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Faking It For Summer: The Bachelors of Coconut Beach
“You’re invited to the wedding of the summer. We hope you can join us. Mia, it’s a pity you don’t have a date.”
After receiving that rude invite from my childhood crush Rex, I did something wildly unhinged. I suggested to my best friend, Luke (Rex’s brother), that we should go to the wedding together and pretend we’d been secretly dating for a year.
The rules were
Pretend we were soulmates, written in the stars.
No crossing physical lines (I was dumb).
Break up immediately after the wedding.
As you can guess, the plan derailed as soon as Luke arrived back in town. Maybe it was being forced to share a luxury hotel room, or the game of Twister on the beach, or the strip poker we had too much fun playing, but the lines blurred almost immediately. Whatever it was, Rule #2 went out the window faster than you could say, “This is a bad idea.”
Things hit a boiling point when Luke and I got into a massive argument that felt way too real, and suddenly Rex decided he wanted me after all. Our pretend relationship got complicated fast. Somewhere along the way, it stopped feeling fake. Now we have to decide if risking the best friendship of our lives is worth a summer romance that neither one of us saw coming.
After receiving that rude invite from my childhood crush Rex, I did something wildly unhinged. I suggested to my best friend, Luke (Rex’s brother), that we should go to the wedding together and pretend we’d been secretly dating for a year.
The rules were
Pretend we were soulmates, written in the stars.
No crossing physical lines (I was dumb).
Break up immediately after the wedding.
As you can guess, the plan derailed as soon as Luke arrived back in town. Maybe it was being forced to share a luxury hotel room, or the game of Twister on the beach, or the strip poker we had too much fun playing, but the lines blurred almost immediately. Whatever it was, Rule #2 went out the window faster than you could say, “This is a bad idea.”
Things hit a boiling point when Luke and I got into a massive argument that felt way too real, and suddenly Rex decided he wanted me after all. Our pretend relationship got complicated fast. Somewhere along the way, it stopped feeling fake. Now we have to decide if risking the best friendship of our lives is worth a summer romance that neither one of us saw coming.
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Published June 1, 2026
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Did Not Finish
July 28, 2026DNF at 1 hour 34 minutes - This book, for all its analysing and _____, felt very shallow. Our FMC is a bubbly, positive blonde who had a big crush on a renowned butthead who was mean to her as a teenager. He's now getting married, which I assumed would upset her much more than it did, and its the rude note included in the invite (which I suspect was added by the meddling grandparents) that got her most worked up. Meanwhile, MMC is a workaholic with millions and an awful family. There was so much telling and not much showing, and I had to stop when FMC was overacting telling her family in the most pretentious, irritating way that she was in love with the MMC.
July 26, 2026
Mia thought Rex was her crush, but ended up being in love all along with her boy best friend, Luke! Cute story line, got a little redundant in the middle but overall great summer read. Always love a HEA! Makes me want to go to Coconut Bay Beach. 🏖️ 😎👙🍉👗⛱️ coconuts 🥥 🌴
July 30, 2026
What a whiny and egocentric little man.
August 13, 2026
I read this one. I couldn't find the non audio version in GR.
This book wasn't for me.
Extremely immature characters. Very little substance.
This book wasn't for me.
Extremely immature characters. Very little substance.
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