Reviewed by True

TITLE: Takers: MM Billionaire Romance

SERIES: Upper Echelons #2

AUTHOR: Casey Cox

PUBLISHER: Self-Published

LENGTH: 260 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 7, 2023

BLURB:

I don’t date or do relationships. Love just isn’t my thing.

But sex? Oh, I’m so into sex, I named my hugely successful podcast Intosexual. Get it?

One man I never expected to be a listener is gorgeous billionaire CEO, Bremmer Palmer. The guy who never cracks a smile, is super uptight, and gives off total control freak alpha boss vibes.

But he’s also the guy who doesn’t flinch when I ask him to join me at a tantric workshop. Or from jumping on board my crazy suggestion we start fake dating.

He needs to improve his corporate image to please his board—how 1950s, right?—and I’m curious to see what all the fuss is about dating. Purely for research purposes, of course.

A couple of short weeks fooling the media with a few public dates turns into a few months. Before you know it, we’ve been fake dating for over a year.

Except, things don’t feel so fake anymore. The dates aren’t for show anymore. And the sex? Nothing fake there, either.

It leaves me feeling the last thing I ever wanted.

Like I want this.
Like I want more.
Like I want him.

Too bad I’ve screwed up any chance of that happening. Once Bremmer finds out the secret I’ve been keeping from him, this whole fake relationship will be over. For real.

TAKERS is a fake relationship billionaire MM romance with some Pretty Woman vibes thrown in for fun! It features an uptight CEO, a free-spirited podcaster, a tantric workshop, hot tub shenanigans, Robbie and Dunlop’s wedding, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

REVIEW:

Gosh, what a marvelous read!!

Bremmer Palmer is thirty-four and awfully rich, he’s the CEO of a multibillion-dollar property development firm. Not his first choice but devastating circumstances made it necessary.

Kelsey is younger, there’s some humor around this, so you’ll have to find out for yourself, he’s a podcaster of Intosexual and it’s quite successful. When they met at a gala with mutual friends, Kelsey invited Bremmer to a tantric masturbation workshop, and Bremmer said yes. Well, that changed some things between them.

Kelsey doesn’t do relationships, he shudders at the idea, that fact intrigues Bremmer.
The board members want Bremmer in a relationship and Kelsey offers to be his fake boyfriend.

“We Palmer men are well-known for many things, and being emotionally available isn’t one of them.”

To appear convincing they have to have some pre-fake dates. Oh, boy!
Kelsey stubbornly avoids thinking about feelings, even when they exchange a kiss.
Bremmer can’t get why, being straight, he’s obsessed with Kelsey, he can’t, it’s F.A.K.E. fake fake fake, there, when you say it enough you’ll gonna believe it! That’s also exactly what allergic-to-relationship Kelsey wants. Fake it will be.

What follows is downright delightful and complicated, they even get to sexual encounters.
With no strings of course, and not getting clingy, you know, Kelsey is allergic!

God, there are many many hilarious moments. I laughed out loud, hahaha.
Crazy author, what were you thinking?

The story was just right, from all angles, and awesomely put together, it was a delight!!
There are serious parts, of course there are, people become who they are because of life.
It’s all wonderfully layered, nothing superficial, well developed. There are feelings and moments I can’t talk about because it would spoil, but believe me the buildup was marvelously done.
Yes, dear readers, we got ourselves a winner.

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