This one started out so cute from the very beginning. It was totally a rom-com, although I wouldn’t call it hilarious. It has a lot of funny and cute moments. And I did love the banter between the two, and their awkwardness as well. While there were a lot of the things that I might often remark make me crazy about communication between the characters making things more dramatic than necessary, because these are teen characters, I’m more okay with it. It was also done in a way that actually fit teens in my opinion.

Both characters had their own backgrounds that made for the perfect reasons for them to pair up in this fake relationship. But I loved what we got to know about Caz. He really was such a neat guy, that even with his ego, deserved and appropriate for what he did and who he was, he was lovable! And Eliza’s hang ups made sense with how her life had been, how she had traveled and had to leave behind friends. I wonder these days if kids who travel like that with parents still have the same issues when there is social media? I mean there was social media in this book. But I wonder if it is much different than before those days. It also makes me realize the YA I wrote needs a major update because I wasn’t thinking about social media for the daughter of a military family and her keeping in contact with people in all the places she’d lived.

I also liked how the author didn’t let what they thought would solve an issue towards the end actually be a complete easy save. I love that both characters had to struggle, and that even when one had to kind of be the one begging for another chance, the way the other one reacted and accepted them back in the end was sweet and perfect.

In the end I definitely recommend this as a sweet romance read for the YA readers.