Just Play Pretend

Just Play Pretend
by Jennifer Ann Shore

Synopsis of the book from Amazon:
My acting coach says I’m destined for greatness. My parents say they’re proud of me no matter what. The social media trolls say I’m nothing more than a failed child star. Everyone says what they think, but no one knows who I really am or what I want.
Even me.
I’ve spent eighteen years of my life pretending to be other people, but when Cole Keller moves in next door, I get a major reality check. I don’t know if it’s his arrogance, our proximity this summer, or whatever he’s hiding, but I’m drawn to him.
I’m convinced stardom is in my past, but the more time I spend with Cole under the night sky, I wonder if it’s actually my present—and my future.
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In this latest, and a close second to greatest, book by Jennifer Ann Shore, we find Allie and Cole falling for each other, but not in the typical boy meets girl fashion. They are both damaged by things in their past and Cole catches Allie in his aunt's pool one night just going for a float. You see, Allie is supposed to go off to college in the fall but she's never really gotten over the acting bug that caught her young, but left her face-first on the ground at an award show when she was younger. 
Cole is in town due to a family crisis and he is trying to heal his wounds and just escape the rich and famous lifestyle he's accustomed to in NYC when he volunteers for the local community theater take on Alice in Wonderland and happens to be living next door to the now star of the play.
I thought that book was a great way to toss a little YA romance into a story about what it is really like to fall in love with yourself after a devastating blow. About what it's like to overcome that fear and self-doubt that comes with the teenage years. And what it's like to come out STRONGER on the other side. 
Thank you Jennifer Ann Shore for the gifted ARC copy. I enjoyed this one bunches@!
Can't wait to read what you write next!