Cover Crush: Try Your Worst by Chatham Greenfield
Try Your Worst by Chatham Greenfield, Stonewall Honoree, is releasing their next YA, an academic rivals – to – more, sweet sapphic cozy mystery which is perfect for back to school vibes! I just love the feel of this adorable illustrated cover, that not only shows some angst, but also some flirtation between the two MCs. Forced to work together to clear their names from ongoing senior pranks/crimes they didn’t commit, both Sadie & Cleo, whom are chasing the valedictorian label for senior year, end up finding more about themselves and each other. Try Your Worst is releasing on September 23rd, so add it to your TBR now!
Thank you Bloomsbury YA for sending an advance copy!
Try Your Worst
by Chatham Greenfieldon September 23, 2025
Genres: Contemporary, LGBTQIA+, Mystery, Young Adult
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I Kissed Shara Wheeler meets The Agathas in this cozy mystery about two rivals forced to team up to figure out who is framing them for crimes they didn't commit.
Sadie Katz and Cleo Chapman have been rivals since birth. Literally. They entered the world competing to be the first baby born in the new year, a title Cleo ultimately won. And she’s been nonchalantly winning at just about everything since—much to Sadie’s chagrin. Now in the fall of their senior year, Sadie and Cleo are neck-and-neck for valedictorian. But when a string of increasingly serious pranks take over their school, the perpetrator deliberately sets up Sadie and Cleo to take the fall.
Suddenly expulsion is on the line, and the only way to clear their names is to join forces and search for the culprit. As their investigation progresses, the girls begin to question more than suspects. Sadie, struggling with depression and academic burn out, finds that her ivy league dream doesn’t seem as appealing as it once did. Meanwhile, Cleo wonders if it's time she start fighting for what she wants, rather than passively accepting whatever comes easiest.
With their futures on the line, the two grow closer, and both start to ask themselves: Are they really meant to be rivals? Or were they always destined to become something more?
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