[Review] Borrow My Heart - Kasie West

Summary: Wren is used to being called a control freak. She doesn’t care; sticking to the list of rules she created for herself helps her navigate life. But when a cute guy named Asher walks through the door of her neighborhood coffee shop, the rulebook goes out the window.

Asher is cute, charming . . . and being catfished by his online crush. So Wren makes an uncharacteristically impulsive decision—she pretends to be the girl he's waiting for to save him from embarrassment. Suddenly she’s fake-dating a boy she knows nothing about. And it’s . . . amazing.

It's not long before Asher has her breaking even more of her own rules.  But will he forgive her when he finds out she's not who she says she is? Wren's not so sure. . . . After all, rules exist for a reason. (Pub Date: Jun 13 2023)

 

Since her mother abandoned her, Wren has set a very comprehensive set of rules in her life, especially for the boys she would date. She even has one at her part-time job who is very close to filling all the requisites, she just needs a little more time—another rule. But that's when she meets Asher, a cute boy who is waiting for a girl he met online while his best friend films his embarrassment of the girl not showing. Wren decides then to pretend she is that girl. She had no idea someone so out of her rules could make her not care about breaking them.

Disclaimer? I'm a fan of Kasie West. But I didn't enjoy that much the last book I read by her. This one seems like a safer bet, so it's probably the reason why I enjoyed it so much. Plus dogs. Wren needs to find a way to have one of the dogs at her work adopted, but the dog in question isn't cooperative at all. The scenes with him were so precious, I loved them. And as I read, this book made me feel something I think it's been long since I last felt it—Asher is a great book boyfriend. I don't mean the romances I've been reading didn't have a good romantic interest, but Asher made me feel safe that wherever things would go wrong, he'd never truly disappoint me. (Perhaps, that's why I was so surprised when the climax did arrive.) I love Kasie West's book boyfriends, it was another recurrent thought as I kept reading.

It's a comfort read, the place you can get into a bubble and just enjoy the silly and the simple. Highly recommended to everyone looking for a distraction from the world.

Honest review based on an ARC provided by Netgalley. Many thanks to the publisher for this opportunity.

Rating: 4 out of 5.