Keeping Up Appearances

By: Elizabeth Stevens

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's Summary

Three's a crowd, but four's a war.

Big girl undies? Check. Speech planned? Check. Nerves of steel? Check. A single crush? Not check?

What do you do when you find your best friend/crush kissing your other best friend on the day you were going to declare your feelings for him? You only agree to fake date your crush's rival. 

The King of the Bows, popular golden (play)boy, and all around douche, Xander wouldn't be my last choice for a boyfriend. Across the school, battlelines are drawn, and sides are taken between the new "it" couple of my former best friends and the excitingly scandalous pairing of me and King Douche.

Xander keeps distracting me from the plan: Make Jason jealous. He insists on holding my hand and kissing me and being nice. Ugh. Xander's not nice, and he's not the relationship type, but he's doing a damned good job of acting both parts. He calls it "keeping up appearances". I call it "take one more pass at my arse, and I'll break your nose". 

They say all's fair in love and war, but what's so fair about falling for the wrong guy when your two best friends are on the other side of the battlelines?

©2018 Elizabeth Stevens (P)2019 Tantor

Great YA read.

Cliques are very real for our young teens and high school kids. This book addressed those issues. Not only did I like the moral of the story, but it was a very sweet and clean. Accepting others is what our world needs!

One of my favorite books. Ever.

I loved every aspect of this story. I fell in love with the characters, truly felt like so much time had passed and there was a hearty foundation to the relationship between Xander Bowen and Holly. It made the story as a whole more real. I was a little iffy on the narrator at first, but she grew on me quick. The only real criticism on this story is that sometimes it was difficult to decipher what was dialogue and what was inner text. Besides that, I adored Keeping Up Appearances and concede that the story was made even better by the narrator.

Amazing story made better with a great narrator!

I already know and love the story but the narration gave it so much more!
The accent was so much fun to listen to and the narrator was smooth and really made the story come to life!

This is definitely going to become a book I will revisit often :)

great YA novel

it's very similar to "to all the boys i've loved before" but definitely not a copy. it had it's own unique spin to it.

Teen drama taken to an excruciating level

I like the performance and liked the sophistication of the dialogue, but the plot was about self-involved people who were obsessed with their non problems. Endless parking then, rehashing feeling and repeating the same thought and actions and mistakes until you just wanted to scream: shut up! Stop thinking! Make a damn choice! Sorry I didn't chuck it mid way through.

Just a sweet feel good Romantic Comedy!!

I can't say enough good things about this book! I really felt like I was watching a sweet romantic comedy and actually giggled out loud. I'm crushing on Xander hard! He is adorable, witty, and so charming! Epic story!

So much YA Drama!

If you can't get enough YA romance and drama, then you will love this book!! I finished it in a couple days. Great story, flow, and loved the characters!

Amazing 😉

Nice storyline and a Powerful message
Just listen and fall in love with this book

an 'Okay' book

So I wanted to read this book because of the cute premise, I am a sucker for fake dating stories .. the beginning was really enjoyable and I liked Holly and Xander as characters .. but as the story progressed it became so sexual for no apparent reason .. there were some cute moments dropped here and there but mostly it was a meh for me

The narration was alright but I did struggle with her super low voice when she voice Xander, also there were little emotions through out her performance