Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Fake Out
SERIES: Fake Boyfriend #1
AUTHOR: Eden Finley
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 297 pages
RELEASE DATE: March 15, 2018
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Maddox
The reason I rarely go home is three simple words: I’m a liar.
When the pressure to marry my childhood sweetheart became too much, I told her I was gay and then fled to New York like my ass was on fire.
Now, five years later and after a drunken encounter, I find myself invited to her wedding. And I have to bring my boyfriend—the boyfriend who doesn’t exist because I’m straight.
At least, I think I am. Meeting the guy I’m bribing to be my boyfriend for the weekend makes me question everything about myself.
Damon
When my sister asks me to pretend to be some straight guy’s boyfriend, my automatic response is to say no. It’s because of guys like him people don’t believe me when I tell them I’m gay.
But Maddox has something I need.
After an injury that cost me my baseball career, I’m trying to leave my playing days behind and focus on being the best sports agent I can be. Forty-eight hours with my sister’s best friend in exchange for a meeting with a possible client. I can do this.
I just wish he wasn’t so hot. Or that he didn’t kiss like he means it.
Wait … why is the straight guy kissing me?
REVIEW:
I couldn’t imagine ever have to be someone’s fake anything. Especially if you’re really attracted to the other person. Fortunately, in this book it worked out. It took some major adjustments and ‘coming to Jesus’ moments, but what’s a story without some angst.
Maddox has always felt out of place. Like he never belonged anywhere. He even looked different from the rest of his family. That’s why when in high school his girlfriend was pushing for more, he decided to tell her he was gay. He wasn’t but commitment made him crawl out of his skin. College changed his thinking on a few things but he was still itchy. When he had to go back for his ex’s wedding, his best friend decided to see if her brother would help by being Maddox’s fake boyfriend so people would still be live the like. What Maddox didn’t know, though, was that Damon would get under his skin in a way no one has ever done. And make him rethink everything he thought about himself. Damon wasn’t much better. A past ‘relationship’ made him jumpy about new ones now, but Maddox made him want for more. But how do either overcome what their pasts have dictated?
Both of these guys just…I don’t know. Maddox I kind of wanted to berate at first. I mean telling your girlfriend you’re gay to get out of the commitment is a dick move, BUT when I found out how things really were and how he felt, I understood him better. And then I hated life for him then. Not that it was horrible, but when you don’t feel right in your own skin. When you feel something is missing…..it just makes life so hard. I think I’d be a bit of a commitment-phobe myself. And things were hard with Damon in some instances. To be open and vulnerable with someone when you haven’t even been honest with yourself. And with Damon, his own issues made things just as hard.
You can’t ever expect to go into a relationship without baggage. It just don’t happen. Even if you’re both virgins or something. There’s something somewhere that will alter your thinking a bit. Or how you act in certain situations. For Damon, being so hurt by someone the way he was….yeah I wouldn’t be so quick to jump into anything either. And both of them ran at difficult times. It’s never easy. They had communication issues. You name it. But when something in your life feels finally right, no matter how scary it may be, it just might be time to fight for it and do it.
This was a really good book. I liked it. And finding out who’s story is next? Yeah I’m all ready for that one.
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