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The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams
4.0

Deeply cute and unbearably adorable. Stuffed to the brim with tropes -- unrequited love, friends-to-lovers, fake dating, slow burn. 

The characters suffer from no-one-would-act-like-that-in-real-life syndrome, which I can overlook because it's a romance novel. What I can't overlook is the fact that there are zero stakes after Bree and Nathan get together, which makes for a kind of boring last five chapters. The way the plot wraps up, it kind of reads more like a draft than a polished novel. I still enjoyed it though!