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ebook: The Memory Palace by Nate DiMeo
audiobook: My Big Fat Fake Marriage by Charlotte Stein

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I didn‘t know that this rom-com would be like watching someone who just binged TED LASSO play with Barbies… I mean, if you know the show, the male lead very vividly leaps off the page. But it feels more like fan fiction than anything else… plus I have to admit that the spice level went from erotic pocket digging to actually kinda gross graphic in no time! I literally said, “Eewwww!” But maybe I prefer closed door though fake dating is a fun trope.

This was not what I expected the novel to be. No, it wasn't bad!

Connie distrusts nice guys, they will do a 180 sooner than later and hurt her. Also, her mother told her what men are looking for in a woman and she tries her best to be that kind of woman (like contacts instead of glasses, heels not flats), although deep down she is a different person.

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Low pick

This love interest is definitely for someone, but not really for me. I liked our MC Connie/Hazel (though her names I found a bit weird, you think Hazel isn't a cool name so you have people call you Connie?)
The 🌶️ was just right, but I found it all a bit hard to believe (our love interest is a virgin...)
Mostly I was thinking not for me, but good for them the whole time. 😂

I can‘t remember the last full-length book I finished in one day! I really enjoyed the first in this series inspired by the hit TV show Ted Lasso, Grumpy Meets Sunshine, where the love interest was based on Roy Kent, but this wholesome, filthy romance between an earnest, kind, inexperienced literary editor a la Ted Lasso and a jaded aspiring novelist was even hotter and even more fun! Charlotte Stein‘s rom-coms are now must-reads for me!