e-Audio, 09:37:09
Narrated by: Mimi Chang
Release Date: February 7, 2023
Published by: Scholastic Inc.
Read from: February 17-19, 2023
Stand-alone
Source: Audible Credit
TW: Injury or Medical Content, Fat Phobia, Stalking, Death
For Readers Interested In: Contemporary Romance, Realistic Fiction, Racial/Ethnic Diversity (Chinese), YAWhen seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin’s essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes viral, her entire life changes overnight. Now she has the approval of her classmates at her new international school in Beijing, a career-launching internship opportunity at her favorite magazine…and a massive secret to keep.
Eliza made her essay up. She’s never been in a relationship before, let alone in love. All good writing is lying, right?
Desperate to hide the truth, Eliza strikes a deal with the famous actor in her class, the charming but aloof Caz Song. She’ll help him write his college applications if he poses as her boyfriend. Caz is a dream boyfriend — he passes handwritten notes to her in class, makes her little sister laugh, and takes her out on motorcycle rides to the best snack stalls around the city.
But when her relationship with Caz starts feeling a little too convincing, all of Eliza’s carefully laid plans are threatened. Can she still follow her dreams if it means breaking her own heart?
Get ready to fall in love in this hilarious romcom about a girl who begins a fake relationship with the famous actor in her class, perfect for fans of Meg Cabot and Jenny Han.
*MY THOUGHTS*
This is another one that I added to my TBR because I fell in love with the cover! Good thing I thought the inside was just as cute! It started out weird, because WHO LIES LIKE THIS? lol I just couldn’t get over that lol She got hella lucky lol
Ok so what I mean by that, I mean the whole essay she wrote. Like writing it was fine, but why did she upload it? And even if she still wanted to do that, why wouldn’t you mark it as fiction? Like y’all teens are wild y’all lol But even with that, I couldn’t imagine doing that no matter what age I was lol Now OR then. I don’t know. My anxiety could NEVER like like this so seeing anyone else do it was so weird lol
The characters were really cute. Caz was the sweetest! I felt like a proud auntie the way he was treating her. She was the one I was mad at actually. Like she had a lot of nerve. She was the one who requested that they do this thing and then she was acting that way to him. It irked me a lot because why not just say something? Miscommunication is the devil.
The romance was cute, but again the miscommunication was fighting against them. I wanted to see more of them together. IDK I guess it was just the way he was there and told her how he felt and then she knew she liked him, but she didn’t want to. But because of this bickering, it left us with no real time of seeing them together? Does that make sense? I just think it’s a romance book so I was expecting more than the epilogue. (And even in the epilogue it wasn’t really a cutesy kind of thing.)
This book was a nice escape. It was cute and the characters were funny. The romance could have been a little better and the plot was cute, but it was missing something. It wasn’t my favorite, but it was still entertaining. (This would pair well with XOXO by Axie Oh and Seoulmates by Susan Lee)
Overall, I give this
