The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
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3.7 • 55 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Pretty in Pink meets Anna and the French Kiss in this charming romantic comedy
Ella is nearly invisible at the Willing School, and that's just fine by her. She's got her friends - the fabulous Frankie and their sweet cohort Sadie. She's got her art - and her idol, the unappreciated 19th-century painter Edward Willing. Still, it's hard being a nobody and having a crush on the biggest somebody in the school: Alex Bainbridge. Especially when he is your French tutor, and lessons have started becoming, well, certainly more interesting than French ever has been before. But can the invisible girl actually end up with a happily ever after with the golden boy, when no one even knows they're dating? And is Ella going to dare to be that girl?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Artistic 16-year-old Ella Marino is a scholarship student at an elite Philadelphia private school where she has two impossible crushes: one is Edward, the long-dead nephew of her school's founder and a fellow artist; the other is Alex, a popular boy whose connection to Ella grows after he is assigned to be her French tutor. But Ella's best friend does not trust the handsome rich boy, and even Ella fears she may be Alex's "dirty little secret." Jensen (Falling in Love with English Boys) gives readers a full sense of Ella's life, from her loud, loving family that runs a local Italian restaurant to the honors thesis she is writing about Edward; in addition to her imagined conversations with Edward, Ella spends time searching through his archive, where she makes a surprising discovery. In contrast to all this vivid detail, side characters including Ella's quirky best friends feel thinly drawn. Readers may grow impatient with the meandering story arc, but they will find Ella's exchanges with Alex, Edward, and her warm family enough to propel them through. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
Unique and Intresting
I loved how the author brought beauty into it. I also loved the romance between the two characters. Unfortunately this book is the kind where you get confused and bored in the beginning, but throughout it-and I promise you this-you will enjoy it. Good read, I would definitely recommend this to my friends(: READ IT!(;
Hum
This book was hard to get through and had a lot of excess information that was not essential to the story, plus it did a lot of telling and not showing and that was super obvious, this took me a lot longer to read than normal because it got boring and dragged on. Plus there were some unnecessary characters as well, what point did they play. There was too much on Edward willing, who I didn't really care for at all. And not enough development between Alex and Ella.
So not worth the money
Not very entertaining!! I was bored while reading it!!'