Title: The Fake Wedding Project

Author: Pippa Grant

Rating: ★★★★

Returning home for a short visit, faking an engagement to Dane’s secret high school crush, Amanda Anderson, was definitely not on his to-do list.

But when Amanda announces that she’s Dane’s fiancée, he decides to play along with the charade. Why, you ask? Because the Andersons and Silvers of Tinsel, Michigan, are like the Capulets and Montagues—locked in a ridiculous feud. By pretending to be Romeo and Juliet, they might just bring peace to our Christmas-themed hometown.

Amanda, a professional dog walker, and Dane, an engineer with a love for dogs, have to show their families what they all have in common. Easy, right? But with the town's infernal holiday cheer and the heat of their fake wedding plans, Amanda and Dane can’t seem to keep their hearts out of it.

This book is a funny and cute holiday read that warmed by heart and tickled my funny bone!. Pippa Grant masterfully blends humour, romance, and a touch of festive magic, making you root for Amanda and her charming engineer every step of the way.

The chemistry between the characters is electrifying, and their journey from fake to possibly real love is filled with laughter, warmth, and Christmas spirit. A great Christmas read and a great Romeo and Juliet retelling.

"The Fake Wedding Project" is perfect for fans of holiday romcoms, charming small towns, and a good fake relationship trope. It's a joyous read that left me smiling long after you turn the last page.


Thank you to The Publisher Montlake, the author Pippa Grant & Netgalley for an advanced reader copy (ARC) in exchange for my honest review.

Sinopsis en español:

Fingir un compromiso con mi enamorado secreto de la escuela secundaria no estaba en mi lista de tareas pendientes cuando aterricé para una breve visita a casa. Pero cuando Amanda Anderson anuncia que es mi prometida, doy un salto y juego con la farsa. ¿Por qué? Porque los Capulets y Montagues no tienen nada sobre los Andersons y Silvers de Tinsel, Michigan. En nombre de traer la paz a nuestra ciudad natal con temática navideña y a nosotros mismos, interpretaremos el papel de Romeo y Julieta. Si nuestros familiares piensan que estamos enamorados, tendrán que poner fin a esta ridícula disputa. ¿Verdad? Amanda es una paseadora de perros profesional, y yo soy una ingeniera que ama a los perros, ¿qué tan difícil podría ser mostrar a nuestras familias qué más tenemos en común? Sin embargo, el calor y la alegría navideña infernal de esta ciudad me están molestando la cabeza. Y una vez que empezamos a hacer nuestros planes de boda falsos, parece que no puedo mantener mi corazón fuera de ello.






Siento que este no fue el típico libro de Pippa, lo sentí más serio que sus anteriores trabajos, pero no deja de tener comedia.

Lo malo es lo lo sentí muy corto.

Tanto como Amanda como Dane fueron buenos personajes. Me gustó que los pudimos conocer dejando a lado el romance. No significa que no haya romance sino que tuvimos de ellos como personas y como pareja.



Gracias NetGalley, el publicista y la autora por el ARC, lo disfruté mucho.

Blurting out that you’re engaged to someone from your family’s sworn enemy list isn’t how Amanda Anderson saw her day starting. But she does, and then she has to live with the lie, convince the guy she said she was engaged to to help her perpetuate it, and prevent herself from falling in love with him.

This Romeo and Juliet -Lite – retelling was a cute and quick read.

The reason for the family feud is revealed, eventually, but before that the hero and heroine must live through a week of wedding plans from their family’s trying to one-up the other, and try to keep the act of eternal love going.

The writing was solid, as was the plot. The two things that bothered me about the story most was the use of the word “DICK” by EVERYONE to describe bad behavior of other people. As in, “Don’t be a dick about it,” and “Stop being a dick.” I could understand if this was said by one character as a character quirk. But everyone in the book said it and that made me feel as if the characters were a little flat.
Also, the “sex scenes”: while I love the English language, the way body parts were described I felt was a little trashy for this kind of book and didn’t fit the character’s “voices.”

3.5 stars from me. Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a sneak peak. I think this book will do very well when it’s released.

I absolutely love this author and everything she writes. This book....I devoured like all of her others. Thank you so much for the ARC!

What a decidedly lovely five-star read. I love Christmas, so I completely get wanting it all year round, but I do feel that after a few years of it, I would be like Amanda and Zane and be wanting to stay away from it, and not get folded into the mix. There are a couple of predictable moments in the story, but they are few and far between and overall get lots in the story. This was a really cute story, and if you are looking for some holiday cheer, or even just some cheer then this is certainly a story for you.

Por lo regular me cuesta adentrarme en las a historias de los libros de Pippa por su sentido de humor, pero en esta ocasión no ocurrió.



Los Andersons y los Silvers han sido rivales en lo comercial y enemigos por años. Nadie sabe porque llevan décadas de enemistad y no les importa, se insultan en cada oportunidad, tiene prohibido confratenizar entre ellos y ni hablar de ser amigos.


Amanda Andersons era la chica popular en la escuela. Dane Silvers era tímidos y estuvo enamorado de ella en la secundaria, pero nunca se atrevió a decírselo.


Cuando la abuela de Amanda le informa que le dará la batuta para dirigir la panaderia familiar, se le ocurre inventar que está comprometida con Dane para que busquen a alguien más y como Dane esta harto de su tonta pelea, acepta fingir para poder unir a las familias.





Que risa con el epílogo adicional 🤣



Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and Montlake for providing this book, with my honest review below.

The Fake Wedding Project was a great spin on Romeo and Juliet (gone right) and a low stakes caper all in one. Amanda and Dane are trying to get some agency while also quashing a feud between their families (and figuring out what even caused the feud). Set in a Christmas themed town, this could have read as corny very quickly but Pippa Grant straddles the line so well that this was decidedly adorable (and yes a bit steamy) with a strong story to keep it engaging.

All that said I can’t get enough of Chili the world’s laziest dog. The bonus epilogue from his perspective was adorable - though I now have to wonder if my own pup hates Santa as well (vs. our Santa’s shady behavior) given his own… issues.. when we took our Christmas pictures.

Pick this one up! It'll bring you some holiday cheer and romance no matter the season, much like the town it takes place in!

The Fake Wedding Project (Kindle Edition)by Pippa Grant
I really enjoyed this book Dane and Amanda play on Romeo and Juliet (without the dying part). There is an old family feud, angst, mystery, attraction, a very adorable dog, laughter, tears, deception, and plenty of heat all to get us to a very HEA.
Reasons I enjoyed this book:
Wonderful characters Informative Unpredictable Funny Entertaining Happily Ever After Tear-jerker Great world building Romantic Page-turner Easy-to-read Steamy.

Oh my goodness, Amanda and Dane are *swoon*. Their connection grew organically from the beginning and I was with them every step of the way.
Pippa took the family feud trope and made it her own. I loved diving into this book and would recommend. 5/5 read for me!

This book had all of my favorite and guilty pleasure tropes. There is Romeo and Juliet, fake dating, hallmarkesque setting/plot, Christmas, and set in Michigan (as a Michigander that's a big one).

There was not a crazy amount of depth to this one but it scratched the simple reading itch that I needed in the moment. It was a very cute romance and I'm very happy where it ended up. I'd definitely reccomend this to any contemporary romance reader.

Rated 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 stars. Thank you tobthe publisher and Netgalley for the ebook ARC.

This was overall a cute story with adorable main characters. Amanda and Dain grew up in rival families in a small Christmas themed town. Now, as adults, they are teaming up to fake an engagement hoping to finally put the long time feud between their families to rest.

The main characters, as well as some side characters, were the best part of this story. Amanda is outgoing and dramatic, but so caring and kind. Dane is a golden retriever willing to do anything for her. Over the course of their fake engagement, they develop real feelings for each other.

Some parts of the story were a little silly and over the top, but it added to the charm. I always enjoy Pippa Grant's books, and this one was definitely enjoyable.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

Amanda Anderson and Dane Silver decode on a fake engagement to try and stop the feuding between their families. Years long feud that no one seems to know why or how it started. This a a cute fast pace book. The plot is somewhat predictable but overall l liked this book. If the author decides to write books on some of the family members that are in this book I would read them.
Thank you to Montlake and NetGalley for this read.

If you're looking for a book to give you the holiday feels at any time of the year, look no further. The Fake Wedding Project is the book you need. It is set in Tinsel, a town that celebrates Christmas all year long. The town also has an ongoing, generational feud between two families, the Andersons and the Silvers. They HATE each other. The feud is slowly ruining the younger generation's lives until Amanda Anderson decides she's done with it and announces her engagement to Dane Silver... now she just has to convince him to play along. Dane, having had a secret crush on Amanda since high school, doesn't take long to agree. They set off to change the dynamics between their families and, since this is a romance novel, fall in love while doing so. The feud was entertaining, the holiday stuff was cheesy in the best of ways, the romance was sweet, the laughs never stopped, and there was an adorable dog included on top of it all. I couldn't have asked for more from Pippa Grant. I loved this one!

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Amanda and Dane....this book was perfect. Recommended if you love:
- small town romance
- Christmas town
- Christmas in July
- Best friends brother
- Fake dating/engagement
- Feuding families
- Family secrets

Cannot say enough amazing things about this one. It's short and sweet with lots of steam in between.

I am a huge fan of Pippa Grant and have read almost every books she has written so far.

This one is a hoot, very much a fun twist on Romeo and Juliet with a Christmas town during the off season theme. I loved how she brought the main characters of Dane Silver and Amanda Anderson to live throughout the story, and don't even get me on the dog. Having his POV at the end reminded me of raccoon from her Happy Cat series, it was just so spot on. I have to also say, that as always, the side character help bring this story and town to life.

If you are looking for an amazingly fun, laugh the whole way through read for a cozy fall day, this is a book to definitely pick up!

Title: The Fake Wedding Project
Author: Pippa Grant
Expected Publication: October 2024

Genre: Romance
Read📕:Kindle (NetGalley)


Rating🌟: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice🥵:🌶️
Tropes: fake relationship, family feud
Language: mild language

The description of this book starts with Romeo and Juliet meets Hallmark Christmas movie. And boy did it live up to that I felt like I was reading a hallmark movie that’s Christmas and July. The sweet little town of tinsel and the feud between the two families is such a fun idea!

It starts off by a fake engagement with Amanda and Dane whose families are true rivals and no one knows why. So Amanda and Dane come up with a plan to say they’ve been together and they are getting married next month and both families shut them down and say no we’re getting you guys married here in Tinsel next week so they have a week to convince families that they are madly in love and that they need to end this feud.

Amanda loves New York. She’s a professional dog walker and has a love for the arts and Dane is an engineer who loves his dog and they share a love for eggnoglatte.

Throughout the story, it’s so sweet to watch them slowly fall in love with each other. Knowing Amanda and Dane, are going in knowing that they were just going to be friends and she had no amount of her that ever wanted a boyfriend or to get married and throughout the story, Dane has changed that for her.

Dane’s sister is Amanda’s best friend so he goes through with the engagement for her sake and throughout the story the families just blend together.

I also very much love chili. He is a very lazy dog that just so sweet and so cute and he has his own epilogue from his point of view, and it was just very very cute to add in his point of view and his thoughts.

Thank you to the publisher Montlake, Pippa Grant & netGalley for Advance Copy Read (ACR) IN EXCHANGE FOR MY HONEST REVIEW🤍

I love books about weddings, whether happy or sad stories. I was in love with planning my wedding and when I see books that have a wedding theme I always want to read them. Grant's story was fun and easy to like. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

loved this fake fiancé and trying to end a generational feud within 2 families in the town tinsel. loved the friend and that both families had different Christmas items.

Delightfully Fun

One of the things I enjoyed most about this book was the dialogue between Amanda and Dane, as well as their inner monologues, which provide some truly hilarious moments. The opening scene was one of the funniest I’d read in years. This was like a Hallmark movie but on the racy side. There are a few f-bombs during inner monologues, but they work for the story, and provide a bit of humor as well. Going to great lengths trying to make peace between the two feuding families is bit exhausting for the pair, but during the effort, they grow and help their loves ones with growth as well. I quite enjoyed the journey.

The Fake Wedding Project by Pippa Grant is another winner from an author that is an auto-buy from me.

When Amanda and Dane get tired of their families continuous feuding they form an agreement to be fake engaged to make hopefully bring peace to their families in their Christmas obsessed hometown. Her family owns the gingerbread store, his the fruitcake store.

Amanda just wants peace and Dane he same, but they have secretly liked each other for years and in typical Pippa Grant style there are funny animals, crazy in the best possible way secondary characters along for the ride while they find their true loves - each other.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC. All opinions are my own.