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Hope Webb can’t believe her twin sister, Jackie, is begging her to swap places and play fiancée at Jackie’s pre-wedding festivities. Sure, it’s only a business-deal sort of marriage, but Hope is a carb-loving teacher who enjoys curling up with a good book. Jackie is a workaholic whose idea of a good time is a brisk five-mile run at the crack of dawn. The two sisters couldn’t be more opposite. Now Hope is stuck in the middle of a warm, tight-knit family she can’t help but adore and a groom who turns out to be entirely wonderful...for her. Hotel magnate Brent Albright knows something is off about his fiancée, but he doesn’t care. Gone is the driven woman with similar career goals, and in her place is someone warm and funny who not only charms his family but him as well. She’s doing everything she can to avoid him, but that’s probably just nerves. Two people about to wed couldn’t know each other less. Now Brent is determined to woo his fiancée, for real this time, because the more he gets to know her, the more his sweet fiancée turns out to be entirely wonderful...for him. And that’s when things start to get really complicated...
Publication Year: 2020
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DNF at 50%, read through chapter 11. I feel that this is enough grounds to write a review.
I thought twins switching places in the run up to a wedding could be cute and fun. I read the first chapter and made the conscious decision to suspend disbelief and just go with it. But after trying to go with it for half the book I needed to tap out.
My primary issue with with the sustained lying. Yes, I expected some and expected it to be cringey, but I also thought it would be whimsical. Whimsical and over the top, followed by a fairly swift reveal, are the only things that would have helped. All the connection between the two MCs is based on a lie, one for which the heroine is not expressing enough angst over, Not that the hero is excused, clueless as he is. Until the lie was exposed, I couldn't feel anything for either of them except cringe. And I couldn't believe their connection, because, again, it was predicated on a lie. And half the book is too long for the lie to have gone on.
My secondary issue is around food. Original twin is very strict with her diet - low fat, no carbs. Replacement twin (heroine) mentions calories in the first chapter and how she gains weight thinking of food. I didn't care for this and it just kept coming up. It honestly felt very dated to me. While I don't recall any explicit body negativity, it was just skirting the edges of it, waiting to happen.
I love a fake relationship, but both parties need to know they're in one. This is definitively not for me.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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