Fake It Till You Bake It

Fun and cute, but I didn't fall in love with any of the characters. I actually can't remember any of their friends' names. This was just a fun read with a little mild spice. Maybe don't read this before or right after a Talia Hibbert book.

 I realize I love any book that's set in a bakery has my heart. Jada & Donovan are so cute and I love they relationships. I adored the chemistry between these two. 

i wanted to love this more than i did because i love the synopsis but i found the heroine absolutely insufferable. i enjoyed the tropes, especially this “masculine” pro football player who runs a bakery but he definitely had a lot of traits i didn't enjoy. they didn't have a ton of chemistry and for having such an interesting premise it wasn't super interesting. i still had a good time but it was unmemorable. 

i really want to love this!!! the characters are flat and annoying and the romance is insta-lovey. it all happened so fast, despite the book saying that it all happened in a couple of months, which means there's a lot of telling instead of showing. the stakes aren't that high and the writing didn't help my case either. i'm so disappointed :(

4.5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. 

The title and the cover originally pulled me in and then I read the synopsis and I knew it was going to be a book I would enjoy. 

I struggled to get into it at first because I wasn't really liking the characters. Jada comes off as a ditzy spoiled rich girl who doesn't care about anything but fashion and looking pretty and I wasn't getting on with Donovan's personality. That being said the further into the book I got the more and more I started liking the characters and the more you find out there is more to them then what meets the eye. 

This is a fake dating, opposites attract romance. I would say there is a little bit of instalust happening as well, but I didn't mind that. With fake dating I always expect something to happen that will break the couple up in the end for them to inevitably get back together a few pages later. There was a lot of things happening that I was sure was going to break them up, but they always stuck together, and I loved that which is why when the breakup still happened it came out of the blue and really didn't make sense to me. 

This book was funny with a little bit of steam thrown in as well as dealing with some hard topics. I hope the author plans to write more books because I would love to get a book for Donovan's other 2 friends as well as Jada's friend. 

We are happy and in love until the last 60 pages????

This was a fun romance set in a cupcake shop between a football player and a woman who was on the equivalent of The Bachelor. Fake dating leads to real feelings, as it tends to happen.