you're funny and smart, and beautiful, and whenever anything happens to me, funny, awful, or wonderful, you're the first person i want to tell.

she says during the dates she has another job but it is never mentioned beforehand and with hallie’s track record it is incredibly hard to believe. fake dating is my favorite trope, and this was the first time i’ve read the fake dating trope from the man’s perspective. I loved Mr Wrong Number as well, and I feel like a complete idiot because I didn’t realise until 20% in that this is actually book 2 and Jack is Livvie’s brother, even though we literally start this book at Livvie and Colin’s wedding 🤦‍♀️. What I love about Lynn’s books is that they are so easy to sink into, and there hasn’t been a book of hers that I haven’t binge-read.

I don’t always enjoy a rom-com where the two main characters converse a lot of text messages, but in this case, I didn’t mind. There was an unexpected one bed trope AND fake dating *bows down to the trope gods for blessing us* Overall, if you're looking for a book that will make you feel all the warm giddy mushy feelings pls read this book. The spot-on writing style and the main characters’ effortless banter made it easy to get swept up in this upbeat rom-com, but I did find issue with some of the plot points. Hallie suffered a painful break up some time ago and when she finds herself crawling out of a hotel room after sharing a few bottles (and lots of other things) with handsome Jack, a guest at a wedding she was bartending for, Hallie designates it as her rock-bottom. It has the wonderful humor I’ve come to love from Painter’s stories and I could feel the sparks fly between Jack and Hallie.

The attraction between them doesn’t go away but they want to maintain the friendship they have built and not ruin it by falling into bed together again. regardless, this was immediately girl hatey, in an insane, like, 2000s level, toward not one but two women! I am way too self-conscious and anxious to put myself out there on an app and meeting people who are kind of strangers and trying to make small talk, sounds mentally exhausting.wrong number) had been the one to get jack on the dating app in hopes he could potentially find somebody to love and every time olivia checked in with jack– it pissed him off.

She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs into the dating app that she has determined will find her new love, she sees none other than Jack, the guy whose room she’d snuck out of. And lastly—when Josh says going up to randos at a bar is so stupid because you're initiating a convo based on looks and he would rather approach someone on the basis of their intelligence I nearly screamed in my dog's face at point blank range.

definitely begins to blur the lines and the effortless chemistry from their one night together resurfaces (or can no longer be ignored). quick content warning: i curse a lot in this review and when i say A LOT i mean A LOT (and if you get that reference you’re cool) anyways, if cursing is not your thing or you are not comfortable with that, go right ahead and skip this review ! The FMC has some of the worst internalized misogyny/white feminism I've read in a book in a very long time, and of course the MMC goes along with it and spouts his fair share of "she's not like other girls. She is a community columnist for the Omaha World-Herald, as well as a regular blogger for their parenting section.

The Love Wager is only my second book by Lynn Painter and so far her writing is fun, full of banter, easy to read, interesting without crazy drama. Hallie’s mum and sister seem to treat Hallie pretty shitty, I would have loved these relationships explored a bit more (same with Livvie and her mum in Mr Wrong Number, again). My one and only complaint is that the plot followed the expected course with the miscommunication/non-communication trope and requisite last minute crisis. Even though these two are fun, their characters still have a lot of depth, and they both have some issues to work through before they can become a couple. also both of these characters NEVER learn from their previous mistakes– i cannot stress to you how many times it was discussed that jack’s spontaneous nature was a problem.But when she logs into the dating app to look for new love, she finds none other than Jack: the guy whose hotel room she'd snuck out of.