Sign Up or Sign In to add your review or comment. ' - The Reporter Reader Reviews Tell us what you think! Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Rosen, Suri, author Playing with matches: a novel/ Suri Rosen. “While Playing With Matches is aimed at a teen audience, adults who enjoy light fiction will also find it absorbing reading. 'Deliciously plotted and unflaggingly entertaining, the narration of Rain's double-life adventures is frantic, funny, and finally heart-warming.

' - The Bulletin of The Center for Children’s Books 'Besides being a sweet, big-hearted coming-of-age comedy, this offers a fascinating glimpse into the importance of the matchmaking role in observant Jewish communities. ” Playing with Matches is a cute story, but it will also touch your heart - My Book Views “I’d never read a YA novel with a Modern Orthodox Jewish main character before, and this one was funny, sweet, charming, and so, so recognizable to me in ways big and small that reading it made my heart explode a little. 'This is a funny, refreshing look at the challenges of being a teenager, when the world seems against you no matter how hard you try to make things right … because Rosen chooses to amuse rather than preach, her gentle lesson about self-discovery and forgiveness will resonate with young adult readers. ' Playing with Matches is a fabulously unique story-formal matchmaking is definitely not a regular theme in YA-that embeds all the angst of falling in love and growing up and doing right by your family and yourself all under one cover. Readers may want to keep a box of tissues nearby. Each has positive traits and some flaws, making them inherently human.

“Suri Rosen has created a set of characters fully realized. It is absolute fun, and Rain is the best kind of narrator.

” - Kirkus Reviews“ Playing with Matches is compulsively readable. ' - School Library Journal“Fizzy, funny and ultimately redemptive. 'This charming story of growing up and owning up, will ring true with readers, particularly those who share her cultural traditions. 'Charming … Rosen gives us a coming-of-age tale with a twist featuring a fun heroine who puts 100 per cent toward creating a happy ending.

Playing with Matches by Suri Rosen