Karina agrees to fake date Ace to cover up the fact that he’s being tutored in English, but they both quickly realize that this fake dating is starting to turn into really dating… And then he tells his family that they’re dating when they’re definitely not. Ace, the bad boy who doesn’t seem all that bad. ![]() Karina doesn’t like having to follow her parents strict rules and expectations, but she does as she is asked if it means not disappointing them or inciting an anxiety attack. Her parents want her to be a doctor, they expect her to be a doctor, so that’s what she will become. I also have anxiety, which Karina also suffers from, so I was relating a lot to her feelings and emotions throughout this book.Īll Karina wants is to make her parents proud – but that means sacrificing her dreams of being an English major at Columbia. Though I’m not Bangladeshi or Muslim, I am a Jewish girl and the daughter of an immigrant and I could relate a lot to the fears Karina had about pursuing her dream. T-minus twenty-eight days until everything returns to normal-but what if Karina no longer wants it to? Though Karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back. But Ace Clyde does everything right-he brings her coffee in the mornings, impresses her friends without trying, and even promises to buy her a dozen books (a week) if she goes along with his fake-dating facade. Pretending to date him? Out of the question. Tutoring the school’s resident bad boy was already crossing a line. Instead, one simple lie unravels everything. When her parents go abroad to Bangladesh for four weeks, Karina expects some peace and quiet. Keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents’ rules-even if it means sacrificing her dreams. How do you make one month last a lifetime? This is an honest, spoiler free review and all thoughts and feelings are my own.Ī reserved Bangladeshi teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date her school’s resident bad boy. ![]() Thank you to Turn the Page Tours and Inkyard Press for providing me with a copy for review. I have been on a contemporary kick and this book scratched all of the itches I had! Fake dating? Friends to lovers? Anxiety rep? Super cute moments and references I can’t get out of my head? This book checked them all!
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