When you need a boyfriend, a hot actor is the solution, even if you hate each other…

Synopsis

Fake dating my enemy was never supposed to feel so real…

MIA
My ex-boyfriend screwed me over and now the future of my matchmaking agency is in danger. I’d do anything to save it. Even if it involves fake dating my childhood best friend, hot Hollywood action movie star Liam Stone.

With his good looks, charm and acting skills, he’d be ideal.

There’s just one problem. We hate each other.

But the arrangement would help me win the Matchmaker of the Year award (being single doesn’t exactly work in my favour) and scoop the cash prize and publicity that would save my business.

It’s purely professional. Two months and we’re done.

Except when Liam kisses me, nothing about the fireworks between us feels fake…

LIAM
I’m no stranger to kiss-and-tell stories. But when I get caught up in a sex scandal that threatens to end my career, I fly to London to escape the drama.

I never expected to bump into her. 

Yeah, Mia’s smart and annoyingly attractive, but when she asks me to be her fake boyfriend, my first thought is hell no. Not after what happened before.

Then I realise pairing up with her would help shake off my playboy image and restore my reputation.

Dating Mia will be a challenge, but pretending is my forte.

Except when we’re forced to share a bed, the feelings that are supposed to be pretend become all too real…

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Get ready to stay up all night! Once you start reading this steamy, dual POV, fake-dating, enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy, you won’t be able to stop!

Swoon-worthy happy ending guaranteed. Order The Match Faker now!

Tropes

• Fake dating
• Enemies-to-lovers
• Forced proximity
• Only one bed
• Celebrity romance
• Reformed playboy

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My review

Mia truly believes in love, even if her ex – boyfriend screwed her over. And that affects her matchmaking agency, she would do anything to save it. As there is a bi competition to win, Mia knows she needs to find someone to pretend in being her boyfriend. Because how can she show being great at matching people if she is single herself?
And her former best friend, and famous Hollywood actor Liam Stone agrees to play the part, especially as he needs himself some severe damage control after a sex scandal.
A match made in heaven, weren’t it for the fact that Mia and Liam hate each other… But when one kiss ignites severe fireworks and they are forced to share a bed, where does pretending end and does something real begin?

I could write a real short review, stating that this is a wonderful and hilarious book that you should absolutely read to put a big smile on your face.
But that just wouldn’t be enough to make you understand just how much I loved it and Olivia Spring for sure deserves more than just a few words!

Mia is such an easy character to like and love. She wants everyone to find their perfect person, and to be happy, even if her latest relationship turned her life into hell.
It isn’t clear from the very start what exactly happened to her and just how much in trouble she is. And it for sure it doesn’t help Mia feeling like a failure to her own family. Her parents are pushing her to return to her former job, giving up the business and her sister for sure isn’t all that supportive and is always taking the spotlight.

With so many doubts that Mia is having, of course I could understand how important it is to her to win the award, as it is a way to secure the business she has been working so hard on.
In a way, it also saddened me that in order to make a great impression, she needs to find a fake boyfriend. Why is someone’s success linked to them being or not being in a relationship, even if you are a matchmaking? I found it even better for Mia being single, as that means that she isn’t settling for anything but the perfect match, even for herself!

Her pairing up with Liam for sure is a recipe for laughter! There is history between them, as they used to be friends, but now are anything but.

I could clearly imagine Liam, this hunk, hot male specimen 😊. And even if my world couldn’t be further away from all that Hollywood glitter and glam, I think I could understand the temptations of that world.
And I could understand the mistakes Liam made and is perhaps still making. And in his case, it saddened me to read how people are using Liam for their own advantages and having him labelled, careerwise and other.

Both needing someone in their corner, of course they need to pair up! Mia needs a fake boyfriend and Liam needs someone to clean up his reputation.
But I was wondering just how good this pair would be at pretending to like, or rather love each other, while their actual feelings couldn’t be more different!
Of course it was hilarious seeing Mia trying (and also failing) to be pretending, and Liam trying to teach her the tricks.

Yet while that was absolutely hilarious, it were the moments the pair is on their own, in the privacy of where Liam is staying that truly warmed my heart.
Because it’s during those ‘alone – moments’ that Liam and Mia are just Liam and Mia, not the actor and  not the matchmaker.
And slowly they lose those negative vibes they initially had. From protecting Mia from attacking spiders, to support a new direction in his career Liam wants to take, the bond Mia and Liam once had, seems to return.

I loved to read how feelings start to change, but also how it’s not just that change and everything is perfect. Because even the changed dynamics, Olivia Spring managed perfectly to capture the insecurities and doubts people have in a (fake) relationship.
How much is just pretend, and how much is real? How much dare someone to open up and come clean about their feelings, without having a heartbreak as a result?

Like I said, I absolutely loved reading this book. It was heart – warming, sweet and hilarious at the same time. But it also has plenty of vulnerability in it, even the characters that appear to be so composed and strong.
Olivia Strong wrote once again a story that was impossible to put away!