
Author: Rachel Harris
My Copy: Ebook from Publisher
The BookWhisperer's Rating:
According
to the guys at Fairfield Academy, there are two types of girls: the kind you
hook up with, and the kind you're friends with. Seventeen-year-old Alyssa Reed
is the second type. And she hates it. With just one year left to change her
rank, she devises a plan to become the first type by homecoming, and she sets
her sights on the perfect date—Justin Carter, Fairfield Academy’s biggest
hottie and most notorious player.
With 57
days until the dance, Aly launches Operation Sex Appeal and sheds her tomboy
image. The only thing left is for Justin actually to notice her. Enter best
friend Brandon Taylor, the school’s second biggest hottie, and now Aly’s
pretend boyfriend. With his help, elevating from “funny friend” to “tempting
vixen” is only a matter of time.
But when
everything goes according to plan, the inevitable “break up” leaves their
friendship in shambles, and Aly and Brandon with feelings they can’t explain.
And the fake couple discovers pretending can sometimes cost you the one thing
you never expected to want.
I thought that The Fine Art of Pretending was a sweet and cute
story surrounding Aly and Brandon.
Granted, did I like that Aly tried to change herself to get boys to
notice her? No. Seriously girls, just be
you. However, I liked that she relied on
her best friend Brandon to carry out her Operation Sex Appeal change with. Did I like that Brandon only registered Aly as
a girl after her OSA change? No. Seriously girls, just be you. (I see a theme coming.)
But once I got over those two humps, I really liked that Aly and
Brandon built a fake relationship together to fool Justin. And I especially liked that while living this
fake relationship, Aly and Brandon started falling for each other.
What I was surprised about was how much I liked Aly with Justin
as well. *Sorry, spoiler alert! He was so sweet and nice to Aly that if
Brandon wasn’t a character, I would have loved her with him.
All around, it was a sweet story and Aly really truly found
herself in this story.
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