The Cuffing Game
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Publisher Description
Bestselling author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun YA K-drama remix of Pride and Prejudice—if Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett were a college-run reality TV dating show.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when there is a hot person, there is also someone with a crush on them.
Mia Yoon has a plan for everything. Get a full ride to her dream film school in Los Angeles, behind her mom’s back, and escape her middle-of-nowhere hometown—check. Produce her own dating show starring other people and their crushes—check. But everything goes off the rails when she has to enlist the help of her own secret crush, Noah Jang, a boy she’d rather hate.
Despite being a campus celebrity voted “most eligible student bachelor,” Noah can’t remember the last time he was in a relationship. And he’s perfectly content with that, thank you very much, especially since just the word feelings makes him uncomfortable. But he can’t stop staring at Mia, who keeps glaring at him in class. And when she asks him to be on her dating show—as one of the contestants—he can’t say no.
As Noah goes on more and more romantic dates on The Cuffing Game and Mia watches from behind the camera, something feels off. With the showrunner and contestant slowly falling for one another, can the show still go on?
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K-drama-worthy conflict unfolds on- and off-screen throughout this theatrical rom-com in which two Korean American college students produce a student-run reality TV dating show. Everything in meticulous Marlon University freshman Mia Yoon's life has gone to plan, including leaving her small Texas hometown to attend film school in Los Angeles, scheduling her classes for the next four years, and creating a campus-based dating show called The Cuffing Game. When lack of interest jeopardizes the program, however, she enlists popular senior Noah Jang—the campus's "most eligible student bachelor" and Mia's crush—as a contestant to elevate the show's appeal. As The Cuffing Game's matchmaking antics start heating up and Noah's love life is broadcast for all to see, showrunner Mia—watching from behind the camera—becomes increasingly unsettled. Her growing rapport with, and deepening feelings for, Noah could upend everything she's worked so hard to attain. Good-natured humor and easygoing prose by Lee (Flip the Script) make for a lighthearted, behind-the-scenes-feeling look at a Love Island–esque production. Nuanced subplots surrounding other Cuffing Game participants and queer relationships are this tidy novel's biggest strengths. Ages 14–up.
