The Faker Rulebook

Fake Dating? Check. Sharing a bed? Check. Best Friends to Lovers? Check. 

Almost every single one of my absolute favorite tropes all in one cute and steamy book? Check.

Baylin Crow's "The Faker Rulebook"

["The Faker Rulebook: A perfect guide to a successful fake relationship with your straight best friend.

Noah—Rook Oliveira stumbled into my life when I was eleven years old.

Being the scrawny new kid at school with a mouth full of braces, I never expected to become unlikely best friends with the most popular boy in seventh grade.

At eighteen, I gathered the courage to tell him I was gay and admitted I'd never kissed a guy. He offered to be my first. Straight or not, that kiss had burned with nearly tangible fire and tattooed the moment on my heart.

I've spent the last four years trying to forget it.

Now we're seniors in college, and I've learned why secret relationships are a bad idea.

My brother is getting married, and my cheating ex is the best man. Honestly, Rook is more upset about it than I am. He comes up with this crazy plan to be my fake boyfriend for the week of the wedding.

If we're doing this, then we need to set some rules. Between fake kisses and sharing a bed, things could get messy. Because I'm in love with my best friend—and he has no idea.

The rules are simple. I never expected Rook to be the one that started breaking them."]

I think the original description said it is low-angsty, but like let me fucking tell you. I felt a shit ton of angst. 

And mutual pining (because there's a serious lack of communication lately in the books I'm reading--and secret romances--and friends-with-benefits-so-like-don't-fall-in-love-with-me-bro shit (though that last one is due to the specific genre niche I'm stuck in)). 

ALSO sooo fucking cute! 

Like I know real-life relationship jealousy can be really toxic depending on the situation, but in a book, when a character is jealous and he doesn't know why (or spoiler alert, finally fucking figures it out), it's just...really something.

So I found myself a new possible author to temporarily obsess over (aka speed reading through her books).

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