A ball player looking to start over finds the missing piece to his heart after starting a fake romance with a random woman that soon becomes all too real. Keep reading to get a tempting taste of Fake Love by Jocelyne Soto, along with getting my impressions of it, then get ready to add it to your bookshelf?
A home run straight to the heart.I had everything going for me.
Drafted right out of college. Signed a multimillion dollar contract. Slated to become a hall of famer. All my prospects were looking up...Until a diagnosis caused me to ruin everything.It took me a season to destroy my career and now I have to work to repair it.
Step 1: Get clean.
Step 2: Show my new team that their investment isn’t a waste.
Step 3: Find a woman and convince her to be my fake girlfriend and make my mom happy. 1 and 2, I got a handle on. Step 3 is turning out to be a lot harder than I thought
Finding a woman was a piece of cake, convincing her is a different story. Jen Zaragosa is hardheaded, feisty, and a pain in my behind.
But even with her being all those things, I start to fall for her
And hard.
This started out as something to make my mom happy and it’s turning into me planning our future together.
Jen is my grand slam and there is nothing fake about it.
MY IMPRESSIONS OF THIS BOOK:
From the moment I picked up this book I knew I was in for one heckuva emotional journey...and it didn't disappoint! In a journey of second chances and personal growth, readers also get to see a sweet and sensual romance play out. It's a romance that might have started out as a lie, but slowly and steadily it became more as Jen became just the person Maddox needed her to be to help him in his struggles.
Maddox is an appealing hero, a flawed yet perfectly imperfect man who had the rug pulled out from under him and whose response to that only made things worse for him. I ached for all he'd been through, the poor choices he made, all seen against a backdrop of realistically depicted life events. I was drawn to him from the start, found his vulnerabilities endearing, and it had me cheering him on every step of the way. Jen's an equally appealing character, one far stronger than she thinks she is and she's just who Maddox needed to get his life in order in a connection that caught him by surprise. Together they were a match made in Heaven, a pairing that made me smile while warming my heart. Another connection that made me smile was that of Maddox and his mother, in scenes that were utterly charming and profound in their depiction.
On a whole this was a powerful read, one that didn't hold back in depicting the harsh realities of life. It's a tale that pushed every one of my emotional buttons, pulling me into Maddox's life and rooting for him to get his life back under control. His relationships were nicely balanced with the pain he was going through, making the women in his life an important part of his recovery and leaving this tale dripping with love and heart and soul.
My rating for this book is an A.
*I got this book from the author for review in exchange for my honest opinion.
AUTHOR INFO:
Jocelyne Soto is a romance author born and raised in California. She started her writing journey in 2015 and in 2019 she published her first book. She is an independent author who loves discovering new authors on Goodreads and Amazon. She comes from a big Mexican family, and with it comes a love for all things family and food.
Jocelyne has a love for her mom’s coffee and writing. In her free time, she can be found reading a romance novel off her iPad or somewhere in the black hole of YouTube.
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