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Ready. Set. Faux. Holden James picked the worst time to have a meltdown. His chance to audition for his favorite game show, Madcap Market , should have been a moment of triumph—a glorious, loving homage to his adored mom, who died six years ago. Instead, he’s destroying the minibar in a grim Los Angeles hotel room…recently dumped, partnerless and sliding into misery. But at least the hotel service is sublime. It even comes with an unfairly fit and sexy (smart-ass) concierge who arrives at the door with pizza, Monopoly and deliciously distracting forearms. All Holden knows about Leo Min is that he’s beautiful and unexpectedly sympathetic, and the chemistry between them is beyond . Maybe it’s even enough to convince everyone, including the show’s casting directors, that they’re a real couple. All they’d have to do is crush the competition, win the huge cash prize and all of Holden’s problems—his broken heart, his buried grief, his complete lack of money and direction—will be fixed. Of course, reality doesn’t quite work out that way. But love is an entirely different game…
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0**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.**
Timothy Janovsky's newest contemporary romance is The (Fake) Dating Game. Readers follow Holden who is in the middle of a series of downs. Newly broken up with, moved back in with his father, stuck in dead end jobs, and stuck in the cycle of grief after the death of his mother six years prior, Holden is looking for a change. And he's determined that the game show he and his mom loved is the ticket to get there. When Holden travels to Los Angeles to audition for the show, he meets Leo, the handsome concierge who agrees to fake a relationship so they can compete. When fake dating causes real feelings, Leo and Holden have far more to face than just the competition.
Janovsky wrote an accessible, rapidly consumable romance that is not at all shallow despite the lightheartedness. Janovsky doesn't shy away from dealing with the problems in Holden and Leo's lives head on nor does he shy away from the high spice developments in their blossoming relationship. One of the things I was most fond of is how Holden comes to deal with his ex after taking the appropriate time to deal with his own problems. Janovsky achieved a great balance of quick, forward-moving pacing along with allowing characters to sit in their emotions.
Overall, this was exactly what I wanted from a quick romance like this and I am eager to explore more from Timothy Janovsky.
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