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Playing House
A lesbian romantic comedy romp featuring tropes fake dating, second chance, cottage core bliss, chickens named after the members of ABBA and a smoking hot butch top love interest who cooks. Fox shattered Sasha’s heart and she’s still not over her beautiful butch ex-girlfriend. But Sasha has never known what’s good for her.
When Sasha’s enigmatic and sinfully attractive ex emails her, explaining that she has inherited her Great Aunt Poppy’s gorgeous country cottage in the South Downs, on the condition she lives there for a year with Sasha, Sasha really ought to tell her to get lost. So, despite the protests of Sasha’s best friend Indira, Sasha finds herself packing up her belongings and moving to the countryside. A year of feeding the chickens and eating Fox/s amazing cooking and pretending to everyone that they have rekindled their relationship. When the year is up they go their separate ways and Sasha pockets a nice lump sum from the sale of the cottage.
Or so she thinks. Because there’s a lot Sasha doesn’t know about her sexy ex.
When Sasha’s enigmatic and sinfully attractive ex emails her, explaining that she has inherited her Great Aunt Poppy’s gorgeous country cottage in the South Downs, on the condition she lives there for a year with Sasha, Sasha really ought to tell her to get lost. So, despite the protests of Sasha’s best friend Indira, Sasha finds herself packing up her belongings and moving to the countryside. A year of feeding the chickens and eating Fox/s amazing cooking and pretending to everyone that they have rekindled their relationship. When the year is up they go their separate ways and Sasha pockets a nice lump sum from the sale of the cottage.
Or so she thinks. Because there’s a lot Sasha doesn’t know about her sexy ex.
215 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 8, 2023
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March 26, 2023
I just love a happy ending but at what cost? Sasha is Insecure, in love, and no sense of self worth. It's only normal that when someone as attractive and as self assured as Fox is no longer in her life it brings out a 𝘭𝘰𝘵 of that self doubt.
Because tell me why (in your mind of course) you got cheated on, never got an apology or explanation since "Fox doesn't do apology". Yet you moved in with her 5 years later and started to pretend date at your big age to satisfy some dead womans will (granted you were going to be paid but we all know that's not all the reason sasha agreed to this ridiculous Idea).
And Fox is weird too. Boo hoo the consequences of my not being honest caught up with me. I lied to my gf about not dating anyone after we broke up knowing damn well how she reacts. These 2 don't need to be dating eachother they need to heal and it's going to take a lot more than words to get that trust back.
All in all i did love this. The Author making the character incredibly unbearable is so realistic and reminds me of fight's with my friends to walk out of relationships which just made it all the more difficult to read. but hey a happy ending is a happy ending i guess
Because tell me why (in your mind of course) you got cheated on, never got an apology or explanation since "Fox doesn't do apology". Yet you moved in with her 5 years later and started to pretend date at your big age to satisfy some dead womans will (granted you were going to be paid but we all know that's not all the reason sasha agreed to this ridiculous Idea).
And Fox is weird too. Boo hoo the consequences of my not being honest caught up with me. I lied to my gf about not dating anyone after we broke up knowing damn well how she reacts. These 2 don't need to be dating eachother they need to heal and it's going to take a lot more than words to get that trust back.
All in all i did love this. The Author making the character incredibly unbearable is so realistic and reminds me of fight's with my friends to walk out of relationships which just made it all the more difficult to read. but hey a happy ending is a happy ending i guess
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January 4, 2024
Fox is a chef at a pub near Brighton in southern England. Sasha is her ex, having separated five years before when Sasha found Fox cheating on her…
For some reason I really couldn’t get into the characters, especially Fox. She keeps so many secrets. And Sasha is such a diva. We only hear things from her point of view, but she is seriously biased. Such a suspicious, distrustful person, always thinking the worst of Fox.
Overall I would say this is a good story, but not something I really liked. I found it difficult to read it to the end. I have tried to be fair to the story, and given it four stars.
For some reason I really couldn’t get into the characters, especially Fox. She keeps so many secrets. And Sasha is such a diva. We only hear things from her point of view, but she is seriously biased. Such a suspicious, distrustful person, always thinking the worst of Fox.
Overall I would say this is a good story, but not something I really liked. I found it difficult to read it to the end. I have tried to be fair to the story, and given it four stars.
April 10, 2023
This is a fine story but I disagree with some of the other reviewers, Fox was not a liar she became a liar because of Sasha's paranoia.
Sasha's lack of self esteem became a self fulfilling prophecy and Fox started to lie to avoid they way Sasha would react to the truth, which isn't an excuse, it's shitty way to cope by avoid confrontation completely.
Overall, this people should not be together, nothing got resolved in the story and they have their happy ending and even though I think they would probably fall in the same patterns of behaviour again it is still a pretty entertaing story and all of us proprably know some people like these two.
Sasha's lack of self esteem became a self fulfilling prophecy and Fox started to lie to avoid they way Sasha would react to the truth, which isn't an excuse, it's shitty way to cope by avoid confrontation completely.
Overall, this people should not be together, nothing got resolved in the story and they have their happy ending and even though I think they would probably fall in the same patterns of behaviour again it is still a pretty entertaing story and all of us proprably know some people like these two.
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May 9, 2023
This book grabbed me, frustrated me, pulled me along kicking and screaming right to the end! I loved the sexy bits, very hot.
This is my first read do an Edie Marr book and it won’t be my last. She has developed some pretty interesting characters. The setting is a place I visited while traveling around England, it is beautiful and it fits the story. The main issue of trust is handled in such a great and unusual way, leading the reader into the mind of the main character. She has issues that need to be overcome. I felt real anxiety when reading parts that included the wife of the cousin, which tells me the author has written well. I do recommend this book.
This is my first read do an Edie Marr book and it won’t be my last. She has developed some pretty interesting characters. The setting is a place I visited while traveling around England, it is beautiful and it fits the story. The main issue of trust is handled in such a great and unusual way, leading the reader into the mind of the main character. She has issues that need to be overcome. I felt real anxiety when reading parts that included the wife of the cousin, which tells me the author has written well. I do recommend this book.
February 20, 2025
good premise, poor execution
The idea itself was not bad, as far as forced proximity stories go. But honestly, both characters are so incredibly toxic it’s impossible to root for them. Fox is at best callous and at worst a borderline narcissist, and Sasha has the self esteem of a cult survivor. In a way, I guess they’re perfect for each other, but only in that way that at least they’re off together somewhere instead of inflicting themselves on the general population. It’s great to have flawed characters, but not when they’re so bloody malignant. All this is to say that there was absolutely no character development for either character.
The idea itself was not bad, as far as forced proximity stories go. But honestly, both characters are so incredibly toxic it’s impossible to root for them. Fox is at best callous and at worst a borderline narcissist, and Sasha has the self esteem of a cult survivor. In a way, I guess they’re perfect for each other, but only in that way that at least they’re off together somewhere instead of inflicting themselves on the general population. It’s great to have flawed characters, but not when they’re so bloody malignant. All this is to say that there was absolutely no character development for either character.
March 13, 2023
I know what's like to be with someone that lies and keep secrets from you until you turn into a paranoid bitch, so I probably would never forgive Fox (I'm a Scorpio, so ..)
But, it's a cute story with a lot of sad stuff but also hot and cute stuff.
I'm glad they figured out and got their happy ending, although trust is not something you build in a day, and I think they will still have problems before they can actually trust each other.
But, it's a cute story with a lot of sad stuff but also hot and cute stuff.
I'm glad they figured out and got their happy ending, although trust is not something you build in a day, and I think they will still have problems before they can actually trust each other.
August 5, 2024
3.5 stars, rounded up - This was a quick and mostly cozy read, but I have no faith that they'll actually talk to each other and communicate their feelings in future, so they're probably setting themselves up for an unending cycle of break up get back together rinse and repeat. But, at least they'll be doing all that in bucolic surroundings!
May 25, 2023
Let’s Play House
Playing House is a cute lesbian romance about second chances and learning to trust. It was frustrating to learn that Fox and Sasha broke up over lack of communication. I loved the chemistry between the both of them. It was a fun read.
Playing House is a cute lesbian romance about second chances and learning to trust. It was frustrating to learn that Fox and Sasha broke up over lack of communication. I loved the chemistry between the both of them. It was a fun read.
July 26, 2023
This was the most British thing I have ever read in my life and I have read the backs of tea boxes.
July 27, 2023
An enjoyable read, lots of angst and questions to be answered.
November 29, 2023
I really liked this book! It was the perfect blend of spice and nice.
March 8, 2024
The Librarian Recommends...
*sigh*
The story started off with a good premise and a good hook. Unfortunately, that promise was not kept. In the end, it's a story of two very passive-aggressive people trying to manipulate the other into loving. Neither character is particularly engaging: Fox is clearly manipulative and unable to communicate and Sasha is needy, jumping to conclusions and acting on them as if they're a certainty. Both of them are so hasty, uncommunicative, and have so many unresolved issues on their own that I don't know how they are supposed to be taken seriously as a couple.
The Grammar Snob...
Had nothing to add.
Final Judgment?
The first book in the series was great and I recommend it. It's a shame that the sequels didn't reach the same heights. I recommend skipping this one.
*sigh*
The story started off with a good premise and a good hook. Unfortunately, that promise was not kept. In the end, it's a story of two very passive-aggressive people trying to manipulate the other into loving. Neither character is particularly engaging: Fox is clearly manipulative and unable to communicate and Sasha is needy, jumping to conclusions and acting on them as if they're a certainty. Both of them are so hasty, uncommunicative, and have so many unresolved issues on their own that I don't know how they are supposed to be taken seriously as a couple.
The Grammar Snob...
Had nothing to add.
Final Judgment?
The first book in the series was great and I recommend it. It's a shame that the sequels didn't reach the same heights. I recommend skipping this one.
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