Published: September 30, 2025
Format: Audiobook
Length: 10 hours and 10 minutes
Narrator: Aidan Bissett, Saylor Bell Curda
Genre: Young Adult
Characters: Dani and Alec
POV: dual, first person

Content:
⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ fake dating ➺ sports romance ➺ hockey ➺ opposites attract ➺ childhood friends to enemies ➺ anxiety rep ➺ coming of age ➺ family drama ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

Review

Although I enjoyed this very much, it wasn’t my favorite by this author. The miscommunication was silly and dragged on forever while all could’ve been sorted out within a page. But then the main characters are teens and teens are dramatic like that. Still, I enjoyed Lynn’s sense of humor and banter and all the sweet little moments she creates between the main characters here. It was a really cute YA book.

❝ I didn’t care about the past or the future, because nothing mattered but the present. Her. This. Fucking us. ❞

❝ Better and worse don’t matter with us-they don’t-because it’s all the fucking better with you. And what the hell is simpler than that?❞

Blurb

From play dates on the playground to sneaking into movie theatres, Dani and Alec were inseparable as kids. Until Dani moved away. Years later, Dani is back in Minnesota, and exited to reconnect with the nerdy and comforting Alec. But teenage Alec is NOTHING like the boy she remembers. He’s the hockey STAR in a town where hockey players are worshipped as gods – and he loves it.

When one thing leads to another and Dani and Alec find themselves thrown together and playing the role of boyfriend and girlfriend, “complicated” becomes an understatement. In this Minnesota town, hockey may rule, but romance is about to take its place.

A swoony, boy-next-door fake dating romance from the New York Times bestseller, Lynn Painter.

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