By: Charlotte Stein
Many thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Griffin for the ARC of this book!
This book was so cute! Here we meet Alfie, an ex football player (soccer). He wants a ghostwriter to write his memoirs. Mabel Willicker is a ghostwriter. He’s grumpy and she’s a curvy, cheery, ball of sunshine. Alfie doesn’t like opening up to people, but Mabel has a way of getting people to open up to her. But during their meetings, they bicker and banter. The paparazzi catch Mabel leaving his house and they assume there is a budding romance between the two. They decide to pretend to be in a relationship for the public; their chemistry is hot. But is it all just pretend?
I struggled getting into this book a bit, but it does get better. I think that this book needed more dialogue in the beginning and it also would have been better to get alternating chapters in first person point of view from Mabel and Alfie. This book was told in third person point of view, and I never felt like I was able to get in either of their heads. I did feel like I knew Mabel a little more, but I really wanted to know what was inside Alfie’s mind.
I did like the banter. And there were definitely some laugh out loud moments. My kids saw my reading and they asked me why I was smiling and laughing. I really do enjoy a book that can make me do that.
This book had more spice than I expected. However, the ending. Oh the ending. It was everything I needed from this book. I think I literally melted reading it.
This book will be available on February 6, 2024. You can find it here.
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