Cora and Nandini, aka Karina’s friend squad, her sisterhood!! I am glad I have always had (and still have) friends like that.Dadu, Karina’s grandmom, who is oh-so-awesome and reminds me of my own super-cool grandmoms! (and yes, she deserves the bold font!).Ace is the boy who is sometimes saccharine sweet but overall the kind of boyfriend a teen me would have loved, or at this point in time, would love my own child to have.She has her strengths (well, she does love words and etc) and weaknesses too both are portrayed well resulting in a believable, relate-able character. Karina aka Myra to her family is a girl who loves words, books, poetry, and all of it while being oh-so-real with anxiety attacks.I loved very many things about it so rather than have a verbose paragraphs, I am going to list it all. It generated wide smiles, teary-eyes, that clenching of your heart feel, and brought about that warm embrace of a hug through its pages. T-minus twenty-eight days until everything returns to normal-but what if Karina no longer wants it to? My ThoughtsĬute, real, cute, tugging-at-heart-strings, cu… oh, well, I said that twice already! But that is how I feel about this book. Though Karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back. But Ace Clyde does everything right-he brings her coffee in the mornings, impresses her friends without trying, and even promises to buy her a dozen books (a week) if she goes along with his fake-dating facade.

Pretending to date him? Out of the question. Tutoring the school’s resident bad boy was already crossing a line. Instead, one simple lie unravels everything. When her parents go abroad to Bangladesh for four weeks, Karina expects some peace and quiet. Keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents’ rules-even if it means sacrificing her dreams. How do you make one month last a lifetime? Title: Counting Down With You Author: Tashie Bhuiyan Length: 464 Pages Genre: Teen and YA Fiction/Mental Health, Multicultural, Own Voices Publisher: Inkyard Press Original edition (May 4, 2021) DescriptionĪ reserved Bangladeshi teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date her school’s resident bad boy.

Counting down with you book review