When my brother’s best friend asks me to fake marry him to secure a business deal he desperately needs, I laugh in his face. Me help Carter Harrington? That’s split-your-pants, rip-roaring hilarious. I don’t even like him.
Besides, no one would believe I’m Carter’s wife. It’s ridiculous.
He’s tall, blond, and attention-grabbing gorgeous. I’m short, curvy, awkward… and usually invisible.
He’s never met someone he couldn’t charm. I can barely talk to friends, much less strangers.
He’s a workaholic that lives and breathes money and business. I prefer to lose myself in my art.
Believability factor of us as a couple? Zero.
But when he puts his hand on my thigh, pulls me to his side possessively, and whispers dirty things in my ear that make me go liquid, all the reasons why we shouldn’t be together start to fade away.
And when we’re forced to share a bed to keep up the charade, this fake marriage begins to feel real.
Dangerously real.
What's a girl to do when the man she can't stand starts to feel like her husband?
Genre: contemporary romance
Publication date: January 2023
Mature content: yes
Review: I had this book in my reading list for over a year, but now that I have read it I find myself very disappointed. Actually, this book stopped working for me right from the first pages, when Carter decides that lying to a new potential client (that he wants to impress his father with) is the best course of action. Because, of course, when you are in the business of managing other people's wealth, integrity and trustworthiness are not your best assets.
From them on, everything went downhill for me because the whole story is based on that premise. Besides that, most of the characters don't make sense at all and same goes for some parts of the plot. I especially loved (not) the place where one of the characters says that Carter's client probably doesn't eat read mead because she only served chicken and pork at dinner. I actually had to read that twice to make sure I was getting it right - because since when isn't pork a red meat? And on top of everything, the sex scenes border on porn and feel out of context with the rest of the story.
Unfortunately, this isn't a book where I could say the plot had potential but the rest failed to impress, because not even the plot worked even remotely for me. Never Marry Your Brother's Best Friend is book 1 in the Never Say Never series, and some day I may try one of the other 3 books to see if there's some improvement, but just not right now.
Happy readings otherwise!
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