Despite all of this, Ace is sweeter than the lollipops he loves to pop in his mouth. I really didn’t like her parents but I understand their concern and that they just want the best life possible for her.Īce also has major family problems: a dad who only pays attention when he messes up, a mom who left for Italy and a brother who likes to make his life a living hell. Karina also has anxiety and every time her parents ask her to do something or comment about her, it just gets worse. Karina doesn’t want to disappoint them and so she just quietly follows. Her parents are conservative and worry about her future so they force her into becoming a doctor (their idea of a stable job) and ignore her love and talent for the english language. She’s a quiet and reserved person with a strong and passionate personality. But he is also the perfect boyfriend?! He gets her coffee order right, is nice to her friends, promises to buy her 12 books a week and even helps her with her anxiety.

Tutoring him is a risk already but when he tells his family that they’re dating, it gets even worse. When her english teacher asks her to tutor another student, Ace Clyde, her plans go down the drain. When her parents leave town for the month, she sees an opportunity to spend more time with her friends and maybe spend more time alone, reading. Karina lives the typical life of a girl with strict Asian parents be a doctor, have the earliest curfew ever and get good grades in everything. It was a total page turner and I loved every bit of it.

I kept hearing great things about it and so when it was released I just had to get it. I’ll follow you wherever you go.” – Tashie Bhuiyan, Counting Down With You Review T-minus twenty-eight days until everything returns to normal-but what if Karina no longer wants it to?Īlready I can imagine Ace teasing me but instead he smiles and says, “I’m thunder. 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? A 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 tashie bhuiyan