Heroine is Violet, she’s an alpha female. He always gets the bad press even when he goes all out to save someone. Hero is Ross, who is an Alpha Male, but with a big heart. Love how Lauren had a great hand in word play like frienenemies. There are some scenes that will have you laughing your self to tears but also shaking your head. Lauren Landish went all out for thus one. I liked that Kaede did not come from money, but even this became fairly stereotypical when his perceived insecurity about his humble beginnings comes to the forefront.Wow I don’t know if I can find the right words to do this story justice.

Kaede was the handsome football star in high school who turned into a ruthless businessman, and Courtney was the rich socialite playing the Ice Queen in order to prove herself at her father’s company. That is not to say Courtney and Kaede weren’t well-written and well-developed characters, I just thought the overall premise was unoriginal and overdone in contemporary romance. I also felt a distinct lack of originality in their backstories. I’m all for physical fitness, and good for them for hitting the gym more often than I do (ok, WAY more often than I do), but I just couldn’t help but feel their fitness standards were unrealistic, and their issues were personally unrelatable. Essentially gym rats, they spend a seemingly inordinate amount of time working out and, at one point, chastised themselves for ordering a pizza. They don’t claim to have fallen in love until a few weeks into their “fake” relationship, which is a refreshing change from the one-week-turned-love scenarios other romance novels seem to thrive on.ĭespite the overall engaging story, I didn’t feel that Courtney and Kaede were particularly relatable characters. They both had crushes on each other for several years, but recognize that they never truly knew one another before now. What I enjoyed the most about this book was the organic progression of Courtney and Kaede’s relationship. My Big, Fat, Fake Engagement is the second book in Lauren Landish’s series and can be read as a stand-alone novel. As sparks fly and Kaede and Courtney grow closer, they quickly find their “fake” engagement is turning into anything but fake.

Type-A, corporate barracuda Courtney sees this as an opportunity to explore the crush she’s had on Kaede since she was a teenager.

Not to just anyone, but to Courtney Andrews, his best friend/gym co-owner’s little sister. In a move of sheer desperation, he blurts out that he’s engaged. The only way he’s able to keep his deal with the prospective gym investor is if he can somehow thwart the ridiculously obvious advances of the investor’s daughter, Missy. Kaede McWarren, co-founder and co-owner of the One Life gym, has found himself in a bit of a pickle. My Big, Fat, Fake Engagement, by Lauren Landish, is a brother’s best friend and fake relationship contemporary romance.

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