This was a quick, fun, YA read. Eliza Lin writes an essay about the love of her life, and it goes viral. This changes quiet, unobtrusive Eliza's life overnight. Her viral essay suddenly pushes her into being really noticed by her classmates are her international school in Beijing, lands her an internship with her favorite magazine that could potentially give her career as an aspiring writer the big push it needs. But this relationship. It's not real; Eliza has never been in a relationship, and this boyfriend is fake. Until Caz Song, one of her classmates, a rising star in Chinese film and television, agrees to pretend to be her boyfriend.
There are laugh out loud funny moments in This Time It's Real, but also some very poignant moments as Eliza and Caz try to figure out who they really are, what they truly mean to one another, and where they want to go in life.
There are laugh out loud funny moments in This Time It's Real, but also some very poignant moments as Eliza and Caz try to figure out who they really are, what they truly mean to one another, and where they want to go in life.
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