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Publisher Description
A fake date … a real secret
An invitation to her ex's wedding is the icing on a crappy cake for burlesque dancer Yolande. Her ex ghosted her just as they were about to take the stage for their neo-burlesque act. Yolande's friends at Seraph's Burlesque Club persuade her that attending will show her ex that she's moved on. She just needs a date.
Shy bartender Reiko has a secret, or two. She can't risk anyone discovering that her life as a penniless PhD student and bartender is a sham. And even though she's been in love with Yolande since forever, when Yolande needs a plus-one to save face at her ex's wedding, Reiko knows any fantasy of romance is just that - fantasy. Yolande will never notice the way Reiko looks at her.
When the drama of the wedding reveals a spark of attraction between them, Reiko will have to risk her fake identity for the hope of real love.
- found family
- fake dating
- friends to lovers
- only one bed
Customer Reviews
Love and light speed
I know some fast-paced lesbian novels, but this one takes the cake and eats it too. The book felt a wee bit like a maze that had no map and just left you lost amongst the hedges when it came to how these two MC's felt about one another. Between the family angst, the up and down between the leading ladies, the ex-gf wedding, it jus felt like a hodgepodge of plots that never resolve and are instead covered up with steamy sex scenes. The dialogue was fun at times and at others it was cumbersome to get through. The concept of Reiko and her mixed up psyc profile regarding her wealth and different personas for different situations wasn't fleshed out enough while simultaneously took too much of the spotlight. Yolande and her abandonment and then falling right into Reiko, a bummer of a lesbian trope if I ever read one. I wanted so much to really love this book- it has a fun premise, I liked the setting, but the forcefulness of the two coming together and the way in which they explore their budding relationship, it left me with a cringey feeling rather than a warm happy one. It is one of those relationships that you see budding and know LBD and incompatibility will be writ on the divorce papers with all their friends shaking their heads and admitting they saw the breakup coming before they even were together.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.