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beyondevak's review against another edition
3.0
Quick Summary: Quirky, charming, sexy & laugh-out-loud funny!
Rating: 3/5
Recommend: Yes
Audience: Adult
Status: M
Chemistry/Intensity: Yes
Conflict/Drama: Yes
Family Dysfunction: Yes
Humor/Wit: Yes
HEA: Yes
Source: NetGalley
Rating: 3/5
Recommend: Yes
Audience: Adult
Status: M
Chemistry/Intensity: Yes
Conflict/Drama: Yes
Family Dysfunction: Yes
Humor/Wit: Yes
HEA: Yes
Source: NetGalley
tales_of_a_bookbug's review against another edition
4.0
Another cute romance from Lisa Wells and this book follows Kinley's brother- Jack and her best friend- Adeline.
Jack is an accountant and in order to get the promotion he's been aiming for, he needs to play the part of a family man.And for that he needs a fake fiance.Adeline needs help in French before she goes off to Paris for culinary school.They're both hesitant about faking an engagement when Kinley proposes the idea, but somewhere it seems to click and they find no harm in agreeing to it.
The only problem would be the wicked hot chemistry between them and how they're going to control this attraction, since Adeline won't be staying.I loved the way they first met each other!It was so funny and hot!
And Adeline was a blast!The things that came out of her mouth had me cracking up hard!But at the same time due to her past,she's wary of trusting people and Jack has a hard time getting past her walls.
Jack was pretty easy and laidback.No alpha male stuff going on.So it was refreshing and mature for a change.
The story and the secondary characters were well developed and I loved how the plot progressed.
You should definitely give this book a try if you're looking for a cute romance with the fake relationship trope, but a well developed and different set of characters!
Jack is an accountant and in order to get the promotion he's been aiming for, he needs to play the part of a family man.And for that he needs a fake fiance.Adeline needs help in French before she goes off to Paris for culinary school.They're both hesitant about faking an engagement when Kinley proposes the idea, but somewhere it seems to click and they find no harm in agreeing to it.
The only problem would be the wicked hot chemistry between them and how they're going to control this attraction, since Adeline won't be staying.I loved the way they first met each other!It was so funny and hot!
And Adeline was a blast!The things that came out of her mouth had me cracking up hard!But at the same time due to her past,she's wary of trusting people and Jack has a hard time getting past her walls.
Jack was pretty easy and laidback.No alpha male stuff going on.So it was refreshing and mature for a change.
The story and the secondary characters were well developed and I loved how the plot progressed.
You should definitely give this book a try if you're looking for a cute romance with the fake relationship trope, but a well developed and different set of characters!
bananatricky's review against another edition
1.0
DNF at 56%.
Jack Foster needs a fake fiancee to get the promotion at work he wants. Adeline Rigby is friends with Jack's sister Kinley and wants to learn to speak french before she goes to culinary school in Paris. Kinley suggests a quid-pro-quo where Adie pretends to be Jack's fiancee and Jack teaches Adie french.
As someone else said in their review, this just seemed to be going through the motions, maybe the idea that a large accountancy firm would have a requirement for potential directors/partners to be married was just too much to swallow (as an accountant) on top of the fake fiancee plot.
Either way, I just didn't really warm to either Jack or Adie and DNF'd.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
Jack Foster needs a fake fiancee to get the promotion at work he wants. Adeline Rigby is friends with Jack's sister Kinley and wants to learn to speak french before she goes to culinary school in Paris. Kinley suggests a quid-pro-quo where Adie pretends to be Jack's fiancee and Jack teaches Adie french.
As someone else said in their review, this just seemed to be going through the motions, maybe the idea that a large accountancy firm would have a requirement for potential directors/partners to be married was just too much to swallow (as an accountant) on top of the fake fiancee plot.
Either way, I just didn't really warm to either Jack or Adie and DNF'd.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
lauraanne9's review against another edition
4.0
***ARC Provided by the Author and IndieSagePR***
I really enjoyed the first book in this series...well series might be the wrong word, even though there are some recurring characters from the first book...so I had high hopes for this one. And, I can say they were mostly met.
Adeline was wonderful and you really like Jake. He is a good guy, but he loves Adeline, and that was fun. You like both of the characters, and you relate to why they are attracted and to the reasons that maybe they are not going to be able to work. The idea that it was started as a pretend engagement means they didn't really have those "what will your life look like in the future" conversations because they didn't need to. And, this added an interesting element to the story.
That said, I thought the resolution of the issues was too easy. Yes, love conquers all in a romance, but at the same time, there is a certain amount of liberty when you are an author to decide exactly how tall a mountain love will have to climb. And, in this one, I thought the differences in what he wanted in a wife and what she wanted for her future were too quickly and easily resolved.
That said, I did believe that Jack and Adeline really did love one another, so quick resolution or not, I believed in it at the end, and that is what really matters.
I recommend this book.
I really enjoyed the first book in this series...well series might be the wrong word, even though there are some recurring characters from the first book...so I had high hopes for this one. And, I can say they were mostly met.
Adeline was wonderful and you really like Jake. He is a good guy, but he loves Adeline, and that was fun. You like both of the characters, and you relate to why they are attracted and to the reasons that maybe they are not going to be able to work. The idea that it was started as a pretend engagement means they didn't really have those "what will your life look like in the future" conversations because they didn't need to. And, this added an interesting element to the story.
That said, I thought the resolution of the issues was too easy. Yes, love conquers all in a romance, but at the same time, there is a certain amount of liberty when you are an author to decide exactly how tall a mountain love will have to climb. And, in this one, I thought the differences in what he wanted in a wife and what she wanted for her future were too quickly and easily resolved.
That said, I did believe that Jack and Adeline really did love one another, so quick resolution or not, I believed in it at the end, and that is what really matters.
I recommend this book.
hollaback77's review
5.0
Adeline Rigby will live with Accountant Jack Foster and pretend to be his fake fiancée for one month in order for him to seal a promotion to partner. In return, Accountant Jack Foster will intimately tutor Adeline Rigby in French before she leaves for Paris where she will fulfill her dream of attending Le Cordon Bleu.
The Terms:
1. Maintain distance. Three get-to-know-you dates before announcing their engagement will be tempting enough.
2. No kissing. Okay, fine. Three kisses. Maybe four. And neck kisses don’t count.
3. No touchy feely stuff. Or at least not too many public displays of touchy-feely stuff.
4. No sex.
5. All right, all right. One night of sex in order to be a believable engaged couple.
6. Two nights of mind-blowing sex to make sure first night wasn’t a fluke.
7. Absolutely, positively, no falling in love.
I really liked this book. The premise is one of those that's "been there and done that" but the actual book was great. The writing was stellar, and the characters were well fleshed out and funny. I would describe Adeline in one word - Aspergers. The girls got serious social skill issues. She says the wrong things at the wrong times, and she does the wrong things at the wrong times. I was sitting there reading and counting on my fingers all the symptoms of Aspergers she had. She reminded me of Temperance from Bones. Her directness and sometimes bordering on rudeness - that she didn't mean. I found this book refreshing! Jack, Oh Jack!! You are the perfect man! Dude kept me reading all night. If there were an accountant like Jack in our town, well he'd have our business. He was sweet, funny, sexy and did I mention sexy? I did, didn't I?
He meets Adie while she's dancing on a stripper pole and knocks herself out...Jack being the great guy he is and also being the responsible brother of Adie's best friend - get's manhandled into watching Adie by said sister. What starts out as a night of watching a concussed Adeline, turns into a proposal for a fake fiance for his accounting firm. Craziness, sadness, and outright hilarity ensue between these two and make this an absolute gem of a book for me. I would definitely pick up another novel written by Lisa Wells in a heartbeat.
I was given a copy of this ARC from the publisher on NetGalley for an honest review. All of the above comments are my express opinions and no one else's.
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