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Fake Skating
Audiobook available · 10 hr 21 min
Back in Minnesota, Dani reunites with Alec, a childhood friend she has lost touch with. Pretending to date could help repair his image with hockey scouts and strengthen her bid for a team-manager position that might impress Harvard. The arrangement asks them to perform a relationship while they are still finding their way back to each other.
From the publisher’s blurb
“Alec promised they’d stay in touch—except, they didn’t.”Read the full description at Simon & Schuster description
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What makes it funny?
A fast-food stop on moving day prompts Dani to treat the Minnesota cold as a threat to her survival. When her mother corrects her table manners, Dani answers with a literal objection. She keeps finding reasons to argue with the ordinary inconveniences of the move.
The comedy at work
Dani enlarges small discomforts into occasions for protest, then uses cheeky logic to defend herself. With Alec, pretending to be a couple gives an old friendship a public role that may not match what either privately feels.
Try this if…
The romance gives readers an old friendship to revisit alongside the fake-dating arrangement. School ambitions, hockey prospects and family pressure make the decisions matter to the teenagers beyond their attraction.
Good to know
The setup includes parental divorce and family conflict. Alec’s image problems involve a social-media photograph with a bong.
A few distinguishing details
- Childhood friends reunite through fake dating
- Hockey prospects and Harvard ambitions shape the arrangement
- Dani’s sarcastic response to a cold Minnesota return
More funny contemporary romance
Sources & further reading
- Simon & Schuster identifies Fake Skating by Lynn Painter, ISBN 9781665921268, as a hardcover of 448 pages and lists an Unabridged Audio Download format.
Publisher
- Apple Books lists Fake Skating (Unabridged) by Lynn Painter, narrated by Aidan Bissett, with a 10 hour 21 minute length.
Book information
- Kirkus review
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