Artificial SweetheartsBy Julie Hammerle
Release Date: 7/10/17
Published by Entangled Teen
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It’s not chemistry between Tinka Foster and Sam Anderson that made them agree to fake date. With her parents trying to set her up with an annoying student golf coach, and intentionally single Sam’s family pressuring him to bring a date to his brother’s wedding, they could both use a drama-free summer.
So it’s not his muscular arms and quick wit that makes Tinka suggest they tell everyone they’re both taken. Definitely not. And it’s not butterflies that makes a kiss for appearances during the lake party go on way too long—so long that Sam wishes it were real.
But Tinka keeps people at arm’s length—she’s always been second best, even to her parents. And her relationship-for-show could crush everything when she realizes she’s done with fake, pretend, and second-best.
Disclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush book contains bikinis at the lake, a lot of making out in dark theaters, and a meet-cute you’ll read twice.
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About the author:
Julie Hammerle is the author of The Sound of Us (Entangled TEEN, 2016) and the North Pole, Minnesota young adult romance series (Entangled Crush, 2017). She writes about TV and pop culture for the ChicagoNow blog, Hammervision, and lives in Chicago with her family. She enjoys reading, cooking, and watching all the television.
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I haven’t read anything by Julie Hammerle previously but I have always adored Entangled Crush
books. Ms. Hammerle did not disappoint in
the very least. I think this book was
well written and really sucked the reader into this small town in
Minnesota. I was almost tempted to bring
out some Christmas stuff, after all it is July!
We meet Tinka
who is back from boarding school and who has moved to a new town without even
knowing it. Her parents just uprooted
and did all this without her knowledge, as if that wasn’t shock enough she was
going through her own things with her roommate who just happened to come along
for the summer break. This book
definitely had a lot of complicated realistic situations that happen to people
all the time. It was hard to read but
worth the read. Tinka is a strong girl,
but instead of facing her issues head on she tends to run away. You see her grown throughout the book and
finally realize what she’s been doing to herself and others around her. Of course she has help learning this not only
from old friends but from Sam, her neighbor.
Sam also has
his own family issues to deal with, he never really stands up for himself and
let people know what’s going on.
Sometimes it’s hard keeping up a façade like that. But together he and Tinka learn to grown as
people with new emotions growing between the two of them.
I really can’t
say enough good things about this book. It
was a quick read, very sweet and endearing. I had my heart strings pulled more
than once throughout the book, I really felt invested in the characters and
what they were going through. I just
hope you get a chance to read it and remember how important family and friends
are in your life, and how important it is to always talk to them
truthfully. Letting things go will not
only make yourself feel better but will make those around you understand and
feel better as well.
The relationship
between Sam and Tinka was cute, should I or shouldn’t I, is this real or is
this pretend struggle between the two.
It was sweet, and I was rooting for them the entire time. Loved this book, definitely need to go read
the first book in this series just to see how it all began in this small town
in Minnesota.
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