The Dating Game
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The Social Network gets a romantic twist in this fresh and engaging new read from the author of Frat Girl, Kiley Roache. Experience the whirlwind ups and downs of college life in this authentic and entertaining new novel! When a notoriously difficult class for future entrepreneurs leads to three freshmen developing the next "it" app for dating on college campuses, all hell breaks loose... Type A control freak Sara lives by her color-coordinated Post-it notes. Rich boy Braden wants out from under his billionaire father's thumb. Scholarship student Roberto can't afford for his grades to drop. When the three are forced to work together in one of the university's most difficult classes, tension rises to the breaking point...until, shockingly, the silly dating app they create proves to be the most viable project in class. Late nights of app development, interest from investors and unexpected romance are woven into a true-to-life college drama that explores what it means to really connect online and IRL.
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I have mixed feelings on this one.
Overall, I enjoyed The Dating Game. I liked the characters, the plot, and once I started reading it was hard to put down. However, the characters and their relationships didn't feel fully developed.
I think part of that issue was the time jumps between chapters. A chapter would end, and I expected the next one would pick up at the same spot from a different perspective. Instead, it'd be the next day or a few weeks later. It seemed like opportunities to build the characters were missed in favor of sticking to the timeline of the app events.
The relationships were also a source of mixed feelings. On the one hand, I liked how it turned out. On the other, I thought it might a different direction, and all three would get together. As much as I like Robbie and Sara, it definitely followed the cliché route – you could see a love triangle coming from the first paragraph of the description.
It was a fun, enjoyable book overall, but I think it had a chance to be better.
