This is a fun cosy read. It may be a tad predictable but that doesn’t take away from the story or the characters. This was a feel good romance with a little spice.

I look forward to reading about the other sisters in upcoming books.

Thank you to NetGalley, Amy Boyles and Ladybugbooks for this arc

I loved the book. It's a fun enemies-to-lovers story. I admit, I was tempted to close the book at the 75% mark when it became obvious that there would be a big drama, but it's a romance, so they have a beautiful happy end.
It feels quite "normal" for a fae king story, and I greatly enjoyed that. They do a lot of mundane - or at least non-magical things. The magic is always there, but most of the time, it's more in the background and not bragging with all its power - if that makes sense.
I can even accept the miscommunication, which is one of my least favorite tropes, but it made sense and was explained nicely, rather than just being a lazy stylistic device to bring some drama (which it did, of course).

It's easy to see where the series goes and I have to admit, I'm not sure if I will continue it, but I'll make a note to have at least a look.

How to fake it with a fae By Amy Boyles
Release date 25th February 2024
Rating 4.5 stars
I enjoyed this book more than I was expecting. I clicked on it on netgalley because the cover looked fun and I was looking for something to help me read a bit more consistently this month. This book did not disappoint. It had me chuckling, being angry and crying all at once. This is a story of a witch called Addison who doesn’t have her magic, but she loves books. As soon as this was mentioned I was like yes I am going to love her. She is forced to go home when her Nana dies before she gets there, she meets Feylin, the king of the fae and the chemistry before them is sizzling off the page as of course they hate each other. This is until Feylin makes a declaration that means the pair of them have to pretend to date and want to get married. We then have the will they won’t they, which was so well written that I was surprised that within a few hours I was already 80 percent into the book and it would be soon coming to an end. This was what I have been looking for in a book I could just enjoy and I gobbled it up and I am so interested and invested with the ending and how the next book is going to play out I do hope that I won’t have to wait too long for it. Thank you for Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book. It was just what I needed. This is where I say to people who sometimes wonder to take a chance on a book because you never know where it will take you and it maybe just what you need for the moment you are in.

ˏˋ°•*⁀➷・❥・“𝓑𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓲𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓲𝓼𝓷'𝓽 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓭𝓸𝓮𝓼𝓷'𝓽 𝓮𝔁𝓲𝓼𝓽.”・❥・ˏˋ°•*⁀➷

➸ 4.25 stars
~spolier-free review💫~

Thank you to NetGalley, Victory Editing and the author for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. This review has been posted on Goodreads @fadheela ♡

Ngl, I applied for this book when I saw the cover, I mean let's agree on the fact that we judge the book by its cover🤭 And I was sold when I saw the plot was enemies to lovers😩🏳 But I'm glad I applied for the book because the inside was as beautiful as the outside of the book💗✨

This book was overall so cute, and so comfy to read. I didn't feel like I was forcing myself to read this, it was like a magnet attracting me to keep reading this, the further I went😋 What actually surprised me while reading this was the perfect mix of fae & witch world in a modern-day romance, I was completely expecting it to be a roman empire era tho🙈✋🏻


・❥・𝓕𝓮𝔂𝓵𝓲𝓷 & 𝓐𝓭𝓭𝓲𝓮・❥・

~“I'm done with men.”~
✨𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞✨ She is the witch without magic, fierce, optimistic, bold, kind, cares and loves her family so much that she is ready to marry someone, even when she is going through a nasty breakup, bottles up her emotions so that no one knows🥺

~“Watching her is like looking at an angel come to earth. That proves it- I've lost my mind.”~
✨𝐅𝐞𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐧✨ He is the fae king, smart, can cook, adamant, arrogant, but all in all a thorough gentleman😩💘 When the world gave up on Addie, he never gave up on her, helped her to find what she is always meant to be🤧

They ate up the whole book, I loved them so much. Their banters were on another level❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
Their chemistry and the tension between them-OH MY GOD, it made me bite my nails off😮‍💨😮‍💨

Characters I loved the most is Ryals (the cutest), Trawick (the mentor), and Addie's sisters ofc especially Blair🤭💖
Characters I hate the most is Edward and Zandra, they both deserve what they got, I want someone to poison them and kill them for me💀🔪 (you'll have to read the book to find out, no spoilers😉)


❥𝓢𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓶𝔂 𝓯𝓪𝓿 𝓶𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓯𝓮𝔂𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓪𝓭𝓭𝓲𝓮💌:

~“Ah, if it isn't the puker.”
“If it isn't Mr. Arrogant.”~

~“We've reached the physical-battery stage of our relationship, I see.”
“We don't have a relationship.”~

~“I don't date arrogant men anyway.”
“And I don't date pukers.”~

~“I didn't catch your name.”
“That's because I didn't throw it at you.”~

~“To keep you happy? Anything.”
“You don't have to be sarcastic.”~

~“So you agree?”
“I agree to ever so happily be your fiancée.”~

~“Terrible, evil witch to remember our bargain, that was the second secret.”
“What was?”
“That I'm impressed with how well you've fawned over me.”~

~“You feel this, don't you? This, that's between us.”
“Whatever you feel, I feel ten times more.”~

~“I'm trying to torment you.”
“Please. Torment me more.”~

~“I'm going to let you enter, but on one condition.”
“What's that?”
“No squealing, no hugging me, and no screaming.”
“You really think I would lose my senses and hug you?”
“Yes.”~

~“Are you going to tell me the story?”
“Only because you're such delightful company.”
“I'm going to pretend you mean that.”
“I do mean it.”~

~“Have to get the final word in, don't you?”
“Only when it comes to you.”~

~“You look more beautiful than you did yesterday, and I didn't think that was possible.”~

~“You cook?”
“Surprisingly I'm not just a pretty face.”~

~“Being with you these past few weeks has made me realize what I was missing out on, and I never want to go back to that place again.”~

~“You, Addison Thornrose, you have wrecked me.”~


I hope I have convinced you enough to read this book with these quotes above🤭💗

How to Fake it with a Fae by Amy Boyles
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Thank you to NetGalley, Victory Editing and the author for the opportunity to review this via e-arc and provide my unbiased opinion. This review has been posted on Goodreads, Facebook and via Instagram @tinydragonbooks.

Twenty-nine year old booklover Addie Thornrose is a witch with no magic. The eldest of the seven Thornrose sisters has been unlucky in love- not powerful enough for wizards and too different for a human to date. But having been coupled with Edward Blackwood, from the prominently magical Blackwood family, for 6 months, Addie thinks she’s finally found someone accepting of her handicap. So when, on the night she believes a proposal is incoming, Edward callously breaks up with her, Addie finds herself heartsick and hopeless. A family emergency tugs her back to the supernatural community of Castleview, a portal journey that ends with her vomiting on the fancy shoes of a rude, and ridiculously muscular, man.
With her grandmothers passing, the magic of the Thornrose coven is in jeopardy and Addie (and her sisters) must marry to continue their family line and retain their powers. When a run in at a Witches Ball with Edward leads to being bound by magic to handsome Feylin (aka. Mr Vomit-shoes and Fae King), Addie is forced to remain by his side until they can find a way out of the spell.
But what will she do when her feelings go from ‘fake’ to ‘for real’?

Gosh, I enjoyed this book! How to Fake it with a Fae is chock full of pop culture references that made me grin like an idiot, including a Legally Blonde restaurant break up scene, a Little Mermaidesque family of seven sisters (all with different coloured hair) and named alphabetically (a la’ Bridgerton). Addie’s first person narration was funny and relatable and any read with a Henry Cavill lookalike love interest gets an A+ in my book.
Contemporary fantasy romance is one of my favourite genres at the moment and this has the spice, the banter and the squeal moments that make a great love story. I also appreciate the whimsical township setting with thatched roof cottages and sentient plants. The nod to one of my favourite old time musicals (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) also won my heart.

How to Fake it With a Fae is romantic comedy with fantasy elements, such as witches, wizards, fae, and magical bookshops. It’s a light hearted enemies to lovers book.

I went into this book knowing it was going to be light and more romance than romantasy, but I still had a hard time getting into it. I think the premise of this book is great and it had a lot of potential, but there were many cringey moments to me as well as a miscommunication trope towards the end. Maybe these types of books aren’t my thing, but there were many moments that I physically cringed or got annoyed with the characters.

Addie is our mfc and she is very self doubting and could be quite annoying at times. She’s the “black sheep” of her family as she is the only one without magic. I did feel bad for her, but there were many times she admitted her family was always there for her despite her lack of magic, yet she always put herself down because of men. I wish she could’ve been a stronger female lead rather than doubt herself and self deprecate throughout the whole book.

Feylin was a great mmc until the end. I felt bad for him loosing his first wife. But what he did in the end is unforgivable to me, despite “making it right.” He started to display some toxic traits towards the end.

I also wanted to mention that puke or puking was brought up MANY times. I personally cannot handle that and wished the author didn’t focus on it so much. At one point Feylin even called Addie “puker” while they were flirting, almost as a pet name. To me that’s just gross.

I think this story might be great for others, but unfortunately it was not the best for me.

Publication date: February 25th, 2024, by Ladybugbooks LLC. I want to thank NetGalley and the publisher for giving me an eARC of How to Fake it With a Fae. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

“Well, the one upside is that I’m not a virgin, so he can’t drink my blood.”

In this cozy romcom, we follow our eldest Thornrose witch, Addie.
After the sudden death of her grandmother, Addison Thornrose finds herself being prepped to marry off. Her spectacular witch ball does not go as planned though, and she finds herself engaged to the last person she expects: the Fae King, Feylin who also just so happens to have a grudge against her family.

Throughout this book, we get a perfect touch of cozy fantasy, comedy, and a sizzling romance to top it off. Sunshine Addie and Grumpy Feylin created a spectacular story.

I thoroughly enjoyed this story, and loved Amy Boyles’ writing. These characters had depth and charm that she captured perfectly, and left me pining for Feylin myself. I thoroughly enjoyed the southern twang the Thornrose family portrayed, especially the flying skillets instead of brooms! That had me giggling.

This book is book one out of seven in the Seven Suitors for Seven Witches series, and I’m excited to see how the next book plays out!

Thank you to Amy Boyles and NetGalley for selecting me for this ARC review. All opinions on this book are my own.

How to Fake It With a Fae is the first in a series of interconnected standalone romances following seven witch sisters' individual romances. The book focuses on Addison Thornrose, the eldest sister who has no magic, and because of that fact, can't seem to retain a boyfriend. In order to prevent her family's magic from sizzling out, she reluctantly participates in a Bridgerton-style ball to find a suitor. Feylin is the king of fae who comes to the ball seeking revenge on the Thornrose family for reasons unknown, and the two find themselves locked in an ancient magical fae bond. Feylin proposes a fake relationship until they can break the bond, and the arrangement seems like it will be mutually beneficial; until the tension between them grows too hard to ignore.

To start off with the positives, I was immediately intrigued by the premise of the seven sisters, each with an interesting personality, magical specialty, and charm. This book is primarily a romance with fantasy elements, so I did not expect any in-depth worldbuilding in regards to the magical parts, but was pleasantly surprised by what WAS included. The writing is easy to read, and the plot is straightforward.

For the issues I had with the book: the first was that I didn't particularly like the main characters. I was mildly put off by some of the insta-love scenes, especially in the early stage when they were supposed to show some distaste for the other. The predictability in romance books is only alright if it is backed up with strong, emotionally arousing characters and their equally endearing connection to each other but I found their introduction to each other jarring and unnatural. Perhaps because of that, I couldn't truly support their relationship wholeheartedly.

The second is in the dialogue. I know a lot of lines in romance books are hard to really imagine being said out loud, if it were something heartfelt or particularly moving, but I found just the normal conversations being carried out from grown characters speaking like a teenager just exceedingly offputting, but it wasn't bad enough to make me stop reading.

I think the series is still hopefully worth a read, as I usually find the first book in a romance series wanting, and the rest to be great. I am very much looking forward to Blair's book, since I really liked all the scenes that included her and Devlin. Unfortunately How to Fake It With a Fae was just okay for me.

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

A cute, cozy read that had a lot of sarcastic banter and other parts that made me laugh (like the Southern witches riding cast iron skillets, naturally).

Very cheesy - gave me “Assistant to the Villain” vibes, but with some spice added to it. I personally am not big on spicy scenes, so this knocked it down a star for me (again, personally), however I would rate it a 4 star based on the rest of the content.

Tropes included: Forced proximity. Arranged(ish) marriage. Enemies to lovers.

A huge thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for a review!

eARC - thank you netgalley, Amy Boyles, and Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op

In this cozy RomCom with fantasy characters (witches/wizards, fae with humans) set in modern USA, we have a sunshiney bookish FMC (witch) who needs to marry for her family to hold onto their magic. Opposite her we have a grumpy fae king who has a secret vendetta to enact upon a family in town. When our main characters find themselves in a magically bound fake engagement they get more than they bargained for. There’s banter, tension, and fancy balls - dances. I have to say, I’m slightly concerned with how many times I had to remind myself what kind of balls were being talked about. 🤭

I love a cozy fantasy and/or RomCom read; I really love it when I get 2 in 1. This story has an added bonus of books being a theme throughout. It’s fun and funny. There was one part I wasn’t super into: consensual spice that felt coerced by forces out of their control; however, the characters didn’t seem bothered by it. As the reader I wasn’t sure how to feel about it. Overall, this was a great low stakes read!

There were parts of this book that I really enjoyed. The magic bookshop where you can jump into the story sounded so fun and I wish we could have seen more of it. I’m also very intrigued by the Grandma.

I wasn’t a fan of the joining magic or having to marry off all the daughters in order to keep the magic.

I’m still undecided about if I’ll continue with the series but the epilogue was promising.

This enchanting fantasy romcom provided a delightful departure from more intricate fantasy and romantasy genres I've recently explored. In need of a respite from extensive world-building, this fast-paced read proved to be the perfect choice. The humorous banter between the main characters added a delightful touch, prompting genuine moments of laughter. Unexpectedly, the narrative concluded with a compelling cliffhanger. While the simplicity of the storyline and its entertainment value served as an effective palate cleanser, earning it a rating of 3.75 stars!! Excited to see more from this author.

This was a funny and quirky rom com filled with magic, fae, and references that made me laugh! I'm totally interested in the rest of the series.

Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. Well, I certainly did and it definitely didn’t disappoint me.

I liked how the fantasy world was intertwined with the real world. There were gowns and royal balls but also jeans and Henry Cavill. The story was easy to follow and it was a very quick read for me (one day).

Addison and Feylin hate each other from the moment they lay eyes on each other, or do they? The chemistry between these two characters is crazy and the build up makes you craving for more. I love it when the main characters have a lot of fire in them and are very stubborn.

••Thank you to Ladybugbooks and Netgalley for the ARC••

**I was provided with an ARC from Netgalley for a honest review**
3.5 ⭐️
This was such a cute little fantasy romcom! I’ve been reading some really heavy fantasy/romantasy and needed a little break. My head couldn’t handle any more world building and this was the perfect, fast paced read I wanted. The banter between the two main characters were so funny and I couldn’t help myself laughing out loud at points. And I was in no way expecting that cliffhanger at the end! Amy! What were you thinking?? 😂😂 can’t wait to read the other stories that I’m sure will continue after this one. After all there are seven sister forced to get married sooner rather than later. 😏

This was absolutely fabulous. I loved it from start to finish, I couldn't put it down. The characters were so lovable and the story was great. I cannot wait for the next!
Thank you to the author, publisher and netgalley for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Freaking PERFECTION. 10/10. This was just so so good. I couldn’t get enough of it and wanted a thousand more pages of this.

How to Fake it with a Fae follows Addison Thornrose, who is a witch with no magical powers and her tails of dating and her fake relationship with Feylin, who is the king of the Fae. Their story is a classic enemies to lovers tail but with a lot of funny moments across the book, making it a true rom com. This is a very modern tale, as it has a long of current lingo.

I loved that we did get some chapters from the POV of Feylin, I do love dual POV books but most of the book is single POV given by Addison.

If I had to describe this book I would say this is a rom com with a sprinkle of Fantasy, as it is very romance heavy. This book had a lot of funny moments, there were a lot of parts that I was laughing at Addison's thoughts.

When I requested this ARC I did not see that it will be a series but I enjoyed this book and I cannot wait to see where the story will take us. I love the idea of each book focusing on a different sister.

Thank you to Ladybugbooks and Netgalley for this arc the above review is my own thoughts.

I enjoyed this book. It is a very light-hearted and quick read. It's good when you are looking for a book that isn't too heavy.

I really enjoyed the fake relationship and forced proximity. I liked the slow development of the relationship between Feylin and Addie.

I also liked the magic in this world. Who doesn't want a store where you can enter your favourite books? However, I felt like there could have been more information about the magic. The main premise of the book is that the family's magic is fading and the daughters marrying will help but it is never explained why. However, as such a light-hearted read I was willing to overlook this and this will possibly be explored in a future book in the series.

However, there were plot points in the last ~25% of the book that I just didn't personally like. I don't want to say any more and give spoilers. This is what stopped this book receiving 5 stars from me.

I am planning on continuing this series. It seems to be set up for a Bridgerton style series, where each book will follow a different sibling. I enjoyed the author's writing style and despite not liking some of the plot, I'll try out the next book.

I would recommend it for romantasy fans who are looking for a quick and gentle read.

Thanks to NetGalley, Amy Boyles and Ladybugbooks LLC for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

This makes it on my list of favorite books, and I can't wait to read the future ones for Addison's sisters. Addison had a great and very entertaining voice with the perfect level of internal snark for being such a people pleaser with her family. Feylin was so interesting, although I would have liked to hear a little bit more about his family background aside from just having Ryals (who I loved and was adorable) around. The banter between Addison and Feylin was hilarious, and the many unfortunate events were so perfectly rom com. It definitely gave me Bridgerton vibes but with a twist of Disney's Encanto thrown in. My only complaint (which ending up being remedied in the plot) was that I feel like Feylin went a little far in the end while they were separated and didn't do nearly enough groveling to come back after it. But, overall, absolutely fantastic book.