Top Tip: Donāt put out an online ad offering your services as a fake date. Someone will take you up on it.
And it wonāt just be for one night.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I ended up being Mason Jacksonās fake girlfriend.
He didnāt even want me to be. Noāhis sister was solely responsible for me being his date for his ten-year high school reunion.
Now, sheās responsible for telling his parents our relationship is real.
We have no choice. We have to act like this isnāt all a mistake, like itās not all fake, like weāre totally, completely, utterly, head-over-heels in love with each other.
Simple, right?
Wrong.
Title: | The Accidental Girlfriend |
Author: | Emma Hart |
Series: | n/a |
Pages: | 258 |
Genre(s): | Contemporary Romantic Comedy |
Trope(s): | Fake Relationship |
Point of View: | |
Location: | US |
HEA: | āļø |
Release Date: | 25th June, 2019 |
Fantastically funny
Iāve enjoyed other Emma Hart books that Iāve read but this one just made her an auto-buy author for me.
The Accidental Girlfriend is a standalone novel thatās fairly short – at 258 pages – but it really packs a punch.
Fed up of being taken to task for being single, a drunken sesh with her friends leads Lauren to post an ad on the internet advertising her services as a fake date. No money involved! In a roundabout way, thatās where Mason comes in, looking for a date for his high-school reunion.
So while itās a well-used plot of a fake relationship – from the get-go, itās got something different. It never feels like something youāve read before. Itās fresh, interesting and itās absolutely hilarious. Seriously – I donāt remember another book where Iāve highlighted so much of the text – or laughed so hard at the brutally honest, yet still hysterical comments, wit and banter.
Lauren is my spirit animal. Sheās the kind of character that is honest, snarky, sarcastic and confident – and sheās written in a way that you just want to be her. I can imagine itās very hard to write a heroine with those attributes that readers will actually like. Ms Hart didnāt just do that for me – because I LOVED Lauren. I want to be Lauren.
And Mason was the same. He was funny, sexy and the perfect partner and foil for Lauren. They just worked as a pair, along with having wonderful chemistry. Due to āthe rulesā there was a long time before the pair gave into their feelings for one another – but it was a ride full of sexual tension and, sure, frustration. For Mason, Lauren and myself! The sex was also fantastic in the book but, as we would expect, also damned funny.
There wasnāt a thing about this book that I didnāt enjoy. And not to get all deep and shit, but it really has a positive message about finding the right person to love the real you – sarcasm, sass and all. But if you go for misbehaving OAPs, asshole cats, wickedly funny banter all wrapped up in a sexy, romantic bow – then I cannot recommend this book highly enough to you.
Emma Hart is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over thirty novels and has been translated into several different languages.
She is a mother, wife, lover of wine, Pink Goddess, and valiant rescuer of wild baby hedgehogs.
Emma prides herself on her realistic, snarky smut, with comebacks that would make a PMS-ing teenage girl proud.
Yes, really. She’s that sarcastic.
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