Happy Thursday my bookish friends. Change in the blogging schedule this week. So you might have another one tomorrow too as I’m in that blogging mood at the moment. Welcome to all of my new followers as well, I’m currently doing a WordPress train on my twitter, so make sure you add your link to discover new blogs. Today I thought I would review two books that are perfect this time and this time of the year as well. They are books about books which I loved.

The Upside of Falling by Alex Light
Published by HarperTeen on February 18, 2020
Genres: Contemporary
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It’s been years since seventeen-year-old Becca Hart believed in true love. But when her former best friend teases her for not having a boyfriend, Becca impulsively pretends she’s been secretly seeing someone.
Brett Wells has it all. Being captain of the football team and one of the most popular guys in school, he should have no problem finding someone to date, but he’s always been more focused on his future than who to bring to prom. When he overhears Becca’s lie, Brett decides to step in and be her mystery guy. It’s the perfect solution: he gets people off his back for not dating and she can keep up the ruse.
Acting like the perfect couple isn’t easy though, especially when you barely know the other person. But with Becca still picking up the pieces from when her world was blown apart years ago and Brett just barely holding his together now, they begin to realize they have more in common than they ever could have imagined. When the line between real and pretend begins to blur, they are forced to answer the question: is this fake romance the realest thing in either of their lives?

My Review

So yesterday we had our clubhouse meeting and I loved it. It was my first meeting and I finally read the book box club featured read. This book is a super cute bookish romance, that I read in the middle of everything happening in the world. It was what I needed. The type of romance that puts a goofish smile on your face and you just can’t help but race through the book.

I haven’t read many with the fake relationship trope, but in some way they are kind of the best. There’s this awkwardness, shyness of getting to know each, the rest of the school knows about they are in a relationship when they are still learning about each other. I loved MC, Becca, her love of romance books, how she doesn’t want her heart broken in real life, like her father did by leaving her and her mum, that’s why she lives in books. Plus Brent, a jock, the complete perfect book boyfriend in Becca’s books and this one. The complete opposite to Becca, why did he offer to be her fake boyfriend at school. Maybe he needed someone to ground him as well, the more time they were with each, the closer they got. His parents have his life planned as well, Becca seems to open his eye to world around him.

I loved how each of them weren’t perfect, but by being together they learned about themselves, and old friendships reunited. I found it was also surprising (mild spoiler here) that the person to question the relationship wasn’t the girl. Not the classic, it’s me not you either. It was refreshing, cute bookish romance that I honestly couldn’t put down. Alex writing is addictive and the pace was perfect that I kept on turning pages. After our clubhouse meeting I learnt so much about Alex, and all the lovely ladies reading the book together. It was amazing and so what we needed.

Life's a Beach (Bookshop Girl, # 2) by Chloe Coles
Published by Hot Key Books on September 20, 2018
Genres: Contemporary
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The second in a new laugh-out-loud and sparky teen series, perfect for fans of Holly Bourne and Louise Rennison.
Holly and Paige are at a literary festival in Skegton-On-Sea. They've been looking forward to it for ages. It's one of the biggest book festivals around - and there's a pop up bookshop tent and a lot of Big Shot Writers. It's basically like they're being PAID to go on a BFF HOLIDAY and SELL A FEW BOOKS! They had to beg their grumpy boss Tony to put their names forward. He ummed and ahhed and said he wasn't sure it was a good idea. But they're here at last and it's brilliant.
Well, kind of. It's true that there's a diva of an author called Minnie, who dresses head to toe in pink, and insists that Paige picks fresh flowers for her signing table every day, even though it's raining. But along the way, Paige begins to find that there's quite a lot to learn from Minnie - not least, how to reach out for the things she wants . . . and the boy she likes.
Written by debut author and bookseller Chloe Coles, this is the second in a new teen series that will make you want to rush out and take shelter in your nearest bookshop!

My Review

Another book that is perfect for this time. I loved Bookshop Girl when I read it last summer, it was quick, funny and bookish. Paige, the bookshop girl saving their local bookshop. This time, best friends Paige and Holly really want to go the the literary festival to meet a famous author. When something goes wrong with their tickets, they ask their boss to send them a bookshop girls to run the festival bookshop. Along the way they strike up an uncanny friendship with posh, steamy romance author, Lady Minnie and her dog as well as a boy in a souvenir shop. What more could you love about this book.

I loved Chloe Coles first book, I read this as part of the Easter Readathon, something short, bookish, full of belly laughs and also visiting a bookish seaside town in this lockdown. It had all the feels, I loved the pacing, how Paige hasn’t lost her clumsy charm, or how delicately she had to clean up Minnie’s dog poo, or the proper first time she met the cute souvenir shop guy, she was in a Peppa Pig costume. Even now it’s putting a smile on my face. If you haven’t read this series, do it’s perfect for this time and I have the next one on order as well.