This Is How You Fall In Love

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Choose a category that works for your book and an audience that will enjoy it. Otherwise, your efforts will be wasted and possibly cause you to go to the spam folder. There are lots of groups where authors and readers can connect, right? That's probably what you're thinking. And that's a val Want new readers/books? Author Anna Kemp introduces The Hollow Hills, the sequel to her dark magical tale, Into Goblyn Wood. So Zara agrees and the act begins: after all, how different can pretending to be in a relationship w ith your best friend be to just hanging around with them like usual? Turns out, a lot. With fake dating comes fake hand-holding and fake kissing and real feelings... And when a new boy turns up in Zara's life, things get more confusing than ever. The course of true love never did run smooth, but Zara's love story is messier than most. However, the characters annoyed the HELL out of me. Every single one of them. Especially Adnan and Cami, who, despite asking Zara to do this massive favour for them so they could be together in secret, had the audacity to be mad at her for not doing that quite right. There were parts where I was pretty confused about - like, why couldn't they just hang out without Zara there, especially somewhere not in public? I didn't quite understand all of that. It felt like Cami and Zara were just being pitted against each other for drama's sake and I think it would've been a better message for that not to happen.

I also really enjoyed exploring Zara’s family relationships, and loved that unlike most YA novels, her parents were just present enough in the narrative to know they existed (and there to support her if necessary) without being too involved to make their inclusion seem unrealistic. I also really liked their positive and rather candid approach to sex (and the ‘sex talk’). A combination of pop-culture references, classic rom-com elements, and fun banter makes for an engaging read. Zara loves all kinds of romance stories in novels and movies, yet she is still longing for her very own. She is surrounded by her Desi family and friends, including her childhood best friend Adnan, but when they move from best friends to fake dating, the pair need to keep up the act even around Adnan's real girlfriend. Jealousy begins to bubble and Zara finds herself in an awkward position. Her true feelings for another are showing, making Zara's love life a very confusing story. Not exactly how Zara had imagined how her dreamy love romance would take place... Zara loves love in all forms: 90s romcoms and romance novels and grand sweeping gestures. And she's desperate to have her own great love story. Crucially, a real one. So when her best friend Adnan begs her to pretend to date him to cover up his new top-secret relationship, Zara is hesitant. This isn't the kind of thing she had in mind. But there's something in it for Zara too: making her parents, who love Adnan, happy might just stop them arguing for a while. She may not be getting her own love story, but she could save theirs. So Zara agrees and the act begins: after all, how different can pretending to be in a relationship with your best friend be to just hanging around with them like usual? Turns out, a lot. With fake dating comes fake hand-holding and fake kissing and real feelings... And when a new boy turns up in Zara's life, things get more confusing than ever. The course of true love never did run smooth, but Zara's love story is messier than most... A hilarious and heartfelt romcom, told with a light touch, perfect for fans of TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE, EXCUSE ME WHILE I UGLY CRY and HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING.this book encompassed everything necessary for a cute young/first love rom-com. Zara, the MC, is a lovely, wholehearted and sweet character who I instantly liked and felt I could relate to. Her relationship to Adnan, her boy best-friend, was unbelievably cute and i thoroughly enjoyed reading their story. The plot was more complicated than I had anticipated but I am here for it! life is messy and this was an avid description of messy love, and life, can be. I really felt the story come to life, which made me enjoy the story more as all the sub-plots were equally interesting! the ending was well-written and I felt that Zara had been on a journey (excuse the cliche!) and had come to appreciate her family and friends, and all the ways they loved her. All of the characters had their flaws but as the book progressed, I watched as they grew as people and in their love for each other. The main love interest, Yahya, was so easy to fall in love with and was my main comfort character throughout the whole story.

Please tell me what you think, how I can improve this group, and what you'd like to see added. This isn't my group. It's ours. While both Zara and Adnan insist that will never happen — they’re close friends, that’s it — the tide turns when Adnan needs to cover-up his real girlfriend and begs Zara to pretend they’re an item. How hard can it be? Very, as things turn out. First up, there’s a whole lot of practical issues around how they behave towards each other, and around Adnan’s actual girlfriend. Then there’s jealousy, and the problem of Zara falling for someone for real. With a fun meta-fiction vibe (a romcom about romcom with entertaining romcom twists), the besties-to-couple trope is thrust to the fore from the off: “that’s literally how every YA romcom starts. Boy and girl are besties, they get involved in a fake dating scheme and then BAM they get together for real.” A highly entertaining and readable romcom featuring all your favourite tropes: fake dating, friends to lovers, love triangles and plenty of pining. Rich, warm and humourous, with realistic teen characters and friendships at its heart. Have you ever enjoyed something so much that it felt like you were floating the whole time? Well, that’s how I felt throughout this whole book. All of which leaves readers expecting that very thing to happen to Zara and Adnan. Cue much confusion and soul-searching realisations on the path to heart-stirring happiness.The writing was wonderfully compelling and the characters well developed and full of depth. I particularly loved Zara, our adorable, rom-com loving bookworm and protagonist. She’s such a sweet, compassionate and loyal friend whose commitment to helping the people she cares about is beyond words. I mean she literally embodies the mates before dates mantra—even when doing so hinders her own plans or happiness.