4 fake-relationship stars
And to find out he has a Jacob’s ladder? Good LAWD, I’m in!! (Extra points for it 🤷🏻♀️, because, well, I’m intrigued 😮💨).
Also, the audiobook is duet narration 👏🏻 my FAVORITE kind.
The prologue opens up with Silas coming home from a game and finding his girlfriend cheating with two other people. He breaks up with her and makes it a point not to trust easily anymore- no more serious relationships (not to mention he spent a decade with her).
Two years later, a random woman comes up to him and asks him to pretend to be her boyfriend so she can save face in front of her ex who’s dating her nemesis. Silas (31) decides to go along with it and kiss Ollie (21) to help her out. She tells him she owes him.
When he finds out his cheating ex is going to be working with the Agitators, he decides to take Ollie up on her offer. He needs her to fake date him so he can show his ex he’s moved on (and so she doesn’t try to do anything with him) and, in return, he’ll help Ollie on her journalism assignment that she’s required to do for the internship she’s doing, since she has to write about hockey players, the sport, and the Agitators.
But, both of them start developing real feelings 👀
What I loved/liked: Possible Spoilers
—the 🔥. MQ delivers. We get sooo many teasing scenes 👀. The sauna scene was 😮💨 and nothing even happened 😅. That’s the best placement of towels I’ve ever seen 🤷🏻♀️. Ollie’s very open smexually and Silas appreciates it 💁🏻♀️. When she sits on him at a hockey event and gets him… “excited”, he has to get her back in her dorm room. And oh LAWD 🥵. A hand necklace? A commanding “swallow”? 🫠- yeah. That was me 💦. It’s on the slow burn side- home run happens past 70%, and it was sooooo worth it 😅💦😉
—cereal eating FTW: that was her bday present and it was good🥵 he eats his breakfast well 😮💨 even when she reciprocates, he has to reciprocate back again😉🤷🏻♀️🔥.
—duuuurty mouths. On both. Obviously, I love his more 😉 thanks the LAWD that he does a lot of it
—Jacob’s ladder. It needs its own bullet 🫠 I should add that neither are afraid of using toys 😅. Fiiiine by me 💁🏻♀️(I’m whispering this… but I feel like it would huuuurt 🤣😅)
—the 🤣 moments. Omg. I laughed and snorted MANY times 😅. I know many found their “meet cute” stupid and too convoluted, but I was cracking up 😭. The way the narrators acted during this scene made it even better 🤣😅. Even the text messages between Ollie/Ross and Silas/Posey had me giggling. The last MQ I read before this was Runaway Groomsman, so I appreciated the laughs (since I wasn’t laughing much in that one)
—many options ❤️ Silas’s amazing at giving Ollie options- from her sandwiches, to her coffee, to her creamers, and I found it super cute 🥹
—how JP Silas is 😅👏🏻. I loooove when the MMC gets jealous, and here, Silas get jealous and possessive 😈 MINEMINEMINE 💁🏻♀️
—I’m a suckaaa for a man in a suit 🫠 whyyy? I don’t know 🤷🏻♀️ I just know I was here for all the times Silas takes off his jacket… and well, more after 🥵
—the side characters. I loved Ross 🥰 he’s such a good friend. Not to mention Posey and Pacey. The way Posey tells Sarah off was award-winning 👏🏻. I really love all of these characters ❤️
—previous books’ MCs appearances from other series. Besides the other characters from this series, we had the Cane brothers (all three delicious men) plus Ryot and even had mentions of Canoodle, CA (Runaway Groomsman). I definitely found myself smiling and feeling like a fan girl 🤣
—the OW smackdowns. Since there are TWO ow (one is Silas’s ex, the other one a coworker that’s dating Ollie’s ex), I luuurved when they got put in their place 😮💨. I normally don’t like the FMC taking out the trash, but I liked it here 👏🏻
What I didn’t like/wanted more of: SPOILERS
—lack of a grovel 😑. Look. I get it. The “betrayal” scene (not OP-related) was tough. Silas felt betrayed, but he’s so upset he doesn’t let Ollie explain herself much. The way he treats her was HARSH 😬. The male narrator did an amazing job being pisssssed in the audiobook, so for Ollie to not let him stew in his regret juices when he finds out the truth irritated me 😑. She loses so much and she takes him back so quickly. Some might find what he “does” to get her back enough. But not me 😐😑. I wanted more. I DID like that we see how much he’s suffering, but I wanted to see more of it 🤣. I will say- I looove how Ross stands up to Silas and tells him off 💁🏻♀️that’s why I love him 🥹
—more of an epilogue. It was too quick for me. What happened to Roberts? To Candace? To Sarah? Before the end of the book, it’s implied in the Jock Report that there’s going to be repercussions for what happened, but we don’t see it. It left a bitter taste in my mouth 😐😒. As for Sarah, I hope she gets an incurable disease 🤣
—fart face? Really 🤦🏻♀️🙄. It was suuuuuper immature! I have an 18 year-old niece and she wouldn’t have ever mentioned that as a possible nickname 🙄 and Ollie’s 21
—how does Ross and Ollie know Silas has a d piercing??? Ross’s like “I bet he’s pierced”
Like…
Hooooooowww?? Is there a universal d piercing sign 🤔? Do they walk a certain way?
Because, if that’s the case, then I’m gonna be VERY observant of men I see walking 🤣👀… don’t be surprised if you see me ogling men’s gaits 👀.
I also found it intriguing how Ollie and wasn’t intimidated by it 😅. I’m glad Silas found his match 🤣
Overall, I loved it ❤️
⚠️safety squad ⚠️
-no cheating*/sharing
-cheating: the H was in a relationship and caught his previous girlfriend (OW1) cheating on him
-OWD: the H’s ex (OW1) is working for his team. She causes some drama. The H doesn’t want her, but there was a quick minute where the h thought he DID have feelings. OW2 works with the h and causes lots of drama in her job- she’s also in a relationship with the h’s ex
-OMD: the h’s ex works with her and is in a relationship with one of her colleagues
-hand necklace/dual dirty talk/phone sex/edging/spanking
-HEA/epilogue