Fake Skating

#137 in Young adult

Fake Skating

Lynn Painter

First published 2025Original language ENYoung adult

8.08.0 / 10
Score out of 1069 ratingsConfidence 32%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#137 of 200 in Young adult ahead of 32% of the category
381
Pages
about 7 h
Reading time

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About the book

From the no. 1 international bestselling author of Better than the Movies, childhood sweethearts reunite in a hockey-loving town where romance is about to heat up the ice. From play dates on the playground to sneaking into movie theatres, Dani and Alec were inseparable as kids. Until Dani moved away. Years later, Dani is back in Minnesota, and exited to reconnect with the nerdy and comforting Alec. But teenage Alec is NOTHING like the boy she remembers. He's the hockey STAR in a town where hockey players are worshipped as gods – and he loves it. When one thing leads to another and Dani and Alec find themselves thrown together and playing the role of boyfriend and girlfriend, “complicated” becomes an understatement. In this Minnesota town, hockey may rule, but romance is about to take its place. A swoony, boy-next-door fake dating romance from the New York Times bestseller, Lynn Painter.

Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.3 across 69 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 32% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 8.0 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Hardcover8.369 100%

Frequently asked

What age is Fake Skating for?

Fake Skating sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 381 pages — shorter than 68% of the ranked books in Young adult.

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