Real Fake Love by Pippa Grant is a line drive straight to the heart featuring a grumpy athlete, a jilted bride, a fake relationship, and the world’s laziest cat. It stands alone and comes complete with sibling rivalry, the world’s most awkward shower scene, and a sweetly satisfying happily ever after.
Ashley’s Review
Who will be the Fireballs new mascot? Does the team manage to go from worst to first in one season? Who, exactly, is Luca Rossi? All will be revealed . . . in this book, NOT in this review.
Real Fake Love feels like a love letter from Pippa Grant to her readers, and perhaps to her fellow authors. This opposites-attract rom com brings back some familiar characters and locations while also introducing a new hero and heroine. I was grinning from ear-to-ear starting with the very first chapter.
Real Fake Love is a charming romantic comedy featuring a jilted bride and the grumpy baseball player who agrees to teach her how to not fall in love. As is often the case with fake relationships, however, things get a bit complicated when real feelings get involved.
"Teaching her how to not fall in love feels like teaching a rainbow how to not sparkle. An unpredictable, chaotic, klutzy rainbow, but still a rainbow."
Henri's thoughts are hard to follow at times, and there were a few plot points that prevented this from being a five-star read for me, but I still really enjoyed it. I don't want to give any spoilers, but if you find yourself slowing down, keep going. The end is worth it. This story delivers a perfectly satisfying happily ever after, just as promised.
"She falls in love with the sunrise every morning, with the weird shapes in her toast at breakfast, with the way a bird shakes itself off after flying into a window, and with basically anything that isn't evil. Henri falls in love. Not only with men, but with the world. Every. Single. Day."
Blurb
If people have polar opposites, Luca Rossi is mine.
His butt is in the baseball hall of fame. Mine’s comfortably seated in the hall of lame.
When he’s not snagging fly balls out in center field, he’s modeling in shampoo commercials. I once jammed my own finger while stirring cookie dough, and sometimes I forget shampoo is a thing.
He’s a total cynic when it comes to love.
I make a living writing love stories.
But after my latest broken engagement (no, I don’t want to talk about how many times that’s happened), it’s clear he’s exactly the man I need.
If anyone can teach me to be the opposite of me, it’s him.
The first thing I want him to teach me?
How to not fall in love.
And as luck would have it, he’s in desperate need of a fake girlfriend to get a meddling grandmother off his back.
We couldn’t be more perfect together, because the last thing Luca Rossi will ever be is the next man to leave me at the altar.
Or will he?
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Pippa Grant is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes romantic comedies that will make tears run down your leg. When she's not reading, writing or sleeping, she's being crowned employee of the month as a stay-at-home mom and housewife trying to prepare her adorable demon spawn to be productive members of society, all the while fantasizing about long walks on the beach with hot chocolate chip cookies.
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