Review: My Fake Boyfriend is Better Than Yours by Kristina Springer
Title: My Fake Boyfriend is Better Than Yours
Hardcover, 192 pages
Author: Kristina Springer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date: August 31, 2010
Source: Book Tour
Buy: Amazon
Book Summary:
Seventh grade was supposed to be fun, but Tori is having major drama with her BFF, Sienna. Sienna changed a lot over the summer on the first day of school she’s tan, confident, and full of stories about her new dreamy boyfriend. Tori knows that she’s totally making this guy up. So Tori invents her own fake boyfriend, who is better than Sienna’s in every way. Things are going great unless you count the whole lying-to-your-best-friend thing until everyone insists Tori and Sienna bring their boyfriends to the back-to-school dance.
Review:
My Fake Boyfriend is Better Than Yours is a cute read. It is very short, and the title describes it well – our main character makes up a boyfriend to feel more popular at school.
I was actually pleasantly surprised at a couple of plot twists – I was expecting our characters to go through a very straight forward progression, since the length of the book didn’t give much time for fancy build up. (If Steve had read this book, he probably would have seen the twists coming but I like to read and purposely shield myself from figuring things out.)
I have another Kristina Springer book on my shelf, and I’m interested to see if these two are similar, since that one is rather short, too.
Cute and light, My Fake Boyfriend is Better Than Yours is a great book for a beach read or car ride.
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This was the best book ever! I love it completly.
My Fake Boyfriend Is Better Than Yours is an amazing book. I liked that through out the book you keep wondering about Sienna’s boyfriend. He’s real, he’s not was all i kept thinking throughout the book. I think this would be a great book from people through the ages of 11-17 because the book has to do with what the reader could be going through at these ages.
This sounds like a really fun read! I'll definitely be checking it out. Thanks for the awesome review
where is the points scale?
also, I don't sit there while reading a book and try to figure out the plot, if the author inserts little clues it's hard not to!
Just stopped by on Book Hop. Love your site. Have a great weekend and hope you feel better soon.
how cute is that cover?? aw.
Sounds light and cute! Like you, I shield myself from analyzing plot points too hard and figuring things out as I'm reading. Most of the time, anyway! I like to read blindly and try to let myself be surprised. Seems to work better that way!
This sounds like a book that a ton of my kiddos would love. Thanks for the review! (PS: I am now your newest follower
I love this book. im in the proccess of reading this book for my book report. this is a great summary that you have here and My Fake Boyfriend Is Better Than Yours is a great book so far and i reccommend it to all girls and maybe some guys. but this book is more for girls!
~destiny~
Thanks for stopping by, Destiny! I’m glad you’re enjoying! I agree it is more of a ‘girl’ book