Becca doesn’t believe in love. Well, she knows it exists but she doesn’t think it’s worth the risk. Someone always ends it and someone always gets hurt, right? But she loves to read romance novels, because between the pages of a book things are safe and the heartbreak is contained. Lives aren't ruined like they are in real life when love goes wrong, as she knows all too well from her parents' divorce.
When her former best friend publicly ridicules her for never having a real-life romance and just sticking to books, Becca claims to have a boyfriend. And just as she’s about to embellish her story, Brett, the school’s star football player, comes over and kisses her. In front of everyone. Becca is about as flummoxed as everyone else.
Becca is utterly unprepared for the real manifestation of her fictional romance, but for some reason, Brett seems determined to continue with the charade. She doesn't understand why he decided to do this, but it turns out he's been looking for a chance to have a girlfriend, but didn't really know where to look. She’s suddenly being challenged to live outside her comfort zone (eating in the cafeteria, attending football games, etc.) and surprisingly, it’s not as bad as she thought it would be.
The longer they continue pretending to date, the more she realizes that Brett has so much more depth than she imagined, and he has his share of problems, too. And Brett realizes that trying to make someone else happy is actually a pretty wonderful thing.
Things get complicated when pretend feelings threaten to turn into real ones, and when each of them faces personal challenges. Will they go back to their “regular” lives or will they realize that being in a relationship means supporting each other no matter how tough things get?
I thought this was such a sweet, fun book. It didn’t matter that I pretty much knew how everything would unfold. This fake-dating rom-com totally hit the spot, and I enjoyed every minute.
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