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Better Than the Movies #1
BETTER THAN THE MOVIES
LYNN PAINTER

3 Stars
When Liz’s old neighbor moves back to town she hatches a genius plan to secure his invitation to the senior prom. The problem–she needs the help of her next-door neighbor, Wes. He lives to torment her. But he might be willing to make a deal.
I have mixed feelings about this book. The storyline was good. I liked the references to different Rom-Coms even though I haven’t seen all of them. But I had a hard time with the overall tone of the book. The word that comes to mind is ‘crude.’ The cat’s name is Mr. Fitzpervert… They constantly say things like, “Holy Balls,” or “I want to tongue-kiss them” and the teens call each other rude names throughout the book. Even the love interests talk to each other like this! And I just don’t enjoy reading that kind of thing. Because of that, I don’t see myself reading the sequel. This isn’t my definition of a Clean Read.



Content Warnings (may contain spoilers)



CONTENT RATING
LANGUAGE

The first two F words were from movie quotes, which I still didn’t approve of but I looked past them. There are 3 more in the last 60 pages of the book.
VIOLENCE/GORE

None.
SPICE

There is a male/female relationship to the extent of kissing.

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