latte? Some might call you a yuppie. Or a medium americano? You prefer simplicity in life.
What's your drink of choice? Is it a small pumpkin spice latte? Then you're lots of fun and a bit sassy.
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