3.5 stars

i'll be honest, i read this book mainly because of the cute cover. so i didn't really know much about it going in.

you can imagine my shock when i found out it's a novella.

playing house is actually very cute. i liked it enough to think i should round up my star rating. the only problem i have with this is that it has no buildup. at all. we're almost kind of plunged into the middle and we just go along with it.

which i kind of feel bad about by the way because i thought the characters had their own distinct voices despite the sheer shortness of it. it would have been so much better had we gotten to know them and their world and the side characters more than we did.

but i liked it, truly. not the most memorable anything, but it's a good way to spend time if you want something cute and wholesome (and mature, by the way) to read to pass the time.

both oliver and fay are reasonable and mature characters that are honestly quite hard to come by in the chicklit and adult novels i've read through the span of time i've been reading novels of the said genres. the main conflict between the main characters are handled well and found a good resolution too.