This is a single woman's guide to dating and understanding your life in ways you don't realize you need to. It reads similar to sex and the city and Carrie's column. I feel that some.of the friendship issues aren't only for single women. There have been many times that I, a married woman, felt unseen and pushed aside by friends. I've felt just like Sophie: there has to be a reason to meet with friends, what's the social etiquette for gift giving, and feeling overwhelmed by financial obligations in a wedding party. Honestly, I think the fake dating aspect could have been left out, and the book would still be a page-turner. I did get restless, waiting for the male main character to be introduced. Overall, it was a good book.

I hated the plot and especially the portrayal of single young women. I mean coming from a female author this portrayal just shocked me entirely. I thought the plot was something I would have enjoyed in my early teen years at most.

I loved the premise of a book and love a good fake dating romance! I thought the main character was probably relatable to a lot of people but unfortunately, I didn't find myself really connecting with her or her thought process at times. There were a lot of secondary characters that also had me lost on who was who and who mattered vs. who didn't, but overall I liked how the story progressed.

- Fake dating
- Social awkwardness

This book was a delightful departure from a traditional rom com. It has all of the feel of a rom com, but it was more about Sophie finding herself.

Sophie's social circle and her family are all paired up and Sophie is starting to feel she needs a partner to keep up. She becomes a serial dater, but hasn't had much luck. When she meets Harry, who answers her plea for a fake "plus one" for her sister's wedding, he is such fun to be with. But ultimately, does she see herself with him long term?

With Bridget Jones and When Harry Met Sally vibes, this book had me both cringing and smiling!

This was a DNF for me. I could handle how negative Sophie was that I had to put the book down. Not sure if it’s me because I’m middle aged and married, maybe this will be a better fit for singletons.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this arc ebook in exchange for an honest review.

I was excited to get an ARC of #FakingIt by Beth Reekles from #NetGalley, since I thoroughly enjoyed her previous book, Lockdown on London Lane. However, I must say that this new book was somewhat of a disappointment.
I found the main character Sophie to be relatively unlikeable, with her excessively emotional inner thoughts that smacked of teenaged angst despite her being 25 years old, and her non-stop woe-is-me point of view. Add to that the fact that her inner negative dialogue is repeated throughout the book ad nauseum, and I ended up just skimming entire sections, and even thought of tossing this on the DNF pile.
Although proficiently written, this book fell flat for me. It drags in many spots, and what promised to be a light, romantic read fell spectacularly short of its promise.

Honestly, I’m rather disappointed. I was expecting a romance/romantic comedy and feel this book was categorized incorrectly. I had a hard time getting into the book but once Sophie met Harry, I was expecting to be hooked reading about them falling in love and I kept reading hoping for more but it never came. Thank you again to the publisher and netgalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Not what I was expecting. I don't think I would classify this as a romance, maybe more of a self-love type book. I love the author's other series but this one fell flat for me. The characters annoyed me a little bit and I really really wanted romance. However the writing was good and the story kept me interested it just wasn't what I wanted to read at the moment.

I am so sad because I wanted to like this book more than I ended up liking it. I loved the fake dating aspect of the book. It had a really good idea, it felt unfinished. The book itself was far too long. The FMC felt very whiny throughout the book and the MMC felt as though he randomly took over more of the story I will give this a reread when it is released but for now I just "Liked" it.

I am so sad because I want to like this book more than I ended up liking it. I loved the fake dating aspect of the book. It had a really good idea, it just fell short for me.

Sophie was very whiny throughout the whole story. It was hard to even want to like her because of how much she complained about everything. She didn't treat her friends the best and then got upset whenever they didn't do something for her.

I feel like Jaxon took a bigger role in the book than he should have. I forgot he was even in the story until she talked about him after ghosting her... again.

I also went in expecting a cutesy HAE romcom book and ended up off the other end with a "finding yourself" story. It led you to believe so much that Sophie and Harry had a good thing going. They seemed to have a connection and I was really looking forward to them finally getting together, just for her to realize she wants to be single. The ending was definitely not for me!

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC in exchange for an honest review!

To start, this book was much too long. It could and should have been much shorter in my opinion. Secondly, we didn’t meet the “main love interest” until 33% into the book, which makes more sense when I got to the end of the book and understood that the main point of this book is not romance but self discovery. I personally didn’t love any of the characters and thought the main character was very whiny and her situation was exaggerated to an extreme, but maybe that’s just me. I was disappointed that I pushed through to finish the book to be so let down by the ending of the book. This book should not be advertised as a romance. The ending of chapters and the starting of the next chapter was very abrupt sometimes and made for choppy transitions and caused the story to lack a smooth flow.

I loved this book so much!!

from the author of The Kissing Booth (which i read on wattpadd years ago and loved) and here is another brilliant story, i loved all of this and without giving any spoilers would highly recommend giving a read.

Smashed it with another fab book!!

I can't say that I loved this book. You can't market a book as a romcom/romance and have little to no romance in the novel. The main character focuses entirely too much on how single she is, and it gets old fast. I don't think that at the age of 25 the MC should be so focused on what her life "lacks" because she doesn't have a partner. I could understand and let that go but let's not even talk about the ending.

The ending is the kind of thing that, had this been a print copy of a book, I'd have tossed it across the room. I'm not someone who ALWAYS needs a satisfying ending, but I also need an unsatisfying ending to make sense to the story, and I don't feel that it did in this instance.

I really enjoyed the Kissing Booth series, so I was so excited when I saw the newest book by Beth Reekles. I really tried to like this one, but don’t think this one was for me.



Sophie is a mid-twenties singleton feels pressured by loved ones to fall in love and settle down. Tired of all the comments, she decides to find a date (real or otherwise) for her sister’s wedding. She finds Harry, a recently divorced charmer who is willing to step in to play her fake date, and they end up mutually being each other’s plus ones over the course of the book. Though as they do, the lines on what’s fake and real begin to blur.



The book fell fairly flat for me. The story felt a bit repetitive and definitely stalled in several sections of the book; it felt like a slog to get through some portions of it. I also didn’t have much investment in the main characters (though I did like Harry). My biggest dislike was that I found Sophie a bit not very relatable and not particularly likable. Even though she’s only 25, she’s obsessed with finding love, especially with all her friends and family pressuring her to get married and start a family - which I don’t think really holds true nowadays. It really made Sophie’s character fairly one dimensional and lackluster; she almost felt like a caricature instead of a fully developed character. While there was some growth toward the end of the book with Sophie’s character, which was nice to see, I absolutely hated the ending.



Thank you NetGalley and Wattpad Books for the ARC!

I really wanted to like this book and I think the summary does it a disservice. This is not a traditional rom-com with a happily every after. This is more women’s fiction and how to be comfortable with being single. There is some romantic elements, but it’s not a rom-com.

I received an ARC from the publisher and Netgalley.

So, ok. I did not like it.
I wanted to like it, but I did not.
First, it drug SO BAD. Like that was the longest 400 pages of my life. It took me 3 days to read this book and I typically put back about 3o0 pages a day. 25% into the book we met the MMC. 100 pages of her not even knowing who he was.

This book was filled with so much nonsense I can't even put it into words because my brain is a fried egg. The rambling, the hanging arcs (what was Jaxon doing with all of his time? wtf?).the sheer amount of telling vs showing was insurmountable. I am unwell.

What I did like, if this book would have followed some sort of plot line and had content editing, was that we got to know the MFC Sophie before she entered into the relationship with Harry. I also liked Harry- he was honest, flawed, fun and easy going. I despised whiny, needy blah blah blah Sophie.

AND THERE WAS NO HEA. HOW WAS THIS CATEGORIZED AS A ROMANCE WITHOUT THE HEA.
Would have given it 3 stars, I get why someone else would like it but not for me if the ending didn't totally suck monkey balls.

Will not read again. Will not recommend. Wish I had DNF.

A fun read, some parts dragged for me. It was an honest look at the pressures of dating and single life.

Faking it is a story of a single girl, Sophie, who has a lot of bad dates from swiping right. Her family and friends are always bugging her to find a good man and she gets sick of the pressure so she finds a guy to be her fake boyfriend. This book made my laugh out loud so many times reading it. It definitely gives off Bridget Jones vibes. I recommend this book to people who like a good rom com that will make you laugh and feel all the feels. No spice really but the story itself is so good that I don’t miss it.

I just reviewed Faking It by Beth Reekles. #FakingIt #NetGalley

A poetically messy lovestory between Sophie and her singleness.

Honestly everyone here has atleast once questioned why everyone around them seems to be falling in love, and they're just forgotten behind. But our girl Sophie kept bouncing back up, even after being knocked down countless times.

So take a page out of Sophie's blog, grab your (largest possible) wine glass, take your self out to a cozy dinner/bar/cafe for a self date, and fall into reading Faking It for the afternoon.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of Faking It in return for an honest review. Truly enjoyed this read.

Beth Reekles never disappoints! This is for sure one of my favorite books of hers. She first got my interest with her book from the Netflix hit starring Joey King and Jacob Elordi . This was such a relatable, funny, and heartfelt book about what it means to be single. I loved every minute if it and couldn’t wait to see how it all turned out! I love it so much I gifted it to all my girlfriends and will be making it our next book club selection. It was that good! I absolutely can’t wait for her next book!