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Friends To Lovers by Sally Blakely
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Friends To Lovers by Sally Blakely

Rating: 5/5

Spice: 0

Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance

Plot: 5/5

Blurb: Always each otherโ€™s plus-ones, but never each otherโ€™s real dates, two childhood best friends have one last summer wedding to fall in love in this dual-narrative debutโ€”a grown-up The Summer I Turned Pretty .

Best friends Joni and Ren have been inseparable since childhood. So when Joni moves across the country for her job, the two devise a creative way to stay in theyโ€™ll be each otherโ€™s plus-ones every year for wedding season, no matter what else is happening in their lives.

Itโ€™s a tradition that works, until a line is crossed and the friendship they once thought was forever is ruined.

Now Joni is back at their familiesโ€™ shared summer home for her sisterโ€™s wedding, and sheโ€™s determined to make the week perfect, even if it means faking a friendship with Renโ€”and avoiding the truth of why they have to fake it in the first place. How hard can it be to pretend to be friends with the person who once knew you best?

But as sunny beach days together turn into starry nights, Joni begins to question what her life is without Ren in it. And when the wedding arrives, bringing past heartaches to the surface, sheโ€™ll be forced to decide if loving Ren means letting him go, or if theirs is a love story worth fighting for.

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Itโ€™s A Love Story by Annabel Monaghan
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Itโ€™s A Love Story by Annabel Monaghan

Rating: 5/5

Spice: 0/5

Plot: 5/5

Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance

Blurb: From the USA Today bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel about a former adolescent TV punchline who has left her awkwardness in the rearview mirror thanks to a fake-it-till-you-make-it mantra that has her on the cusp of success, until she tells a lie that sets her on a crash-course with her past, spending a week in Long Island with the last man she thinks might make her believe in love. Rules for a love story: There are none. Itโ€™s all a lie. Jane Jackson knows that true love is a lie. Laughter is the only truthโ€”you canโ€™t fake a belly laugh. Jane should know, she spent her adolescence as "Poor Janey Jakes," the barbecue-sauce-in-her-braces punchline on America's fifth-favorite sitcom. Now sheโ€™s a Creative Executive at Clearwater Studios and sheโ€™s living by a new mantra: Fake it till you make it. Except, she might have faked it too far. Desperate to get her first project greenlit and riled up by pompous cinematographer and one-time crush Dan Finnegan, she opened her mouth and a big fat fib fell out. She claimed that Jack Quinlan, hottest popstar of the moment, has promised to write an original song for the soundtrack. Jack may have been her first kissโ€”and greatest source of shameโ€”but she hasnโ€™t spoken to him in twenty years. Now, Jane must turn to the last man sheโ€™d ever want to owe: Dan Finnegan. Because Jack is playing a festival in Danโ€™s hometown on Long Island, and Dan has an in. A week in close quarters with Dan while facing down her past is Jane's idea of hell, but Dan just might surprise her. While covering up her lie, can they find something true?

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