The Boyfriend Agreement (St. Mary’s Academy #1) by Seven Steps

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Title: The Boyfriend Agreement (St. Mary's Academy #1)
Author: Seven Steps
Published by: Indie
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Pages: 334
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
Find it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon
My rating:

Blurb:

When Bella French's dream boy, Jake, asks her to go out with him to make his ex- girlfriend jealous, Bella does the unthinkable... she says yes. The rules are simple. Two weeks, no kissing, and a few white lies.

The problem is that she can't stop thinking about her fake boyfriend's twin brother, Cole. Can Bella get out of her fake relationship and fall into a real one without exposing her lies, or destroying her friendships?

Funny, smart, and wonderfully romantic, the Boyfriend Agreement is a tale of one girl's journey to help her friends and find love, all without losing herself.

My Review:

Favorite Quotes:

We didn’t just read books. We devoured them, brought them back up, and digested them again. We were like cows. Really cool, totally not fat, book cows.

I was invisible once. Now, with my voice raising and my heart pumping, I felt like they saw me. Not the pretend Bella that Jake had shaped into a popular beauty queen, but the real Bella. The friend. The dreamer. The thinker. The girl who wanted so badly for everyone else to accept her that she forgot about her own happiness. The girl who had sacrificed everything for love and even though she lost, had gained an understanding of herself.

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I remember liking this one enough to want to read more in the series.  It was good but it moved too slow.   And I found her too stubborn for my tastes.  She wanted the popularity too much and was willing to go almost irredeemable to keep it.  She just didn’t evolve enough for me to really want her to succeed.

And while I felt Cole was too mean, I wanted him to succeed more than Bella.  But the way he was written, pretending to dislike her but really looking out for her was not done well and I found it highly unbelievable.

Heck, I didn’t even know this was a re-telling until I read other reviews.  I’ll be the first one to admit I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I love re-tellings and the dots just didn’t connect for me.