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Date read: November 30, 2024
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Something has to give... Could it be her heart?Thoughts on My Big Fat Fake Marriage: Oh.My.Goodness. Beck is a gloriously burly cinnamon roll who can't tell lies without suffering unseemly side effects and who has the unparalleled ability to find the upside to EVERYTHING. Connie (whose real name is Hazel, which is the side of herself she needs to relearn how to embrace thanks to parents who did their level best to force her into a mold of their choosing) is...not those things. Well, she could be those things if the little voice in her head (which probably sounds suspiciously like her mother) would let her wave her nerd flag more often.
Connie has always distrusted nice guys. In her experience, they’re just waiting to reveal some horrible secret. And then she meets big, adorable, Henry Samuel Beckett—editor extraordinaire, lover of bow ties, sweet and so cheery she struggles to believe he’s real.
Until Henry Samuel Beckett—or Beck, as he’s known to most—tells her the secret underneath his sunny surface: He’s been single all his life. But in a moment of panic, he’s told everyone at his publishing house that he’s married. And when Connie, an aspiring writer herself, can’t help defending him, she ends up being the fake wife he doesn’t actually have.
When they head off on a writing retreat, surrounded by people convinced this must be a ruse, both of them can't help but agree. Until they share their first kiss, their first touch, their first time in only one bed. Side by side, every night, as the simmering tension builds…Connie starts to wonder if this might be real after all.
The point? Hazel has convinced herself Beck is everything she could never want in a partner because he's just too kind and cheery and GOOD. Meanwhile, Beck has convinced himself Hazel is way too good for him and his nerdiness. The truth? They're kind of perfect for one another. Beck sees all the wonderful things in Hazel that she doesn't see. And Hazel would probably fight a mountain if she thought it had insulted Beck.
In other words, they're both what the other needs to be the best versions of themselves they could possibly be.
But it takes a while for them to get there. Hazel has to see Beck with clear eyes (and have him wax poetic about how pretty much everything she does turns him on) and Beck needs to embrace that Hazel wants him for him. Bow ties and blushes and all.
Seriously, THESE TWO. Once Beck started dirty talking, it was all over for Hazel.
Teeny, tiny camp counselor outfits, naughty Scrabble, a v-card holding man who is not afraid to worship at the alter of his lady, and a lady who has to work through her issues before she loses the best thing that ever crossed her path. MAN, I liked these two together!
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