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חליפות שחורות ושקרים לבנים

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החיים הם אף פעם לא שחור או לבן.

רגע אחד את מעצבת גרפית מתחילה בלוס אנג'לס, שסוף־סוף משלימה עם היותך רווקה לנצח, וברגע הבא את טסה לניו יורק במטוס פרטי כדי להתארס עם אחיו הגדול של האקס שלך.

לפחות... זה מה שכולם חושבים.

בקהאם סינקלייר, המיליארדר הרווק הנחשק ביותר בעיר, חייב להתנער מתדמיתו כפלייבוי כדי להגן על החֶברה שלו. לכן הוא מבקש ממני לגלם את תפקיד ארוסתו והעוזרת האישית שלו.

מרגע שהסכמתי לשתף פעולה, אני מבלה כל שנייה פנויה בחברת גבר שחשבתי שלעולם לא אראה שוב.

הלב השבור שלי רק התחיל להתאחות אחרי שנשבר על ידי מישהו אחר ממשפחת סינקלייר. אבל בכל יום שחולף, פיו המלוכלך של בֶּק ומבטיו הלוהטים גורמים לי לפקפק במניעים שלו – ובשלי.

כשהקו מיטשטש בין האמת לבין העמדת הפנים, רק דבר אחד בטוח: העיר הזאת מחביאה סודות מאחורי שקרים לבנים וחליפות שחורות.

קאט סינגלטון גרה בקנזס עם בעלה, שני ילדיה ופנקס הרישומים שלה. בזמנה הפנוי אפשר למצוא אותה שותה קפה קר וגונבת כמה עמודים מהספר שהיא קוראת. כתיבתה השנונה והסקסית הזניקה את הספר חליפות שחורות ושקרים לבנים למקום החמישי באמזון והפכה אותו לסנסציית טיקטוק.

זהו הספר הראשון בסדרת מיליארדרים בחליפות שחורות. כל ספר בסדרה הוא על דמויות אחרות ויכול להיקרא בפני עצמו.

344 pages, Paperback

First published February 2, 2023

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About the author

Kat Singleton

25 books5,855 followers
Kat Singleton is a bestselling contemporary romance author best known for writing Black Ties and White Lies. She specializes in writing elite banter and angst mixed with a heavy dose of spice. Kat strives to write an authentically raw love story for her characters and feels that no book is complete without some emotional turmoil before a happily ever after.

She lives in Kansas with her husband, her two kids, and her two doodles. In her spare time, you can find her surviving off iced coffee and sneaking in a few pages of her current read.


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616 reviews296 followers
March 6, 2023
this book is missing something and that something is ✨context✨ because tell me why a graphic designer decided to accept a “promotion” to become a coffee girl for the c.e.o. of a cyber security company??
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272 reviews774 followers
February 20, 2023
this would’ve been better if the fmc simply jumped off a bridge 🥰
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114 reviews96 followers
April 25, 2023
If you told me a 14 year old wrote this, I’d believe you. 🥱
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736 reviews273 followers
February 6, 2023
.25 stars for what it could be like. Tho tiktok would love it. They would even hype it.


A very cheap rip off of that “other book” that I happen to very much love and adore. I didn’t like this book at all. My problem wasn’t that it was similar similar to that “other book”, as book dupes doesn’t bother me much. But rather it’s this book only that I just don’t happen to like, and simply despised it. It was really corny, cringe and with the WMC as a whiny and annoying character, and a hero with zero personality except making big talks 💀

🪧“Say his name again, and I’ll bend you right over this table and fuck you until the only name you can say is mine. You’ll be so full of me you won’t even remember who you were thinking about before.”

And mind you they just met. This line alone ruined the mood and then and there I knew it was going to go downhill for me. It was catered and written around the tropes and «spice» doesn’t matter how they don’t just serve tho

🪧“Tell me your terms, Margo.”

So apparently he asked her to be his fake gf and propositioned her for it too. I get he wanted her as a hand candy to reform his playboy image yada yada but why tf would she agree? What’s in it for her?


Along with that, the conflict towards end seemed to have been used to just to increase the word count? What was even the point of it? There was 0 grovel and 0 angst? Literally no chemistry. The boy obsessed trope couldn’t alone save this book just because author says that he’s. Their sex scene were whack too. The ending was rushed and boring. Overall, it’s a pass from me!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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336 reviews2,016 followers
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December 26, 2024
dnf at 14%

you're a boring girl, working in a boring company until one day you get requested to meet someone. you're confused as fuck, but you still went there & found a man with broad shoulders, giving richy-rich vibes & oozing massive confidence. then you found out that the confidence-oozing, broad-shouldered guy is your boss. the shocking thing is, he turns out to be none other than your cheating ex's OLDER and HOTTER brother. emphasis on hotter and he's looking at you like you're the last slice of pizza at a party. he offers you to be his FAKE FIANCEEEE, but obviously, you'll refuse the ridiculous idea because you're YOU and say your ex's name thrice. but suddenly he GROWLS and tells you, "Say his name again, and I’ll bend you right over this table and fuck you until the only name you can say is mine. You’ll be so full of me you won’t even remember who you were thinking about before." leaving you so hot and bothered. But, as you're YOU, you don't give a fuck.

now you're his fake fiancée and it's day 2, he told you that you'll beg for him to fuck you or kiss you blah blah which again leaves you hot, horny and bothered. on top of that, he also heard your friends calling his dickt a pony, so he told you that he actually prefers the word 'stallion', all while commenting about your breasts 🤭 but you hate him so you just ROLLED YOUR EYES.

I *sweating profusely* can't do this anymo- 🏃‍♀️
Profile Image for Maditales.
625 reviews33k followers
July 22, 2023
I had to laugh out loud when she tried to stop him from fighting his brother with her voice PLEASE STOP

ALSO WHY ARE YOU A DOG AND GROWLING
ALSO This woman needs to stop whining about everything.
“Oh no he loved you and tried everything to be with you?” How sad 😞
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626 reviews561 followers
February 14, 2023
she's kinda stupid ngl but i get her. I really do. Cuz i too would love to have a billionaire who's just fucking obsessed with me.
184 reviews142 followers
February 18, 2023
dnf @ 6%
Please, for the love of God, is it too much to ask to make good and normal female main character??
Istg the fmc in this book is cringe, annoying, disgusting, and she acts like she so thirst over him- like stfu bitchhh- seriously.
I just want to fucking barf all over the place- and I'm only on chapter 4 probably-
Idc. Idefc about his 🤬
Profile Image for ✧ FLINN ✧ (Semi-Hiatus).
562 reviews119 followers
February 13, 2023
Dnf around 32%.

Mediocre. This book is a plagiarized, cheap, badly written, awful rip off The Favor by Suzanne Wright, which is laughable because it’s one of my favorite book. It’s like the Shein version of a high end piece of clothing.

Just bad.
Profile Image for crystal.
717 reviews736 followers
January 20, 2023
This book is a MUST READ.

tropes:
ex boyfriend’s brother
fake fiancé
workplace romance
forced proximity

I had the literal best time reading this book. Beck and Margo are seriously a new favorite couple of mine and so is this book! I loved every single second to this. Beck is literally so hot! I want that man for myself! He is absolute perfection 😭. I just finished this book and I already miss it so much. If I could give this book a higher rating than 5 stars, I WOULD.
Profile Image for Heather Mclarry.
304 reviews46.7k followers
May 13, 2023
Overall cute book! I LOVE BECK AND THE SPICE WAS SO GOOD. IM SORRY FIGE STRAIGHT CHAPTERS??????? Love. Got a tad bored at the end though !!
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901 reviews4,975 followers
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June 5, 2023
I made it to 11% and couldn't keep reading anymore.
This dude is a douche and thinks he's being all hot and tormented, but he just sounds like a horny frat boy.
That's not sexy at all.
Also, we're like 6 chapters in and they're already pining hard for each other. I get insta-attraction, but possessiveness? Jealousy? Bleh.
I'm not the biggest fan of fake dating storylines, but I appreciate one when it's believable and well done.
These two arranged a fake relationship out of nowhere, for questionable reasons, and even had the "we need to set some rules" speech.
We all know you're going to break those rules, guys.
You can't stop eye-fucking each other. Just jump into a real relationship and call it a success.
Jeez.
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1,133 reviews183 followers
May 16, 2023
You know what…I have not had the best time with highly recommended books from booktok. The irony is that I’m not even ON TikTok, they just make their way over to the bookstagram world, and I gobble them up…like an idiot. I hoped for so much more from this book, but instead I got chapters and chapters of boring interactions, an Adorably Clueless FMC who I just wanted to shove down so that she would shut the fuck up, an asshole MMC who was good for one thing and one thing only, and a whole bunch of pointless fluff. Including but not limited to…that ridiculous third act “breakup” over a stupid secret that really wasn’t even all that. MEH!
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857 reviews2,148 followers
July 13, 2023
“Isn’t it obvious? I bought the company so you had no choice but to talk to me. I am your boss now, after all.”

sigh. guys like Beckham Sinclair (H) only exist in fiction. 😪 i give credit to his Taylor Swifts “Mastermind” themed plans because his obsession with the h and how he treats her throughout this book is the strongest point of Black Ties and White Lies. what bothers me the most is the fact that the h has it too easy. i envy her. i hate her. she has everything handed to her. i feel like this book is all about the romance and smut, but the characters dont have personalities or their own individual subplot or journey or character development, which is kind of an ick/deterrent for me.

“It’s insulting that you think I’m normal. I’m far from normal, Margo. I’ll go to great lengths to get what I want.”

i love fake engagement/marriage scenarios. however, this one is flimsy at best. the h uproots her life to follow her cheating (ex) boyfriend. then shes doing the same with his brother (H). i dont understand why she agrees to his proposal. i mean, whats in it for her? simply for a reassurance (not 100% guaranteed) that she’ll get an interview for her dream job?? seems hardly believable. 🤷‍♀️ this book has FIVE straight chapters of a sex scene, which is hot but also excessive and too drawn out imo. overall, ive read better romances with the same tropes. this wont be my first choice to recommend to people, but its not too bad.

similar books:
- A Not So Meet Cute
- Terms and Conditions
- Marriage for One
- The Favor

(read as an audiobook)
Profile Image for Crystal (Crystalreads2).
969 reviews991 followers
February 5, 2023
Black Ties & White Lies was recommended to me so many times. But honestly, I read it because of the author's video of a particular scene. Marketing genius!

Beck has always had feelings for his brother’s ex-girlfriend, Margo. A little year after the break up with the brother, Beck needs Margo’s help and propositions her with a proposal. Margo makes it far from easy for him. She fights him tooth and nail. It’s glorious.

Page nine is when I fell in love with Beck. The man buys a company just to talk to the women of his desires and heart. Why? Because she refused all his calls. From that moment on, I knew I was In for a fun and wild ride.

“Isn’t it obvious? I bought the company so you had no choice but to talk to me. I am your boss now, after all.”


Beck is neat, clean, and order. Margo is chaos, wild and messy. She gets under his skin and challenges him; equally, at the same time, she loves and is excited about how she pushes his buttons. The email exchanges between the two are dirty and comical.

So many times, I couldn’t stop laughing. Black Ties & White Lies is a must read

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113 reviews200 followers
November 22, 2024
3,25 ⭐
It was good but than it became meeeh 🙂🤝
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1,191 reviews409 followers
February 17, 2023
I wish someone would give me back the hours I spend reading this book, cus it was so fucking bad, I don't know where to start

About the writing:
It was the worst, idk if the text didn't went through any corrections or something, but it was written like 10 year's old first wattpad fanfic.

Many times I needed to read again the whole paragraph just to understand what the sentence meant or go back few pages so I'd know what is happening where and even then, I still couldn't understand some scenes.

Also what drove me mad were dialogues, to be specific - how men talked, cus they didn't talk, they GROWLED, ROARED, HISSED EVERY DAMN TIME THEY OPENED THEIR MOUTH wtf are they dogs???

About the plot
There wasn't any

This book has no interest being this long, cus nothing actually happened, it was a mix of random scenes put together.


False advertising:
Marriage of convenience - no, they didn't get married
Fake dating - they didn't date, they jumped each other almost immediately after first meeting
Workplace romance - there were maybe three scenes in the office

About the characters
Main girl was so not like other girls, insecure, cus he's so handsome and wealthy and could have every model and miss worldwide he wanted, but she's so plain🥺 *insert eye roll*
Despite this book being over 400 pages idk anything about this girl besides three facts:
1) she was dating Beck's younger brother
2) she likes to draw
3) she likes some weird coffee
Nothing else, no description of anything except how much she wants to fuck Beck 🙄

Beck was supposed to be this billionaire possessive boyfriend all booktok love yeah??? Well he wasn't, also don't know anything about him except three facts:
1) he's very rich
2) has younger brother
3) "can talk dirty, but sweet at the same time"🙄
But imo he was borderline too possessive and controlling, example, he took main girl to her apartment to pack so they could fly to his apartment in NY, which he informed her abt like
5 min earlier, to which she makes argument, cus like bro should've given her some time to prepare??? So when she didn't want to go, he grabbed her and forced her to go pack, like there were these few scenes that he grabbed her too roughly and like it didn't feel like good kind of possessiveness just borderline lil abusive

Their relationship
There wasn't ANY kind of chemist between the main characters, he fell in love the first time he saw her🙄, she loved him since like week after they met🙄

They were just cardboard pieces without any history, thoughts, or personalities, just let's fuck hot billionaire and let's force this girl into fake marriage so she'd love me, yey😀

The pacing was so much off, she literally saw the guy for the second time, moved into his apartment, got him coffee as his new "assistant" fucked him, drama, the end, in the span of a month.

It all felt like the author saw a bunch of these quote videos on tiktok, decided to take the most viral ones into the book, throw sex scenes and publish it.

This is the longest review I've ever wrote so hope enjoyed, cus I suffered so u don't have to.

Also it's after midnight and I should very much prefer to be sleeping so idk if anything I wrote makes sense.
Profile Image for Ellie °• semi-hiatus.
327 reviews458 followers
December 10, 2023
I realized Manhattan was no longer the place I call home. I’d call anywhere home if it meant I was with her, because my home is no longer a physical place. My home is her.


14/02/2023 :I need to stop taking recommendations from TikTok🙃 ... at this point my planned tbr won't make it far


Disclaimer this was my Valentine's gift to me 😅

16/02/2023:
So this went well and I'm happy. Starting this I had bottom low expectations and it helped a lot while reading this.
Was it amazing? No, but it wasn't bad either.

Beck was such a hopeless romantic and I loved to see a soft side from him , then he was 🛐. Margo I liked her but at the same time have not much to say about her .

Yeah - have mention that at first I almost gave up at how insta -lust hate hate insta lust /love but continue reading cause these 2 have a past together 🖤.

OH YEAH ALSO THESE 5 CHAPTERS
AMM-
YEAH
ONE BED TROPE 🛌 YOU FUCKING DELIVERED 🤌🙏🏻


also

THE SCENE AT WORK
SHEESHH🛐❤️‍🔥

If you read this for the plot - do not read it
If you read this for the Romance- do read it


2.5 ✨️
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139 reviews74 followers
June 26, 2024
2.5 ⭐️

It took me over two weeks to finish this book. Half the reason might be my schedule, but the other half is that this book unfortunately doesn't offer much depth to the characters and plot. Therefore I wasn't looking forward to open this book and finish it.

"My heart can't live here if it's not living here with you."

It makes me sad because this book could have been so much better with the way the story was set up. Because Black Ties & White Lies takes place in the city that I love and live, and the trope that I like to read with extra little spice to it. Nonetheless, I could only give this book 2.5 stars.
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63 reviews85 followers
January 4, 2024
"Normal people don’t buy companies to talk with their brother’s ex-girlfriends"
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659 reviews2,782 followers
January 18, 2024
I had THE BEST TIME reading this. Beck is 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

I am convinced Kat can do no wrong because every single book I’ve read by her just SLAPS.

Also… the spice in this was ELITE

I’m so excited for the next one!

“So the next time you find that you’re comparing yourself to other women, don’t. There’s never been anyone else. Just you.”

✨billionaire
✨fake dating/ engagement
✨ex boyfriends older brother
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
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231 reviews647 followers
February 4, 2023
I really don’t like leaving bad reviews because I know authors put their heart in their work but :

It felt like the author took everything Booktok likes (or what’s popular) to put it in the same book. That’s way too much.
I think you can play a Booktok bingo with this book.

Some things were RUSHED, did he really just say that at the very beginning of the book ? Why ?
A plot magically appears at 80% of the book to create a third act breakup (gosh I was mad)

2 stars because the spice was actually not bad but for the rest I am sorry I didn’t like it.

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499 reviews1,083 followers
March 3, 2023
giving one star to books is so therapeutic idc. this was ✨trash✨ also why is "fake fiance" a trope now- commitment has left the chat🧍‍♀️
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377 reviews806 followers
May 15, 2023
3 stars only bc ex’s older hotter brother is a fave trope bc i’m a petty bitch 🫣 🤭
Profile Image for Dani (Daniiireads).
1,967 reviews324 followers
August 3, 2025
I mean, it was fine. Originally DNF in 2023, probably should have let it stay that way 🤣

WHAT TO EXPECT:
- buying a whole ass company to get a girl’s attention
- oh btw she’s his brother’s ex girlfriend
- work place romance
- fake dating/engagement
- billionaire
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1,358 reviews3,191 followers
March 1, 2023
•-.’ *~🌷 So your ex-boyfriend's older brother comes to you and asks you to be his fake fiancée? You say yes. That's it.

Black Ties and White Lies was everything. Definitely one of my highlights of this month and one of my new favorites of this year. It starts so fast and it's so easy to get into. Margo is approached by her ex-bf's brother, Beckham, about becoming his new assistant but also eventually weave this tale that they fell in love and becoming engaged. Obviously, everything is fake. Or is it?

There's so much history and secrets you do not know at first, but let me tell you that BECKHAM SINCLAIR IS ONE OBSESSED MFER! He bought a company just for the chance to speak with Margo because she wasn't picking up her calls lmao. And many will say that's intense and kinda toxic and maybe a little bit unhinged. But that's Beck. I love it and it was so funny to see him try his hardest to make Margo fall in love with him as well.

He's also a billionaire and lives in this beautiful penthouse. And when Margo agrees to this farce, she goes to live with him in New York. Closed quarters, forced proximity, you know... everything you need in a romance book. But I also really, really adore the domesticity of these two. Of their relationship. They fit together so well! All the little things they did together, like eating dinner, watching TV while he's working but putting her feet on his lap, talking for hours at night... they did it all! It was so obvious they were meant to be and that they were actually soulmates okay.

The steam in this book is insane. THERE'S LIKE A FOUR-CHAPTER SMUTTY SCENE AT ONE POINT? Snowed-in in a small town with only a honeymoon suite available? You bet there's gonna be some fun times. Beck and Margo have definitely become one of my favorite romance couples. And I'm just waiting for more in this world!! I hope there are more books and this becomes a series.
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