Faking Ms. Right
Ratings14
Average rating3.8
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Ratings14
Average rating3.8
“When I kissed you last night, I wasn’t pretending.”
Everly Dalton is a walking, talking, martini-drinking dating disaster. Forget kissing frogs. She can’t even get past the first date. But at work, she’s a badass—the longest-running assistant billionaire Shepherd Calloway has ever had. Her coworkers wonder how she handles the big bad wolf—and never gets bit.
Shepherd Calloway isn’t interested in being anyone’s sugar daddy. Tired of women who only want him for his money, he swears off dating, determined to focus on running his empire. Until his gold-digging ex hits him where it hurts, putting him in a difficult position.
His solution—to have Everly pose as his live-in girlfriend—is obviously crazy. But the timing is uncanny. It just so happens Everly needs a favor from her boss—a big and awkward one—and this could ensure everyone gets what they want.
Besides, Everly can totally survive a few months of faux romance.
Except there’s a problem. Shepherd is supposed to be a single-minded, unemotional robot boss. Not an actual human with a heart and morning wood. Between the awkward bed-sharing and tingly fake dates, lines are blurring. And as Everly gets to know the real Shepherd, she discovers there’s more to the man behind the bank account.
And faking it gets all too real.
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Perfectly adequate and I don't remember a single thing about it except the fake relationship didn't last long enough.
“I love you. I think I've loved you since the moment you stepped out of that car in that goddamn red dress. And I've fallen a little bit more in love with you every day. I should have told you a hundred times, but I'm an emotionally stunted robot.”
I really love this book and the characters.
I love Everly personality and her relationship with the girls, please, Nora and Hazel are amazing. I can't wait to see more of them. And I adore when Nora and Hazel going to talk with him about Everly
“He turned back, meeting my gaze, a disarming openness in his eyes. Right there, in that exact moment, I did a terrible, terrible thing. I fell in love with my boss.”(Just to let you know what you might be about to read. ;-) ) This was another quick and easy read just to relax. I wanted something amusing and entertaining and this “romantic comedy” was just the thing. “Faking Ms. Right” is about Everly, the sunshiny assistant of Shepherd Calloway. Shepherd mimes the cold-hearted robot but is, of course, a great person deep inside. To get back at an ex-girlfriend who now dates his own father (yikes!), he manages to convince Everly not only to fake being his girlfriend but to even move in with him. This being a romantic comedy what has to happen happens and they fall in love. Since it's a “hot romantic comedy” the story encompasses all kinds of encounters in some detail... This is by no means a demanding or sophisticated book but both Everly and Shepherd are fun and irresistibly likeable and the chemistry between both feels just right. A quick dose of Everly? “The truth was, I liked making people happy. It was my catnip. Getting someone grouchy to smile? Best high ever.” Yes, it's clichéd and so is the entire book – and this was just what I expected and wanted. Shepherd is somewhat possessive and neanderthal but, hey, I enjoyed even that: “But there was a deeply primal part of me that wanted to insist—no, command—that she wear my ring at all other times. Running, shopping, out with her friends drinking martinis—I wanted that ring on her finger.” The story is told from both Everly's and Shepherd's perspectives and mostly switches between them from chapter to chapter which often distracts me but was executed perfectly in this case. The only thing I found somewhat annoying is the author's excessive use of the “f-bomb” - and I usually don't care about that at all but once per sentence at times is a bit much even for me. Ultimately, this is nothing you have to read but if you (occasionally) enjoy a romantic comedy in the cinema or on TV, you'll feel right at home in this book. Blog Facebook Twitter Instagram
It was a fun book but I knew there was gonna be angst at the end. I didn't like the unecessary third act break-up, and at this point I'd prefer for Everly to take the job and move to Miami. I'm also not a fan of the way the spicy scenes are written, I've honestly read a better-written scenes in fanfiction. The story overall was not bad, but I guess I expected more.
