In my last post, I mentioned tropes like friends to lovers and detest to love and instalove, and after I had posted, I kept thinking about it. And I remembered, that more than instalove, my very favorite trope is the phoney boyfriend trope. Mostly because it can usually donate me a little bit of the other tropes that I love too. So, today I’m going to talk about a series I liked so much I am reading it again!
I’m going to review each book individually because they are each pretty unique and amusement to talk about. But for a brief review to give you an idea of what you are going into: the first three books maintain up the fake boyfriend/girlfriend trope, after that signal the world just expands minus the fake crush thing. Sports is a major part of this series. But as someone who low-key hates sports, I actually didn’t consciousness that at all. In fact, it just gentle of made the truth that all the guys were hot as fuck actually make sense. Enjoy, have you ever noticed in books, everyone is super hot? And I’m all, where are these hot men IRL? But in these books, it makes sense that everyone has a six pack because they literally perform out for HOURS every day. Meanwhile, I’m reading about them working out while I eat
What’s even better than false dating? Real dating. But of course, we all know that’s what artificial dating always eventually leads to. Ask any theater kid or actor who’s ever been enmeshed in a showmance — you can’t just pretend to fall in love with someone without at least a little bit of falling in love with them. Try telling that to the couples at the heart of these 12 queer fake digital dating books, though. They’ll never believe you.
I adoration few things more than some good fake virtual dating fan fiction — fiction, I mean, fake dating fiction — and these 12 books are great examples of all the things this trope does so good. With oblivious romantics and mutual crushes, not to mention forced proximity and some occasional enemy to lovers, fake dating encompasses so many fun elements of romance fiction. Writers love it, readers affectionate it, and from the amount of books continuing to come out, I think it’s safe to say publishers love it, as well. They romance how much readers cherish it, anyway. So whether you’re a writer, a reader, or simply a romantic daydreamer, take a moment to enjoy the oblivious antics of the fake lovebirds at the heart of these gay fake dating books.
Fake Dates and Mooncakes by
Fake Boyfriend
Maddox - The reason I rarely go home is three simple words: I'm a liar.
When the pressure to marry my childhood sweetheart became too much, I told her I was gay and then fled to New York like my ass was on fire.
Now, five years later and after a drunken encounter, I find myself invited to her wedding. And I have to bring my boyfriend-the boyfriend who doesn't exist because I'm vertical.
At least, I assume I am. Meeting the guy I'm bribing to be my boyfriend for the weekend makes me question everything about myself.
Damon - When my sister asks me to pretend to be some straight guy's boyfriend, my automatic response is to say no. It's because of guys like him people don't believe me when I tell them I'm gay.
But Maddox has something I require.
After an injury that cost me my baseball career, I'm trying to leave my playing days behind and focus on being the best sports agent I can be. Forty-eight hours with my sister's best friend in exchange for a rendezvous with a possible client. I can do this.
I just wish he wasn't so hot. Or that he didn't touch like he means it.
Beth Bolden’s intense, warm Italian American Moretti family stretches over two series, sorry, three, as cousin Rocco is heading off to Christmas Falls towards the end.
The Moretti family, brothers or cousins, can be found as chefs or restauranteurs in the wonderful Food Truck Warriors and now in her Indigo Bay novels. And as I mentioned even more.
While these books are listed as standalone, they really aren’t as they need the foundation of the preceding novel to give the reader depth of understanding of the characters, their history, and the setting of Indigo Bay from the perspective of both stories.
Here, it’s Enzo Moretti, a nature who was introduced to readers in Sweet as Pie #1, but returning home (temporarily) older and as an established mural artist . He’s separated himself from the Moretti family culinary path, and has tried to undertake the same with his own life by his absence.
I thought Bolden, who always does an exemplary job of layering her characters, has made Enzo a person to relate to with his complicated family dynamics and control troubled journey to maturity . The author is also able to allow us see into his artistic passion and processes as he c
