Rules for Fake Girlfriends
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
A charming and swoony YA rom-com debut from Raegan Revord, star of the CBS hit series Young Sheldon—about a young college student as she navigates her first year abroad, first love, first loss, and finding her place in the world.
Rom-com obsessed but perpetually single Avery Blackwell abandons her plans to attend Columbia in favor of spending her freshman year at her recently deceased mother’s alma mater in a seaside town in England. On the train, Avery makes a deal straight out of one of her beloved romance books with a charming local girl named Charlie: if Avery will pretend to be her girlfriend to make her ex jealous, Charlie will help Avery solve the scavenger hunt her artistic, free-spirited mother left behind on campus decades ago.
As their quest takes them all over Brighton, Avery finally starts to connect with the mother she always loved but never really understood. Before long, pretending to be Charlie’s girlfriend starts to feel like more than just an illusion. But when long-hidden secrets come to light, Avery grapples with an uncertain future and whether or not love is worth the risk.
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New York City high school senior Avery Blackwell doesn't mind being single; she's on track to graduate as valedictorian, study biology at Columbia, pursue oncology in medical school, then start her own life-saving practice. But after her free-spirited mother dies of cancer, grieving Avery defers Columbia to spend a year drafting a rom-com novel—"the only thing Mom and I had in common"—at her late mother's alma mater in Brighton, England. While on a train to the University of Brighton, Avery strikes a deal with a local girl named Charlie: they'll fake-date to make Charlie's ex-girlfriend jealous, and Charlie will help Avery solve a scavenger hunt left for her by her mother. Despite resolving to buck rom-com tropes, Avery and Charlie fall for each other, and—when secrets threaten their romance—Avery must decide whether real feelings merit real risk. Lengthy exposition and shallowly developed subplots sometimes disrupt the pacing of actor Revord's debut sapphic romance. Nevertheless, the author charms with ample references to college radio hitmakers (Girl in Red, Måneskin, Oasis) and a vivid British setting. Chapter titles cleverly outline familiar genre devices as white-cued Avery navigates change and embraces possibility with support from intersectionally diverse friends. Ages 13–up.
