The Fill-In Boyfriend

A book I chose to indulge myself in last quarter was a romantic fiction novel, written by Kasie West, titled The Fill-In Boyfriend. The book is about a high school teen who is broken up with her college boyfriend on her prom night, but must find a replacement immediately in order to fulfill her story that she has a boyfriend in college.  After being able to find a boy quickly, she tries to make her now ex-boyfriend jealous by getting into a relationship with him. Throughout the novel, none of the characters really grabbed my attention, but if I had to chose one that I could connect with the most, I would say it was the antagonists' younger sister, Bec. Bec is the younger sister of Hayden, who is the fill-in boyfriend to the main character Gia Montgomery. Hayden agrees to be Gia's "boyfriend", but the reason being is he is trying to make his ex-girlfriend jealous.Throughout the novel we see Hayden's younger sister, Bec, being sassy, funny, rude, and forcefully honest with Gia, who is in her history class, and is now "dating" her older brother. I would say that Bec is not fully a dynamic character, but she is not a static character either; the reason being that she loathes Gia in the beginning, but ends up not hating her completely. Bec definitely helped the story by adding real life emotions. Since Bec wasn't a main character, I didn't see much major development in her, but I read that she was the one who influenced her brother and fake girlfriend to go to Hayden's ex-girlfriends party, where Hayden and Gia would eventually become closer and somewhat ignite a flame in their relationship. I somewhat connected with Bec because she is a young high school student with an older brother, like myself. She is protective over her older brother in his relationship because she doesn't want him to get hurt again. It's funny that that was the case with the story because something super similar just happened to me where I was being a super overprotective with my own brother. Overall, I enjoyed the novel and the characters in it and would recommend it to anyone who wants a romantic somewhat cheesy love story. f Ounny, rude, blunt, sassy, and honestfunny, rude, blunt, sassy, and honestBI