SuitabookFaking perfect
Rebecca Phillips
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside your teenager if they would welcome it. Pause when the story turns to home pressures or relationship boundaries, and let them choose whether to discuss those themes or simply continue.
- Themes
- Secrecy and dating: Lexi sets rules for keeping her relationship with Tyler quiet, while Ben is her unrequited crush and later asks her out. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Family pressures: Lexi’s mother is drinking and struggling to pay bills; her father has been absent for years and is back in the picture. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The plot includes a mother who drinks and struggles to pay bills, an absent father returning, and a secret relationship. The relationship is described as happening behind closed doors; its precise nature is not specified.