Claire is just way too anal for my levels. The legality of their farce to sell the book makes me laugh. Had they been caught out at all heads would have rolled and they would have been sue for false pretenses and then some. Just no way it would have floated….. but that being said still a fun book. 🤷🏻‍♀️ ( )

I loved Claire and Lana. I especially loved Claire and Lana together. Mostly I loved Lana. But Claire got in there by mid-book.

Stuff I loved: humor, chemistry, the strangers to true love thing, Claire's family, all the good squishy feels that the growing relationship gave me.

Stuff I didn't love: cameos from many characters appearing in the Hollywood series.

I loved lots more than I didn't love. And I'll likely read it again.

Would rate it 4.5 if I could but dropped it down because of the cameos that rubbed me the wrong way. ( )

This was such a fun and sweet read! It's basically about a "fauxmance" - so nothing new, but it's so charmingly told that I enjoyed it. I constantly laughed out loud because of some dialogues.

One of the main characters is Claire, a psychologist who specialises in couples' therapy. She is a perfectionist, has some OCD, and is wealthy. The other is Lana, a desperate actress looking for new roles and working as a barista on the side. Unlike Claire, she is laid back and lives from day to day.

Of course, their paths cross when Claire needs a fake girlfriend to seal a book deal. Who wants to buy a book on relationship tips when the author can't keep her own relationships intact?

The two are such opposites that there is always friction, which the author tells amusingly. In the end, though, the two characters complement each other. And I loved how they ended up embracing each other's habits (positive and negative). SO CUTE!

Of course, the whole plot is predictable, but the characters are so entertainingly narrated that you fall in love with them and want to read on and on. Also, I would like to note that I liked how the author ended the story, because often "fauxmances" end the same way.

I can only recommend this book to anyone who likes stories about faux relationships and needs something to cheer them up during the pandemic.

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i listened to the audiobook version and this was such a fun fake dating/fake relationship, but whoops we fall in love story. i didn't love the voice that the narrator used for Lana, but that was just a personal preference and didn't affect my enjoyment of the story. ( )

Review to come! ( )