A super cute, heartwarming rom-com, which plays out in your mind exactly like the classic happily ever after films of the past.
After his mom's death, Dylan moved in with his aunt, two cousins and Clover the dog, above her failing Singaporean Chinese takeout. Trying to help save their home and business, he decided to enter the mooncake competition, which he planned to do with his mom before she got sick, the trouble is it's with a recipe his mom accidentally took to the grave. When the delivery driver gets a flat Dylan grabs his bike and rides quickly into the posh part of Brooklyn, where a chance meeting with rich boy Theo happens. After an incident with a botched delivery, Theo turns up at their shop to apologise, they begin to bond over Dylan's cooking and their grief of both of them losing their mothers. Dylan opens up about how much this incident from the previous night could harm the already troubled business and a mysterious grant they never applied for then turns up. In return, Dylan is asked to be Theo's fake boyfriend at a family wedding and is accidentally thrust into all the rich people drama Theo's family entails, including his powerful absent father.
Fake Dates and Mooncakes is such a heartwarming story. Dylan is such a shy and awkward teen who makes you blush along with him, alongside crushing on Theo big time he also helps him reconnect with his mother's side by sharing all his love of Asian culture, history and traditions. The descriptions of all the food in this book will leave your mouth watering and super hungry! The author encapsulates grief so delicately and perfectly, leaving remembrance and the shared family grief to be an undercurrent of the whole book. I truly loved reading this and I can't wait to see what this author does next.
Devon
No comments