Reviews with content warning for Abandonment - The Fake Mate

noah taylor the man u are...

God, this was so good! I love Noah & Mack together and also having their fake relationship not be like all the hundred others I've read. Noah 120% falls first here while Mack is just like "the sex is good 🤷🏻‍♀" and I love seeing a man simping 🤭

With all the tropes, I was scared that this was gonna become one of those books that only consisted of tropes but everything was really fast-paced and I managed to read this so quickly.

The A/B/O stuff is well done but I don't think we would've needed the shifting! Just makes the worldbuilding that much more complicated and I feel like it didn't add much. Still torn on whether "alphas get discriminated against, too!" is really the storyline we need but it was also a nice new twist

Such a feel-good romance with amazing smut, 10/10 would rec

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hellowildflower's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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bushbabybookworm's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Five stars is not enough.
Also it’s 5🌶️.

This is a new favorite book, and I don’t care what that says about me.

Reads a lot like an Ali Hazelwood novel but MORE SPICY? I’m obsessed.

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kristinallard's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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modock's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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maggies's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I'll preface this by saying that apparently I didn't read the blurb closely enough because I did not realize this is an alpha/omega book. What I learned is that, if this book is emblematic of alpha/omega stories, they probably aren't for me. A bit too much emphasis on biological imperatives and traditional gender roles—and I would wager that this book probably has better impulses than most, given the lengthy discussions of nature vs nurture as well as Mack's strength and independence. Ultimately, the whole heat and knotting thing (truly like 50% of the book) just doesn't do it for me, but the smut was smutting. The dual POV was really well deployed, Dr. Martin was a great villain, and Mack and Noah's circle of family and friends felt like real people rather than just devices for their love story. Light, fun, sexy, but I won't be revisiting the alpha/omega world any time soon.

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hazelgirl21's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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rdawnd's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

A cute, mostly light hearted book. There were deeper character development points, but it stayed mostly superficial/not too dark. Potential spoiler:

I was led to believe there was no 3rd act break up but there totally was. Noah was blackmailed about their fake relationship and dumped Mackenzie instead of talking and explaining the situation to her. So yeah… I freaking hate things that could have been solved via communication.

Overall though cute with viiiivid sex scenes.

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