Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend
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4.0 • 48 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Winnifred Gobaldi and Byron Visser are not best friends.
Yes, they’ve known each other for years, but they’re not even friendly. Winnie considers them more like casual, distant acquaintances who find each other barely tolerable, especially when he's being condescending (which is all the time).
The truth is, they have nothing in common. She’s a public school science teacher with stars in her eyes, and he’s a pretentious, joyless double PhD turned world-famous bestselling fiction author. She loves sharing her passion for promulgating women in STEM careers and building community via social media, and he eschews all socialization, virtual or otherwise. She’s looking for a side hustle to help pay down a mountain of student debt, and his financial portfolio is the stuff of fiduciary wet dreams. So why are they faking a #bestfriend relationship for millions of online spectators?
When a simple case of tit-for-tat trends between nonfriends leads to a wholly unexpected kind of pretend, nothing is simple. Sometimes, it takes a public audience to reveal the truth of private feelings, and rarely—very rarely—you should believe what you see online.
Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend is a full-length, complete standalone, adult contemporary romantic comedy.
Customer Reviews
3.75stars-slow build; quirky characters
3.75 stars--TEN TRENDS TO SEDUCE YOUR BESTFRIEND by Penny Reid is a contemporary, adult romance story line focusing on twenty-seven year old author/genius Byron Visser, and twenty-six year old teacher/podcaster Winnifred Gobaldi.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Win and Byron) TEN TRENDS TO SEDUCE YOUR BESTFRIEND follows the building romance and relationship between twenty-seven year old author/genius Byron Visser, and twenty-six year old teacher/podcaster Winnifred Gobaldi. Byron Visser is a genius, an author and an ‘odd duck’ in the world of social norms. His best friend is Amelia, whose best friend is Winnifred Gobaldi, a young woman whose podcast promotes science, more specifically STEM-Science, technology, engineering and mathematics for girls but in this Win finds herself at a cross-roads when an grant to further her STEM promotion for women involves a larger social media platform, and a romantic TikTok challenge. Enter Byron Visser, genius, best selling author, and the man who stars in Win’s fantasies and dreams. What ensues is the building but atypical romance and relationship between Win and Byron, as our couple must navigate the world of social media, anxiety, miscommunication and misunderstanding.
Byron Visser could be considered an ‘odd duck’; a young man whose life experiences are limited; a man whose dislike of people and social norms is anything but acceptable to the outside world by Byron has fallen in love with his best friend’s roommate, a woman whose quirks and oddities grate at our hero’s sense of well being. Winnifred Bogaldi has always felt like a failure in the face of Byron Visser’s silent condemnations and perfect control of his life but Winnifred will soon discover that Byron’s eccentricities and peculiarities hide something much deeper, something our heroine realizes before anyone else. Working together to help further Winnifred’s chances at winning the TikTok challenge, our couple will discover their mutual disdain for one another hides a volatile attraction neither one is able to admit.
The relationship between Byron and Winnifred begins as enemies to frenemies to ‘lovers’. Neither one is experienced in the relationship department, and their social awkwardness is exacerbated by fear, anxiety and a lack of, or miscommunication. There are no $ex scenes, everything is implied or fades to black.
We are introduced to Byron’s best friend and Winnifred’s roommate Amelia; Byron’s roommate Jeff Choi, and Jeff’s girlfriend Lucy.
TEN TRENDS TO SEDUCE YOUR BESTFRIEND is a very slow building story line of friendships and relationships, misunderstanding and miscommunication, acceptance and love. The premise is thought provoking, engaging and captivating; the romance is sensitive; the characters are naïve, unique and quirky.
I love, love, love Winnie and Byron!
Penny Reid is one of my favourite authors as she has this amazing ability to create interesting, authentic feeling characters while folding in steamy romance, hilarious comedic moments, and tender life lessons. Highly recommend this book as well as everything else she has ever written! A million stars!