Release Date: May 5, 2015
Pages: 343
Rating: 💜💜💜💜
Buy it: Amazon | Book Depository
When Gia boyfriend dumps her in the parking lot of her prom, she decides to do the unthinkable...convince the guy waiting to pick up his sister to pretend to be her boyfriend for the night. The task is simple: two hours, zero commitment, a few white lies.
The problem is that she can't stop thinking about her fill-in boyfriend. But can Gia turn her fake boyfriend into a real one without exposing her lie and possibly destroying her friendships?
I was casually browsing Goodreads before I sat down to review this book and I noticed that a lot of people had only given it 1 or 2 stars. Usually when I've given a book 4 stars any review that displayed it negatively makes me rather annoyed, not because they didn't enjoy the book but because I've got response to everything that they thought was wrong. I can look at the person's review and go,'ahhh but you forgot this part of the book which says this'.
However, when reading the negative reviews for this book I couldn't do that, because I agreed with the reviews. People found Gia annoying and so did I. She made decisions so that she could stay the alpha of her group, rather doing what was right. She was shallow and mean and a little bratty. She definitely acted younger than her age and she appeared to have no redeeming qualities. Quite honestly, I was planning on giving up on this book quite early on, but I decided to give it one final push.
And I'm glad I did.
I thought I was going to hate this book, which was a shame as it is the first (and only) Kasie West book I've ever read and I've heard great things about her. However, once I'd pushed through I began to see the character development and plot line that I wanted to see. Although Gia was still slightly unlikable she was marginally different from the start of the novel. She had stopped caring about her status at school so much and had started to focus on other people for once. Hayden seemed to have a calming effect on everyone in the novel, and it was good to see that not only Gia had changed but that her friends also seemed to learn something from her situation.
The ending was a cutesy way to wrap everything up neatly, but I did feel like Gia got off very easily. By the end she had the boy she wanted, her friend group stocking by her side and a new group of friends to look out for her. I almost wish that she had had to sacrifice something to get the boy, but instead she got everything given to her on a plate by the end. However, this is a cute romantic contemporary, so what else was to be expected?
If you want to read a summery contemporary I do think you should pick this book up. There are parties, beaches and friendships that will make you wish summer would never end. I will warn you that it takes a little bit of effort to get through the first few chapters, because all you to do is tell Gia to stop being so self-centred, but once you work through that it is a fun and contemporary for any romance lovers.
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