My Real Fake Boyfriend

by Hiromi Kobayashi (Illustrator), Amanda Browning

Rachel's grandmother needs her because embarrassing love letters from the past have been stolen. The plan is simple. Rachel just has to pretend to be in love with Nathan--like that's going to be hard. Age rating: 12 and up. Original.

Genres: Manga, Harlequin, Romance, Graphic Novels

144 pages, Paperback

First published November 7, 2006

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See also 小林 博美

Reviews

[Tiffany · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book held great potential but there were things I didn't like about it. First Nathan first saw Rachel 3 years ago when she was trying to prove that her best friends fiance was using her for her money. So Rachel steps in as the beautiful girl to woo him away. One year later Rachel met Nathan. Nathan had already established that Rachel was a "tramp" to quote him directly. But even though he works with this kind woman for 2 years and she shows nothing of this type of personality he still considers her a "tramp" and fights his attraction to her. Here is where the spoiler part comes in. When he finds out how wrong he was about her he actually tries to throw himself out a window. That was a little drastic don't you think? No relationship or marriage is flawless and I would take that as a major warning sign for future problems. If he wasn't a bad judge of character, unforgiving, and so easy to jump to conclusions and then jump himself when he is wrong the book could have been likable.

[Starbubbles · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this up until the end. It had so much potential. Don't get me wrong, I understand showing different sides of yourself at work vs personal life. I even get being so mortified that you want to crawl in a whole and die. But this ending was so lame and overly dramatic. It was so overly dramatic that it teetered between ridiculous and absurd. That's all I can say about this. That absurd suicidey window scene, and then saying he needed to proclaim his love every day to everyone. I think I just mentally barfed thinking about it again. When the scene was first unfolding, I was thinking he was going to shout to passersby about his new found love. But nooo, the buffoon tries to jump. Maybe he should have, that would have been the only way to have a more ludicrous ending than this.

[Jamahat Julaiha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rachel always love him from the first time she saw him, but she know Nathan will never love her.
Nathan always think Rachel is a tramp. That why he always give cold demeanor to Rachel. One day Rachel need their help to get her stolen item. They have to act as a lover.

Can Rachel clear up the misunderstanding? Can love really bloom this time?

[Charmaine (CharmySketches) · Rating 2 out of 5]

barely remember this and I didn't even read it that long ago. something about letters or something. the artwork is pretty though.

[Turibio]

ok

[Nicole · Rating 1 out of 5]

Uh. No.
Bad art and a cardboard cut-out of a story.