3.82 AVERAGE


A very sweet love story steeped in Asian flavor.
funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Fake dates and Moon cakes by Sher Lee
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Just like the title of the book, I would say this book gave me all the cute feels.
A pretty straight forward plot of boy meets boy, coupled with how the relationship starts, the difficulties and the beginning of love
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So Dylan lost his mom and now lives with his aunt and cousin who run a chinese take away, on a freak food delivery incident Dylan meets Theo at Adrian's and writes him off as the rich kid. However, things take up differently and Theo offers Dylan to be his fake date at a family wedding.
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In between the chemistry of the boys, we get to know of their backgrounds - their griefs, troubles and goals. Theo's is his crazy rich family and distance with dad after his mom's death and dad's second marriage. Dylan obviously has monetary issues and wants to win the mooncake making contest both to get some help on publicity, monetary front and also as an ode to his late mom.
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Simple, yummy with all the food descriptions, heart warming at points, its a nice mood lifter , contemporary and truly YA
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emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
funny lighthearted fast-paced

I adored this book. I think it was very cute and relaxing compared to the stuff I normally read.
funny hopeful lighthearted slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No