When a girl overhears a guy getting verbally destroyed by his friends for being catfished, she jumps in to save the day—and pretends to be his online crush. A young adult romance from the critically acclaimed author of Places We've Never Been.
Wren is used to being called a control freak. She doesn’t care; sticking to the list of rules she created for herself helps her navigate life. But when a cute guy named Asher walks through the door of her neighborhood coffee shop, the rulebook goes out the window.
Asher is cute, charming . . . and being catfished by his online crush. So Wren makes an uncharacteristically impulsive decision—she pretends to be the girl he's waiting for to save him from embarrassment. Suddenly she’s fake-dating a boy she knows nothing about. And it’s . . . amazing.
It's not long before Asher has her breaking even more of her own rules. But will he forgive her when he finds out she's not who she says she is? Wren's not so sure. . . . After all, rules exist for a reason.
Wren is used to being called a control freak. She doesn’t care; sticking to the list of rules she created for herself helps her navigate life. But when a cute guy named Asher walks through the door of her neighborhood coffee shop, the rulebook goes out the window.
Asher is cute, charming . . . and being catfished by his online crush. So Wren makes an uncharacteristically impulsive decision—she pretends to be the girl he's waiting for to save him from embarrassment. Suddenly she’s fake-dating a boy she knows nothing about. And it’s . . . amazing.
It's not long before Asher has her breaking even more of her own rules. But will he forgive her when he finds out she's not who she says she is? Wren's not so sure. . . . After all, rules exist for a reason.
Title: Borrow My Heart (Borrow My Heart #1)
Author: Kasie West
Publisher: Random House Children Delacorte Press
Publisher: Random House Children Delacorte Press
Expected Publication Date: June 13, 2023
Review:
What can I say, I cannot resist a Kasie West book. They are always entertaining, always endearing, and always bring a smile to my face.
Wren is definitely a great heroine. She offers herself up fairly selflessly at the beginning, though she slowly becomes entangled in something she didn't know she even needed. She helps because she hates to see someone suffer.
This book also touches on something I struggle with with my own kids: social media and it's fall out. It's so easy for kids to be drawn into things on such sites and not realize what they may actually be getting into or putting themselves in the line of. Not something I had to deal with as a teen.
My favorite character of this was definitely the dog (when you read it you'll know)!
As always, West touches on friendship and romance and the complications that come with both. And the lessons of what happens when you keep secrets rather than be honest from the get go.
And the writing in this book is solid, no shocker since the author has had her hand in these stories for a while.
West's books always pull me out of a reading slump. And they are always fast and fun reads where I know I'll see the main character learn some kind of necessary lesson!
Now I didn't realize there will be a second book to follow this one and I'm totally intrigued as to where it will go, and who it will be about! I'm guessing Kamala, which will be fun!
Author:
I write YA. I eat Junior Mints. Sometimes I go crazy and do both at the same time. My novels are: PIVOT POINT and its sequel SPLIT SECOND. And my contemporary novels: THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, ON THE FENCE, THE FILL-IN BOYFRIEND, PS I LIKE YOU, BY YOUR SIDE, LUCKY IN LOVE, LOVE LIFE and the LIST, LISTEN TO YOUR HEART, FAME FATE and the FIRST KISS, MAYBE THIS TIME, and MOMENT OF TRUTH. My agent is the talented and funny Michelle Wolfson.
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