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Ready. Set. Faux .
Holden James picked the worst time to have a meltdown. His chance to audition for his favorite game show, Madcap Market , should have been a moment of triumph—a glorious, loving homage to his adored mom, who died six years ago. Instead, he's destroying the minibar in a grim Los Angeles hotel room…recently dumped, partnerless and sliding into a crushing black hole of anguish.
But the hotel service in abject misery is sublime. It even comes with an unfairly fit and sexy (smart-ass) concierge who arrives at the door with pizza, Monopoly and deliciously distracting forearms.
All Holden knows about Leo Min is that he's beautiful and unexpectedly sympathetic, and the chemistry between them is beyond . Maybe it's even enough to convince everyone, including the show's casting directors, that they're a real couple. All they'd have to do is crush the competition, win the huge cash prize and all of Holden's problems—his broken heart, his buried grief, his complete lack of money and direction—will be fixed.
Of course, reality doesn't quite work out that way. But love is an entirely different game…
[I received an arc for an honest review]
The (Fake) Dating Game by Timothy Janovsky is an MM Adult romantic comedy with steam and heart.
Not me, of course, because this is fake. There will be flirting and cooking and sex (please, God, let there be more sex), but there won't be feelings that can be dashed to pieces. There won't be ties or tethers or year-long leases or shared kitchen appliances.
The story is an easy-to-follow storyline about Holden, whose plan to enter a food shopping game show with his boyfriend and win in honor of his mom is slightly altered when said boyfriend breaks up with him right before the trip. He goes anyway and ends up finding a connection with the concierge temp at his hotel. The two team together as fake boyfriends to enter and win the game show. The two have an instant sexual chemistry that turns into a friendship along the way, and then quickly more. Before they even compete in the actual game show, the connection between them is more than just "fake". However, Holden is still grieving the loss of his mom and needs to confront that before he can think about the future.
I enjoyed so much about this story. I loved the positive mental health repo. One needs to take care of their own hearts and mind before the can give it fully to another. i loved the relationship between Holden and his dad, and Leo and his mom. Two great portrayals of supportive and caring parents. While I don't love a third act break up , I felt this one was need and done really well.
"Holden James, you haven't experienced unraveled until you've had me inside you."
Let's talk steam because you know you want to know the level with its cartoon book cover lol We have plenty of build between the two with dirty talk, heavy make outs, and some phone sex before we get to the big finale. Our couple for the first half of the book just kept getting interrupted. It felt like such a tease, and I was dying to see Leo's dominant bedroom personality on full display . Thankfully it definitely pays off because Leo is a total Dom in the bedroom, and we even have some "yes sirs" being thrown out (no worries, we have verbal communication and check ins when the two get kinky).
In the end, The (Fake) Dating Game by Timothy Janovsky is a MM Adult romantic comedy with a strangers to lovers fake relationship set up, quality steam, banter, heart, karaoke, scavenger hunts and a happy ending.
---Written by Amanda--
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