Thank you to the author for an eARC as a member of the ARC team! 

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TROPES

🥍 Fake Dating

🥍 Childhood Friends to Strangers to Lovers

🥍 Lacrosse Player x Theater Girl

This is such a cute read! I love when childhood friends come together, and Audrey and Parker finding each other again after years apart was adorable. 

So much happens at this one Halloween party so far, and I can’t wait to see how that plays into the rest of the series. The first book, A Not So Prince Charming, and this one take place during the same year, and it’s great to see everything from a different perspective. Knowing now what Audrey was finding her own prince charming at the same time as Ella is so cute. I want to tandem read the two books to see both stories play out at once.

I feel so strongly for both of them. Audrey and Parker have been hurt in love before, which makes them entirely oblivious to what’s in front of them. It isn’t a miscommunication, it’s a denial that someone could care as much as they do. I’m happy that we saw Audrey have justice in that department, not just with Parker but with her ex-boyfriend. It didn’t even come at the end of the book, which, in my opinion, was nice because then it was out of mind as Parker and Audrey dealt with their feelings and focused on each other.