I really enjoyed this book! I love reading books where people come from different social circles and they form a relationship. The character development was wonderful and the relationships between the different characters was believable. This book is fun and a quick read. Definitely recommend it.

It has a very interesting premise. And I really wanted to love it; however, the book failed at what it attempted to accomplished. I think that it did a good job setting the scene up, but there needs to be a second book to wrap everything up in a way that doesn't feel rushed. There needs to be more development.

3.5 stars

When I read the description for this book I was pretty excited. Then that beautiful cover reeled me more in. But sadly this book lacked Romance.

On the first few chapters I was thrilled. I love when the Lead girl doesn't fall for the MC right away. Specially I love the Love/hate relationships, which I was hoping on this book when I read she couldn't stand Archie. But that didn't last for long.

Another thing is that they didn't have so many scenes together which I didn't like at all. I appreciate when a lead girl doesn't stick like glue to the Male Lead but not to this point. I also know that some leads can win your heart with one sentence but I didn't feel it in this book.

I wish I could of love Archie More because usually I love this type of MC's but maybe because this book lack of interaction between the leads I couldn't see Archie in more facets that would of attract me.

I did love the female lead and more her interactions with her bestfriend. They saved this book in my point of view. I didn't love her as a set (with the MC) but I loved her as a individual.

Overall I didn't hate it but I didn't love it.

"Received an advance reader copy in exchange for a fair review"

Katie Heaney is the best & I was ecstatic to hear she had another book out. This one might just be my new favorite. It was just so much fun in very great pop culture-y way. If they don't turn this into a full length feature film I'll be mighty disappointed.
I'll definitely be recommending it to my patrons as well as everyone I personally know.

Rose Reed is up and coming, working for a company as a PR who's due to meet with British singer songwriter Archie Fox. Only, her boss is leaving the company the day their meeting is set for.

Rose manages to save the meeting by suggesting a fake romance is staged between Archie and new indie star Raya, Rose has full trust from Archie's front as it was his request despite the lack of confidence from the company Rose works for.

Rose sets them up and plans meetings etc with Raya and her publicist but finds herself with growing feelings and therefore unprofessional interest in her now client Archie after they start texting each other and having late night conversations.

Rose's best friend Harper, is a lesbian and so no jealousy between the friends a occurs which is refreshing. She is totally happy with Rose and Archie growing closer together after seeing how many times Tinder hasn't produced a boyfriend match longer than a couple of dates, for her best friend.

I really enjoyed this book, Archie comes across as a typical guy in the music industry only he seems to be nicer than some stars in real life though still a heartthrob type to the girls. It's great to see a story focus a on staged love and real love happening over time. It was an engaging, thrilling read which I thank the publisher for allowing me to review it for them.

Rose is a twenty-something in Manhattan, trying to move up the ranks at her PR firm. Rose's boss can't make a meeting about how to boost the flagging career of British dinger-songwriter Archie, so Rose is asked to sit in, take notes, and keep her mouth shut. But when a colleague's horrible proposals start to tank the meeting, Rose blurts out her own idea: a fauxmance between Archie and an up-and-coming indie singer.

Archie not only approves the fauxmance idea, he asks Rose to act as his handler during it, despite the fact that her firm thinks she's too junior for the job. And -- of course -- as Rose is masterminding every romantic detail of Archie's new relationship, she's falling hard for him herself.

I've always had a weird fascination with celebrity fauxmances, but usually books about them have the pretending-to-be couple fall for each other, so I liked that this book gave things a new twist. I'm not usually the biggest fan of love-with-a-celebrity stories, but this one won me over.

Rose was a really great main character and - as a former twenty-something who's lived the non-glamorous life in Manhattan - thought the book really got all the small details right. Weirdly, my very favorite parst of the book were 1) learning how fauxmances work from behind the scenes and 2) all the PR stuff. I was fascinated by the way Rose tracked the success of the fauxmance on Twitter and Instagram.

The romance was sweet and very slow-burn, and I thought that all even the minor characters -- from Rose's bff Harper to her boss to the indie singer -- were fully realized.

Definitely check this one out if you're a fauxmance fan like me or just looking for a cute romance!

Going into a book like this you know what you're getting into: normal girl meets celebrity and romance ensues. However, you hope that the writing and the romance will make such a book worth your while. It is called guilty pleasure for a reason, and done right it can make for a wonderful read. Unfortunately, this is not that kind of book.

I wouldn't call it a slow burn simply because the "burn" part was quite lacking. The main characters hardly have any time together in the book, there are maybe 5 interactions total. It's a story about infatuation rather than love, since most of their interactions are fairly insignificant. It wasn't until 80% through the book that they even get together. The romance in this book gets lost in the overwhelming amount of industry talk.

I was kind of surprised by the amount of time taken to talk about Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter. For a novel called "Public Relations" one would expect some industry talk, but the amount of time dedicated to what the character was doing on each platform was rather excessive. It felt like the authors were trying to prove their knowledge of the PR industry rather than crafting a story.

It often reads like a trends report, and the problem with trends is that they don't last. The story dates itself with chatter of Vine (which has been shut down) and "unsolved murder mystery documentaries". Even the male lead was a not-so-thinly-veiled Harry Styles type (British-check, curly hipster hair-check, bird tattoos on chest-double check).

I will say that most of the characters were quite well developed. The authors, for the most part, managed to stay away from relying on tropes to further the story. Rose was an engaging main character. However, for having such a strong sense of self in terms of her career, I just wish some of that had translated to her personal life as well.

Public Relations is not a tedious read by any means, but neither is it one you get swept up in.

I received an advance reader copy (from Netgalley) in exchange for a fair review. Thanks to Grand Central Publishing and the author(s) for a chance to review this.

I was in a little bit of a depressive slump when I requested this. It seemed up my alley and the cover did stand out to me among all of the others in Netgalley and the plot sounded like a cute one. There's been a lot of romances (or faux shomances) in fiction and television as of late and this is a nice addition to the pile.

The characters were fully realized and I liked the extra little touches in the book regarding the PR-ness that Rose navigates between Archie and Raya while also becoming a "slow burn" type of novel in regards to Rose and her feelings for Archie. This ones definitely a cute addition to the genre and definitely lifted my mood.