Shy Girls Can't Fake Date: YA Romance Illustrated Cover Edition

by Milly Rose

411 pages, Paperback

Published September 13, 2025

About the author

Milly Rose is an animal-loving romance enthusiast with a swoon-inducing book formula. Shy girl + hot guy + first kisses. Her YA sweet romance books will have you falling in love every instalment. Milly Rose is the quintessential shy girl, who you can contact via her mailing list and reply to her monthly email blasts! Milly spends her days vying for her cat’s affection, dreaming up her next book boyfriend, and writing a fun meet-cute under candlelight with a lovely brewed cup of tea.

Instagram + Tiktok @shy.author.milly.rose

Reviews

[yasmin⭑.ᐟ (semi-ia due to parents) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars 💫.𖥔 ݁ ˖ │ ▶︎ •၊၊||၊|။||||။‌‌‌‌‌၊|• "Line Without A Hook" by Ricky Montgomery


tropes
💛 fake dating
💛 shy girl x crush's best friend
💛 strangers to friends to lovers
💛 spring break adventures
💛 clean romance
💛 no cursing (except the word 'slut')






⤿ i don't really give a damn about the way you touch me
when we're alone
you can hold my hand
if no one's home



plot ✶⋆.˚
this was a unique way to include fake dating! fifteen year old kylie has been crushing on the boy next door, lewis for a year and a half, daydreaming about what it would be like if they were together. she doesn't make a move, because she's rlly shy milly rose, are you watching me?? 😃 one day in the cafeteria, lewis and the blonde popular girl, yvette, suddenly kissed! i gasped in horror 🫢 so, lewis' best friend, parker, came up w/ an idea: they fake date and cry to make lewis & yvette break up! and let's just say...some hearts were broken. and miscommunication appeared! 😐


⤿ it's a curse
and it's growing
you're a pond and i'm an ocean
oh, all my emotions
feel like explosions when you are around
and i've found a way to kill the sounds, oh



kylie 💫.𖥔 ݁ ˖
me and kylie are literally the exact person like OMG!! me 🤝 kylie we both have brown hair, daydream about the people we have a crush on, shy, and so on. but, in one scene, she doesn't know how to communicate to parker when she saw his car at yvette's house! i might've ran to his house and asked him what in the world is he doing in her house! as i read this scene, i was frustrated!! 😅



⤿ oh, baby, I am a wreck when I'm without you
i need you here to stay
i broke all my bones that day I found you
crying at the lake
was it something I said to make you feel like you're a burden?
oh, and if I could take it all back
i swear that I would pull you from the tide



parker ✶⋆.˚
he is such a sweet and optimistic guy w/ kylie, that makes me swoon! *dies* he even could her one of his darkest secrets that he didn't even tell friends! 🥹 now, the issue is that when yvette said something horrible about jamie's mom, he defends her! how STUPID!


⤿ oh, whoa, whoa, whoa
i said no, i said no
listen close, it's a no
the wind is a-pounding on my back
and I found hope in a heart attack
oh, at last, it is past
now i've got it, and you can't have it



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pre-read 💫.𖥔 ݁ ˖
havent read fake dating in a whileeee!!! 🥹