When Abi’s apartment has an infestation, she decides to stay in the millionaire’s apartment that she cleans. He is out of town. What she doesn’t count on is meeting his parents. What’s even weirder is that they seem to know who she is. She also wasn’t counting on an angry Declan showing up at her other job to confront her. She agrees to his plan of fake dating for the weekend.

I enjoyed watching Abi and Declan’s relationship grow. Their banter is really a strong part of this story. Abi is a hoot with her exaggerated storytelling.

This is such a cute romcom. Totally adorable with plenty of laughable moments.

Thank you to Berkley Romance and NetGalley for the advanced readers copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I had deja vu the entire time I read this. It reminded me of summer in the city despite it being a bit of a different plot line. I think billionaire romances just aren't for me. However this was cute and fun to read.

This one wasn't my favorite Lynn Painter novel, but it was still cute and quirky. I thought the FMC was pretty funny and I would recommend it.

Lynn Painter serves up a sparkling, feel good adult rom‑com with Maid for Each Other. The perfect blend of sharp banter, swoony moments, and emotional warmth. This feels like a modern day Maid in Manhattan or Pretty Woman vibe, only with stronger humor and a heroine you root for from the very first page.

Abi Mariano, a hardworking grad student juggling two jobs, unexpectedly ends up sleeping in the penthouse of her millionaire client, Declan Powell, after a building infestation. When his parents arrive and assume she’s his girlfriend “Abby,” Declan scrambles and proposes a fake‑dating arrangement to keep his image intact. Complete with fully covered living expenses for Abi.

What truly shines is Painter’s dual POV and quick witted dialogue. Abi’s sass and sincerity balance perfectly against Declan’s stoic billionaire charm. Their chemistry is electric, even when their fake relationship is strictly business at first.

Despite the pacing being brisk and the premise somewhat contrived, this was a hit for summer reading. Fun, immersive, and impossible to put down.

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for the ARC. Completely predictable but cute RomCom told in the perspective of the two main characters. Loved the banter back and forth. Made for a fun read.

Fun, witty, sarcastic,.. grumpy billionaire meets his match, Sunshine the Maid, in this fake-dating rom-com.

The story has all the feels you want from a rom-com. Roman and Abi are just adorable. When Abi stays over, the owner of the penthouse she cleans is out of town for the week. She normally wouldn’t consider it, but he’s rarely around. It goes great—until one morning she finds two strangers in the kitchen. They’re the parents of the penthouse owner, and they seem to think they’ve heard all about Abi—not as their son’s maid, but as his girlfriend. I loved the first part of the book; it was hilarious and entertaining, especially the banter between Roman and Abi as they go back and forth, pretending to be in love in front of his family. There are many humorous and laugh-out-loud scenes. However, many scenes felt flat, with a lack of communication, and sometimes the dialogue seemed immature and unrealistic.

Thank You, NetGalley and Publisher, for the ARC.

Thanks to @berkleypub and @berkleyromance for the gifted e-ARC and to @prhaudio for the ALC!

A fun romance. I love both characters. It was great world building. Imagine dropping into a millionaire’s world! That’s the fantasy, right? What would it be like to view all things as disposable?

There’s excellent chemistry between Abi and Declan. Fade to black, but really good kissing scenes. Very cute story. Great banter. Satisfying ending. Both characters had some growth.

Dual not duet narration so the voices of each other’s characters didn’t match but it still worked.

This is a solid, fluffy, enjoyable romance.

Thank you Berkley Romance for the free book! #BerkleyBookstagram #BerkleyIG #berkley #berkleyromance #lynnpainter#MaidforEachOther

𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫: 𝐋𝐲𝐧𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫
𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟓, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓

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This book was such a delight! If you enjoy fake dating and forced proximity, I think you’ll enjoy this one. A professional cleaner named Abi who needs a temporary place to stay, and crashes at a penthouse knowing the owner, Declan, is out of town for a week…only to wake up one morning to find two strangers in the kitchen who think think she is the girlfriend of the owner of the penthouse and just so happens they’ve heard all about her. It turns out they are Declan’s parents. With Declan’s career as the main focus of his life, he made up a fake girlfriend named “Abby.” Now that she appeared in his penthouse, he has to find out who she really is and make her a proposition to pretend to date him. What’s the worst that can happen?

Lynn Painter always delivers when it comes to rom-coms. The characters in this one were just amazing and I loved the banter. This was such a fun one!

🧹Fake Dating
🧹Forced Proximity
🧹Great Banter
🧹Strangers to Lovers
🧹Slow Burn

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I ate this one up!!. I enjoyed this book so much. I'm a sucker for fake dating x billionaire romance. It was so good, and light and fun!! I wish I could read this again for the first time.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, nobody writes witty banter like Lynn Painter 👏 her books always have me laughing out loud and this one was no different!

Abi Mariano’s apartment has an infestation and she has nowhere else to stay. Her solution: sleep at the apartment she’s supposed to be cleaning, since the owner is out of town. Everything is fine until the owner’s parents show up and assume she’s their son’s girlfriend… that they’ve heard all about.

Declan Powell is married to his career and made up a girlfriend in an attempt to take the pressure off and look more serious to everyone. When Declan finds out that Abi stayed at his place without permission, he presents her with a proposition to fake date him.

Was it completely obnoxious and a bit unrealistic how Declan would just drop thousands of dollars on someone he barely knew? Yes, but I loved the story so much that it didn’t bother me 😂

Declan and Abi had the best banter 🙌 I loved how their first impression of each other kept getting challenged.

A night of fake dating quickly turned into a weekend, and so on. I could tell the spark was there between these two, and loved their unconventional journey to falling in love.

Cute story, even if the premise seems kind of implausible. I liked the characters and the interactions. However the FMC's interactions with her family and friends were a bit weird. Overall, nothing was wrong with the story, but it lacked something that could push it to a 4 star read for me.

3.5 stars rounded up to a 4

You know the Taylor Swift lyric “put narcotics into all of my songs”? Okay well the author version of that is Lynn Painter because I swear once I pick up a Lynn Painter book I cannot put it down it’s like there’s crack in them and Maid For Each Other was no exception.

This premise is straight out of a 90s/2000s romcom and I am so HERE FOR IT. Like this was so fun and a little quirky and I had the best time with it. Abi being Declan’s maid and the way their whole ruse came about was not what I was expecting but it worked and it was so fun. I loved their banter so much and you truly see the sweetest little friendship form in just a short amount of time. I loved how Abi was truly herself even while they were fake dating and I enjoyed how watching her find happiness with people she had once despised. Also Declan was just so far gone for this girl and I honestly love a confident man who becomes a puddle for his lady. Their day together in New York truly felt like everything sweet and good you want in a romance. And my heart was aching for them so hard in the end! Oh and hello - the grand gesture? The most thoughtful and precious thing I’ve ever seen! This book has everything good we love about Lynn Painter romances and I had the absolute best time reading it.

Thank you Berkley, NetGalley, and Lynn Painter for the ARC!

👍🏻Read If You Like:
* fake dating
* only one bed
* billionaire romances
* grand gestures

🛑Content Warnings:
* deceased father (in past)
* flighty parent
* asthma representation

🌶️Open Door Romance
Closed Door Mods:
* Ch. 34-35
* beginning of Ch. 38 (fade to black with mild details)

3.75


“Happily Never After” was hilarious and sweet. I made people crack up just by telling them about it. That dialogue and the personal jokes were awesome and the plot unique. I could tell you much less about the Mr. Wrong Number books, but remember that they were also very enjoyable. My expectations were big.

This is a very cute book. They’re all predictable but I think this one lacked a little of the actual strife or creativity others have given me. It’s a darling story with characters I liked and I read it very quickly, but not my favorite of hers.

Thank you to Lynn Painter, NetGalley, and Berkeley Publishing Group for providing me with a free advanced copy of this book for my unbiased review.

#MaidforEachOther #NetGalley #bookreview #ADHDreader #LynnPainter #omaha #maidforromance #cinderella #cinderellastory #romance #romcom #berkeleypublishinggroup

First off I have to thank NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for providing me with this ARC!! I was honesty very hesitant to go into another Lynn Painter book after not liking Nothing Like The Movies. But this is my first Lynn Painter book that I went into this year, and I had a feeling this was gonna be cuter and omg what a fun billionaire romance. I haven’t read mag billionaire romances, but I found this very funny and I loved Abi and Declan together. When they come to an agreement that she can stay in his place and he can’t and he asks permission if he can stay there or even come over was honestly hilarious. She kept on telling him to “use his key like a normal person” 😂. But also I really appreciated how real Abi’s character felt, that she’s kinda at a inbetween stage in her life and confronts her own loneliness which of course is a struggle for all of us. But it made her character feel raw and very relatable. And Declan omg the way he was so down bad for her was honestly so adorable. So 4.25 stars I’m looking forward to reading Fake Skating later this year. 😁

5 Stars

It’s a Lynn Painter book, of course it’s going to be 5 Stars.

Something you need to know about me is that the romcom Maid in Manhattan was one of my least favorites and I may have been going into this novel anticipating to be let down because the premise is plucky maid falls for rich guy. It didn’t work for me before, so why now? I’m because LYNN PAINTER.

Abi and Dec are polar opposites. She cleans his house. He has a custom car. So when her apartment has an infestation and she knows his apartment is vacant, who would it hurt for her to relocate for a night (or two)? No one, until she wakes up and Declan’s parents are in the kitchen SO HAPPY TO MEET ABBY, DECLAN’S GIRLFRIEND THEY HAVE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT!

This forces Declan to beg Abi to be his fake girlfriend for the weekend because he wants to impress his boss and parents and Abi sees the opportunity to have a “legal” relocation to his place. And her student loans paid off.

It’s a bit Pretty Woman, a bit forced proximity, a lot of fake dating and real feelings. And it’s magical. I loved every minute and honestly a streaming service better snatch up the rights to this ASAP.

The beginning of this book was hysterical. I loved the wonky meet disaster and their fake dating plot so much. The sort of hate-banter had me giggling on the subway.

Fake dating romances are in my top 3 favorite set ups (second chance forever!!!). Unfortunately once the faking started I did feel like the plot got a bit lost. There was not much character development and the two of them struggled to let their guards down and communicate well into the 90% range. I struggled believing in their love story.

I loved happily never after and plan on giving Lynn’s next book another chance!

Thank you Berkley romance for the gifted copy in enhance for an honest review.

This was my first book by Lynn Painter and I binge-read it over a weekend. It was just THAT fun!!! Usually I like my romances hella spicy, and this book is not, so the fact that it grabbed my attention and still had me giggling and kicking my feet from all the banter and tension says it all 😍

There is some spice, I think people would call it “tasteful” lol, like not quite closed-door but very sweet and keeps the details to a minimum.

DEFINITELY check out this book if you like:
Fake dating
Enemies to lovers
Billionaire romances
Slow burns
Rom-coms

Thank you Lynn Painter, Berkeley, and NetGalley for a free e-copy of Maid for Each Other in exchange for an honest review. This book comes out July 15th ☺️
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My rating scale:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I mourned the ending of this journey 🥹
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ really enjoyed and would recommend
⭐️⭐️⭐️ it was fine
⭐️⭐️ I didn’t enjoy this journey
⭐️ I dnf’d or wish I’d dnf’d
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ this is smutty smutty erotica 🥵
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ a lot of spice
🌶️🌶️🌶️ some spice
🌶️🌶️ romantic b plot / closed door / YA romance
🌶️ no romance / nonfiction

I really enjoyed this book. It is a cute billionaire romantic comedy done correctly. The banter between Abi and Declan was fantastic. The relationship progression was paced correctly, since they don't immediately jump in bed with each other like a lot of billionaire romances tend to do now. I really enjoyed each character and following Abi's progression in finding her career and Declan learning how to express himself without being a total ass all the time.

I thoroughly enjoyed this light and fun summer read! As a longtime fan of Lynn Painter’s books, I was excited to dive into this one, and it did not disappoint. The adult romantic comedy features genuinely likable characters who aren’t afraid to laugh at themselves, which adds a lot of charm and humor throughout the story. While the plot is somewhat unrealistic, it perfectly suits the carefree, escapist vibe that makes it an ideal book for summer. If you’re looking for a feel-good read filled with laughter and relatable moments, this is a great choice.

**I will add the link for my Instagram post as soon as it is up on my profile.

This story was giving me Pretty Woman and Maid in Manhattan vibes. Abi is a bit of an aloof, chaotic woman, while Declan is Type A to a T. He's a workaholic with extremely high standards. Together, they make a really fun couple. They complete what the other needs. He needs to loosen up, while she could use some more structure in her life. They both need something from each other, he needs a fake girlfriend whom his parents also happened to meet, while she needs a place to stay and some cash to pay off her student debt. Together, they create a pretty funny and enjoyable fake dating romance. There is a ton of forced proximity and sexual tension. You will definitely enjoy this one!

The one thing I couldn't get over was the fact that this millionaire and his big business cronies were all living in middle America. I don't know why I couldn't get over it, but I just didn't believe the setting.

Read if you like a fake dating, opposites attract romance with dual POV. Thanks to the publisher for the ARC in return for an honest review. This book is out 7/15!