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The Love Wager: The addictive fake dating romcom from the author of Mr Wrong Number

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a grown woman would ALSO not have awkwardly intense sexual tension with their ex-boyfriend while the man who she’s fake dating is right next to her. Painter (Betting on You) delivers a charmer of a rom-com with this lively tale of professional wedding objectors. Jack Marshall has a crisis about his love life after the playboy uncle he’s always idolized dies alone, leading Jack to cling to his own toxic relationship. i originally really, really wanted to like jack– i thought his character was fun and he had a significant amount of potential but all that potential was all poured down the drain. I am way too self-conscious and anxious to put myself out there on an app and meeting people who are kind of strangers and trying to make small talk, sounds mentally exhausting.

this entire relationship between jack and hallie would have happened so much quicker if they actually sat down and had a heart-to-heart about their feelings as adults-- teenager in middle school can do a better job at communicating their feelings than these fuckers. Like if you wanna be mad about sexism I can point out 2149094 things Jack did that you could legit be mad about. The author of Better Than the Movies spins another hilarious tale of romantic misadventure as Jack and Hallie realise that there may be more to their relationship than just being each other's wing-people.if jack had just admitted to his feelings early on instead of teetering around the fact that he kinda, sorta thought he was in love with her– this entire book would have been over quicker and there wouldn’t have been such a dramatic ending. My last complaint is how these two numb nuts were always banging on about being besties and not wanting to date when: 1) you've legit known each other for two moon cycles.

Because as they pretend to be a couple, they struggle to remember why dating for real was a bad idea to begin with. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs onto the dating app that she has determined will find her new love, she sees none other than Jack, the guy whose room she snuck out of.The first time we're forced to suffer through Jack's POV, he makes MULTIPLE remarks about what a teeny tiny smol bean Hallie is. also both of these characters NEVER learn from their previous mistakes– i cannot stress to you how many times it was discussed that jack’s spontaneous nature was a problem. He made his own explanation about why he is desperate to find his soul mate but I found this reason a little weak. Even though these two are fun, their characters still have a lot of depth, and they both have some issues to work through before they can become a couple.

That hitting the rock bottom moment makes her realize: she has to make urgent changes in her life to look like hot mess sh*t show!I need to stop but I'll just say one last thing: the ending was so abrupt I literally thought I had a misprint. And Jack is such a GUY - yes he’s sweet and falling in love and struggling with that, but he could be a bit of a jerk. The conflict towards the end wasn’t my favorite, but thankfully things came back around pretty quick and I truly adored the ending! Both of them (but mostly Hallie I think) had been deliberately not thinking about it but there’s nothing much they can do when they’re spending pretty much every moment together, pretending to be together, sharing a room.

Well in this second book in the series, it’s her brother Jack’s turn to find love, and once again, fate may have something to say! That delightful one revolved around Olivia Marshall finding love after she texted a wrong number and fate intervened. during the end of the book he was the most spontaneous he’s ever been but MIRACULOUSLY it doesn’t matter. After a one night stand, Hallie and Jack decide they're better off friends and make a wager on who will find true love first. As the story progresses, Hallie and Jack pretend to be in a relationship with each other, and that’s when things really start to heat up.Discouraged by the lack of prospects, Jack and Hallie make a wager to see who can find true love first, but when they agree to be fake dates for a weekend wedding, all bets are off. In contrast, things between Hallie and Jack are very natural and effortless and when Hallie is left without a date to her sister’s wedding, Jack offers to go as support, especially as her ex will be there, as best mate of the groom. Their banter is laugh out loud funny, their friendship is genuinely charming and sweet, and their chemistry is *ooo la la! yes’ he swallowed and said, ‘i can't drive by a burger king without thinking of french fries in bed; i can't hear a british person speak without remembering your fucking awful accent; i can't see a diamond ad without picturing your stupid grinning face at the borsheim's counter; and i can't hear my phone buzz without wishing it would be some asinine text from you. Wrong Number (thought it was weak and a bit creepy), but I thought I'd give Lynn Painter's adult novels another try.

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