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Fake Relationship

Release & ARC Review: The Love Plot by Samantha Young

August 29, 2023August 29, 2023 AJ Fake Relationship

  The Love Plot by Samantha Young is live! This is such a gorgeous read! A funny, romantic, utterly charming opposites attract story with two absolutely fantastic characters in a fake romance. I laughed and […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Problem with Perfect (Cedar Point, #3) by Jillian Liota

August 21, 2023April 11, 2024 AJ Age Gap

  The Problem with Perfect by Jillian Liota is live! The fourth book (third full length) in the Cedar Point series, I was so excited to be back into this world with a read that […]

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Review: Anywhere But Here (Hermosa Beach novella) by Jillian Liota

August 6, 2023August 6, 2023 AJ Fake Relationship

Buy:  Amazon Review 3.5 stars This is a short and sweet story, a fake relationship for two of the very minor side characters from the Hermosa Beach series (you could easily read this one as a […]

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Review: Flirt (Carmichael Family, #1) by Adriana Locke

July 16, 2023 AJ Fake Relationship

Buy:  Amazon Review 4 stars The first book in the Carmichael Family this series, this book is a great introduction to a family that I know I am going to love, and a fun friends-to-lovers/fake relationship […]

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Review: When I Fall (Alabama Summer, #3) by J. Daniels

May 14, 2023 AJ Epic Romance

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review 5 stars! This is such a gorgeous read! A sweet, funny, sexy and emotional romance with fantastic characters, epic chemistry, and a whole lot of feels. This is the third book in […]

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ARC Review: Pick Six (Seattle Phantom Football, #1) by Maggie Rawdon

May 8, 2023May 4, 2023 AJ Drama

  Pick Six by Maggie Rawdon is now available! This is a steamy, fake dating, sports romance, you won’t want to miss!   Amazon  |  Special Edition Paperback   Blurb What’s worse than playing a […]

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Blog Tour & ARC Review: Unexpectedly Mine (Unexpectedly in Love, #2) by Erin Hawkins

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 AJ Fake Relationship

  Forget holy matrimony, I’m going to lower my expectations for one night. Unexpectedly Mine, an all-new steamy and swoon-filled marriage-of-convenience romantic comedy from bestselling author Erin Hawkins is available now!   Amazon  |  Amazon Worldwide  […]

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Release & ARC Review: Duke: Faking the Play (Boston Tomcats, #3) by Kayley Loring & Connor Crais

March 30, 2023March 29, 2023 AJ Celebrities

  Duke: Faking the Play by Kayley Loring and Connor Crais is live! An opposites attract, celebrity/sports fake romance that is funny and sexy, with epic banter and chemistry, and a gorgeously heartfelt romance. It’s […]

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Review: Play Fake (Plays & Penalties, 1) by Maggie Rawdon

March 20, 2023 AJ Enemies-to-Lovers

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback Review 2.5 stars The first book in the Plays & Penalties series, this is an enemies-to-lovers, college sports romance that is a well-written debut, but that frustrated me no end with the characters’ inability […]

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Release & ARC Review: Jasper Vale (The Edens, #4) by Devney Perry

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 AJ Fake Relationship

  Jasper Vale, the fourth book in The Edens series by Devney Perry is live! What a fantastic read! A sexy, emotional, and gorgeously romantic story with an accidental marriage, a fake relationship, a strong […]

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Release & ARC Review: How to Lose at Love (Campus Legends, #1) by Sara Ney

January 19, 2023September 15, 2023 AJ Fake Relationship

  How to Lose at Love by Sara Ney is live! A college sports, fake relationship, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers romance that is fun, heartfelt and laugh-out-loud funny. With a strong and feisty heroine and an adorably clueless, […]

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Blog Tour & ARC Review: He’s A Player (San Francisco Strikers, #2) by Stacy Travis

November 16, 2022January 15, 2023 AJ Fake Relationship

  The last time I saw Tim Cheltenham, he was an eighteen-year-old soccer hottie with an irresistible English accent, a painfully gorgeous face, and an enormous . . . ego.   He’s A Player, a spicy […]

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Review: The Marriage Effect (Washington Wolves, #3) by Karla Sorensen

October 23, 2022October 23, 2022 AJ Fake Relationship

Buy:  Amazon Review 3.5 stars This is such a cute read! Chock full of fun tropes, this is a grumpy/sunshine, marriage of convenience, single parent, sports romance that is fun and heartfelt, and full of […]

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Release & ARC Review: King of Wrath (Kings of Sin, #1) by Ana Huang

October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 AJ Billionaire

  King of Wrath by Ana Huang is live! The first book in the Ana Huang’s new Kings of Sin series starts off with an arranged marriage/billionaire romance that is a fabulously decadent read, full […]

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Review: Faked (Ward Sisters, #2) by Karla Sorensen

September 24, 2022October 1, 2022 AJ Fake Relationship

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback Review 4 stars! I love this book! A fun, sexy and romantic forced proximity, fake relationship, good girl/bad boy romance full of chemistry and swoon. This is the second book in the Ward Sisters, […]

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Release & ARC Review: In a Jam (Friendship, Rhode Island, #1) by Kate Canterbary

September 20, 2022February 4, 2025 AJ Fake Relationship

  In a Jam by Kate Canterbary is live! A small-town, slow-burning, friends-to-lovers, single-dad romance with all the feels, I am completely obsessed with these characters, and I absolutely adored this book!   Amazon US  […]

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Review: Blind Side (Red Zone Rivals, #2) by Kandi Steiner

August 14, 2022January 30, 2023 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback Review 4.5 sweet, fun, tropey stars! I love this book! A fake-dating, lessons-in-seduction, friends-to-lovers college sports romance that is fun, sexy, and gorgeously emotional. It made me laugh and made me […]

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Audio Review: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

July 22, 2022July 22, 2022 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review 5 stars! I adore this book! A funny, quirky and sweet grumpy/sunshine, fake-relationship story with a gorgeous, slow burning romance that simmers with chemistry. These characters completely stole […]

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Release & ARC Review: Twisted Lies (Twisted, #4) by Ana Huang

June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 AJ Billionaire

  Twisted Lies, the fourth and final book in the Twisted series by Ana Huang, is live! An intense, chemistry-filled fake-relationship romance with an irresistible, broody antihero, and the woman who is his only weakness. […]

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Review: Give My Everything (Hermosa Beach, #3) by Jillian Liota

June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 AJ Drama

Amazon US  |  Amazon UK  |  Amazon CA  |  Amazon AU B&N  |  Kobo  |  Apple  |  Books2Read  |  Paperback   Blurb Ben Calloway is my new fiancé. When he suggests we get married, I […]

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ARC Review: Court of Blood and Bindings (Fae Isles, #1) by Lisette Marshall

June 18, 2022March 14, 2025 AJ Enemies-to-Lovers

Court of Blood and Bindings by Lisette Marshall The first book in the Fae Isles series, and a 5-star fave!   Releasing Wednesday 22 July Amazon  |  Paperback     Blurb They call him the […]

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Release, Excerpt & ARC Review: Reluctantly Yours (Unexpectedly in Love, #1) by Erin Hawkins

June 6, 2022August 28, 2025 AJ Enemies-to-Lovers

Reluctantly Yours by Erin Hawkins is live! A fun and feisty enemies-to-lovers/fake-relationship romance full of humour, romance, sexy times and sweetness, I loved this one!   Amazon  |  Amazon Worldwide  |  Paperback   Blurb Barrett […]

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Audio Review: Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score

May 8, 2022August 18, 2022 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review 5+ stars! What an amazing read! A fun, sweet, laugh-out-loud yet emotional story with fantastic characters, SO much heart, and a beautiful and passionate small town, grumpy/sunshine, slow […]

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New Release & ARC Review: Beauty and the Baller (Strangers in Love, #1) by Ilsa Madden-Mills

March 29, 2022August 28, 2025 Mel Book News

Beauty and the Baller, an all-new small-town sports romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills is LIVE! Amazon  |  Amazon Worldwide  |  Paperback  |  Audiobook   Blurb An NFL quarterback turned small-town coach […]

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Release & ARC Review: Shenanigans (Brooklyn Hockey, #6) by Sarina Bowen

March 15, 2022November 4, 2024 AJ Fake Relationship

  Shenanigans, the new book in the Brooklyn Bruisers series, is live!   Amazon  |  Apple  |  Kobo  |  Nook  |  Google  |  Audio   Blurb What I meant to do in Vegas: Let my hair down for once and […]

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