This was a really nice and quick read - but there lies my main problem: it was too quick.
I liked both main characters but because the book was relatively short, I didn't really get to know them or could really understand - let alone feel - why they fell for each other.

It was a great background story, a bit different from other teen books. (Bowling nerd gets bullied, then assaulted and blackmailed) but exactly this awful past makes it a bit unrealistic for Ali to trust new friends, let alone a (fake) boyfriend that easily.
For the reader it's like she makes a 180 from one day to the other for no apparent reason.
And I think it's quite stupid that she didn't confide in said friends or a teacher concerning the blackmail. (But she's a teen, so there's that...)

The whole rabbit vs. playbook scenario could have been resolved without all that drama.

There are a few things I didn't like or didn't find plausible but I enjoyed the book enough to continue the series and it's sweet and clean so I think it could be recommended to teens. I would give 3,5 Stars, but since LibraryThing only allow full stars I tend more to a 4. ( )

This was a high school, fake romance that turns into a real romance. Ali and Dax meet in the school office at the start of school. She is a new student transferring to the school. He is the quarterback and very popular. When he sees her, he is immediately intrigued by her. At the same time he’s trying to get rid of an ex who has become clingy. So after a few meetings, Dax and Ali pretend to date. Things go so well that the two decide that they really like each other and that they really do want to date each other. But, another scandal comes up and again Ali is caught right in the middle of it. She does something that causes Dax to doubt her and then she gets mad at Dax for not trusting her (even though she did exactly what she was accused of doing). That part kind of blew my mind. That’s when the book started to fall apart for me and got kind of ridiculous. All the beginning was actually really cute and sweet. The end was kind of a mess. ( )