Here for the Wrong Reasons follows Krystin and Lauren, two twenty-something-year-olds competing on a Bachelor-like reality show. While Lauren is only looking for a way to enhance her social-media popularity, Krystin is genuinely trying to win Josh's (the lead of the show) heart. Even though they're quite different, they soon start to get along very well, maybe even too well. The further into the show they get, the more they realise that they may not want to be with Josh, but they definitely want to be together. Will they be able to figure out their feelings before it's too late?
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I had some mixed feelings about this book at first. They first third of the book progressed really slowly and about halfway through, I started to wonder how there could still be enough story left for the second half. Surprisingly, the second part was way more enjoyable. I think that may be because that's when we start to really get into the story of Lauren and Krystin's relationship, while the first part was just a lot of reality show, which I'm not very interested in, and not much romance, which is what I was here for. The story was a bit predictable at some points, but I did ultimately enjoy it. They used the miscommunication trope, so keep that in mind if you aren't a fan of it. Overall a great debut, I would recommend this to anyone who's looking for a fun and silly romance book, especially if you also happen to be a fan of dating shows. Oh, also, if this wasn't inspired by Hayley Kiyoko's music video for "For the girls" (girl arriving on a hoby-horse and all), I don't know what is.
Fun-fact: the authors of this book are a couple in real life, how cool!
Thanks to NetGalley, Lydia Wang & Annabel Paulsen and their team for providing me with an ARC!
