#cameron lund

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lmao today's not only dickie's b'day but also two sharks': cameron lund and kasper halttunen

i will call them six-seven-line and wish the happiest birthday to all three🙌

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the 2022 draft boys talking about hockey cards + shane wright struggling to open a pack. (via sportsnet)

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read my full review of heartbreakers and fakers by cameron lund here.

From the author of The Best Laid Plans comes another fresh voiced, hilarious rom-com perfect for fans of Tweet Cute and The Rest of the Story.

Penny Harris just ruined her life.

As one of the most popular girls in school, she’s used to being invited to every party, is dating the Jordan Parker, and can’t wait to rule senior year with her best friend, Olivia. But when Penny wakes up on Jordan’s lawn the morning after his first-day-of-summer bash, she knows something went terribly wrong the night before.

She kissed Kai Tanaka.

Kai, her long-time nemesis. Kai, Olivia’s boyfriend. Penny can’t figure out what could have inspired her to do it–she loves Jordan and she would never hurt Olivia–but one thing’s for sure: freshly dumped, and out a best friend, the idyllic summer she pictured is over.

And despite the fact that Jordan seems to be seeking comfort (and a whole lot more) in Olivia, all Penny can think about is winning him back. Kai wants to save his relationship too, so they come up with a plan: convince their friends that they really do have feelings for each other. After all, no one can resist a good love story, and maybe seeing Penny and Kai together will make Jordan and Olivia change their minds.

But as summer heats up, so does Penny and Kai’s “relationship,” and Penny starts to question whether she’s truly faking it with Kai, if he’s really as terrible as she always thought he was, and if the life she’s fighting so hard to get back is the one she really wants.

my review:

Last year, I unexpectedly really enjoyed The Best Laid Plans, so I was so excited for this author’s next release. Also, it had fake dating and dislike-to-love, so of course I needed to read it. With a fun plot and a lot of character development, Heartbreakers and Fakers was a cute story about finding what really makes you happy.

Penny wakes up on her boyfriend’s lawn with no memory of the party the night before. When she goes inside, her best friend, Olivia, is hostile towards her and her boyfriend, Jordan, breaks up with her. It turns out that Penny had kissed Olivia’s boyfriend Kai, whom she hates. Realizing now that the perfect summer she had planned is ruined, she confronts Kai, who proposes that they fake a relationship to get back into their friends’ good graces and to win Jordan and Olivia back, respectively. Soon, though, Penny realizes that she likes Kai more than she previously thought and that maybe Jordan and Olivia weren’t quite the people she thought they were.

The reason for Penny and Kai fake-dating was a little hard for me to wrap around my head first, but I think the book does a good job of justifying it in the moment. It’s a very messy situation, Penny pretending to date someone who is her (now ex-) boyfriend’s best friend and her best friend’s (now) ex. Olivia and Jordan soon get together too, so whenever they all hang out, it was so weird to me. However, that being said, this book acknowledges the messiness and grows from it. This whole situation puts into perspective how Penny has always viewed her life.

read my full review here.

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This was a wild ride.

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Stereotypes Galore 

The Best Laid Plans, by Cameron Lund

First published: April 7th by Razorbill.

Summary: Keely is the last virgin in her group of friends. She thinks in order to date (and have sex with) her hot new co-worker, she has to have experience and enlists her best friend Andrew for the task.

Things this book is kinda good at: the friends to lovers theme. Things this book could do without: toxic relationships, misogynistic messages, and girls being super mean to each other for no other reason than there needs to be a mean girl and “oh she’s my friend I can be mean to her”, is that the message you want young girls to get?

I’m reading this from the point of view of maturity and adulthood, I know what High School is like and this should not be the takeaway. I think if I had read this while I was a teenager it would have made me (much more) insecure about my choices. And even though the ending kind of fixes it, it doesn’t help that throughout the book you get messages like: “it’s ok if the boy I like tells me not to hang out with my friends”, or “I can’t tell the guy I’m kind of seeing (not really because even that wasn’t discussed seriously) that I’m a virgin because he won’t like me anymore”, “I have to have sex to be a proper, grown woman.

These are messages that young girls (and boys!) should not be reading about. They should know it’s crucial to discuss these things with a potential partner, if you’re embarassed about being a virgin should you even be thinking about having sex? There’s nothing to be embarassed about. And even though, the author tried to get that message through with the ending it reads as Keely being pressured to loose her virginity either way. It should be about the love between these two friends not about the sex. Losing their virginity to each other should be a special and beautiful experience if they love each other, right? They almost had sex in a hotel closet!

Also.. Do you really think being a virgin excuses Andrew’s behaviour of being all “Party Andrew”? You get toxic masculinity throughout the book excused by “oh, it’s High School in a small town, wait until we get to the big city” or “boys will be boys”… Excuse you, there’s the same amount of b***s*** in and out of small towns, being in a city has nothing to do with this. I think the author should have tried to show that even though they live in a small town it doesn’t make it ok for guys to be assholes and for girls to bully each other.

I couldn’t really even see if Andrew and Keely loved each other. What I like about the friends-to-lovers theme is that you can see that evolution, you can see the characters grow. I didn’t see that in this book and it was kind of annoying taking into account it was the whole point. I’m sorry but I’m just so disappointed.

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2026 Reading: Heartbreakers and Fakers by Cameron Lund

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Las (des)ventajas de ser virgen - Cameron Lund (2022)

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