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.

Review

The two most important things in Maddox’s life is baseball and his mom. Ever since he was young, he’s been on the field, and his mom has been supporting him. He’s close to her, and when she gets diagnosed with cancer, it sends him spiraling. He turns to drugs to numb himself and ends up almost losing his career. Months later, he’s fresh out of rehab and traded to a new team. And in order to repair his public image, he enlists Jen, a barista that he met, to pretend to be his fake girlfriend. Jen doesn’t really care for his job and really wants to be a social media manager. Thus, why she agrees to date him—to run his accounts.

From the beginning, Jan and Maddox had this attraction and when they had their first interaction, I knew it was going to be good. And I wasn’t disappointed. Although, they have a “fake” relationship, it was clear from the almost the beginning that nothing was fake between them, and they had a great trust with each other.

There was a nice mixture of sweet and angst moments. And I really enjoyed all the characters. Especially Maddox’s relationship with his mother. It was so pure, and it made since with how close they were that he would struggle when he learned she was sick. Everything he did was for her, and it really touched my heart.

Final Thoughts

Fake Love is a near perfect fake dating romance that can pull at your heart strings.

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