This book just didn’t get me to care about the main characters enough to really care if they got together. Not what I expect from the author of Blurred Lines which is hands down one of the most amazingly well rounded and realistically written best friends to lovers romance book. There are no “omg I am so embarrassed for you” moments. The friendship between the women is well written and funny. On a positive note, I love a book that portrays nice guys, not jerks who suddenly learn to be nice to one girl just because they “love” her. The love story is a slow burn but maybe too slow with very few reasons for their love for each other to really present itself. Also there is a gossip blogger early on that is just dropped and not resolved or mentioned at all. They try to convince you that being an Instagrammer is this altruistic profession where she is helping her followers but is actually lying to them most of the time. The MC doesn’t think she deserves love for a pretty stupid reason and is otherwise really 2 dimensional. The story is cute and the dialogue with her friends in funny but it’s hard to see why these two characters want to be together except that they have just always known each other. But what starts out as a playful game between two best friends turns into something infinitely more complicated, as just-for-show kisses begin to stir up forbidden feelings.Īs the faux wedding date looms closer, Audrey and Clarke realize that they can never go back to the way things were, but deep down, do they really want to? Clarke is the charming playboy Audrey can always count on, and he knows that the ever-loyal Audrey will never not play along with his strategy for dodging his matchmaking mother - announcing he’s already engaged…to Audrey. After all, they’ve been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement.

One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “22 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020” and one of Goodreads’s “28 of the Hottest Romances of 2020”įrom New York Times best-selling author Lauren Layne, the “queen of witty dialogue” (Rachel Van Dyken, New York Times best-selling author), comes the final installment of the Central Park Pact series, a heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that’s perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Christina Lauren.Ĭan guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely.

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