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The Great Dating Fake Off

by Livy Hart
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One over-the-top Italian wedding. Two fake couples. And a million hilariously disastrous possibilities...
Nora D'Amato would do almost anything for her best friend. Pretend she's smitten with him to get his overly invested Italian family off his back? Absolutely. Attend a wedding for said overbearing family? Bring it. Spend the next six days at a posh resort watching the bride and groom's families hate on each other? Pass the popcorn.
There's only one tiny little hiccup. Nora's crush—and the object of some very inappropriate thoughts—is here, too. And looking so delectable that she could spoon him faster than stracciatella gelato in a heat wave.
But Sebastian Rossi isn't available...officially. He's here with his fake wedding date. And he owes her big time for keeping an eye on his nonna while he's away months at a time for work. A week in the Adirondacks is a piece of overly frosted cake. Besides, it's not as though he can have a real relationship when he's constantly on the move. Definitely not with the cute bookstore manager he can't stop thinking about.
And a wedding war zone with two feuding families is not the time or place for flirting or sexy sneak-arounds. Everyone is watching—whether it's during the pickleball tournament, the angry patriarch showdowns, or even the bull-riding bachelorette party. This wedding is one slipped fauxcade away from catastrophe, and if Nora and Sebastian can't keep to their own sides of the aisle, they risk exposing the very secrets they're sworn to protect.

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    August 6, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781649375292

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    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2024

      Hart (Planes, Trains, and All the Feels) offers a fun twist on the fake-date trope. Both Nora and Reid promise to help their friends by pretending to be their dates at a snazzy wedding. But it is the same wedding, and Reid has real, if unconfessed, feelings for Nora. But how to un-fake-date? With a 100K-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Kirkus

      August 15, 2024
      Two people bring fake dates to a wedding but only have eyes for each other in Hart's comical romance. Nora meets Sebastian when he comes into the bookstore where she works. She really likes him, but just when he's about to ask her out, her friend and boss Benji arrives at the store. Benji is in some trouble with his family; Nora pretends to be his girlfriend to get him out of it. This ruse gets her invited to a family wedding as Benji's plus-one ("We were so worried the wedding photos would be unbalanced. We thought he'd be the only single Ferraro, sullen in the back of every portrait"). Sebastian, meanwhile, is taking some time away from his job opening Boys and Girls Club chapters around the country to help out his grandmother. His best friend Alessia's brother is getting married, and Alessia asks Sebastian to be her fake date to the wedding. (It turns out that all of these characters are going to the same nuptials.) Sebastian realizes pretty quickly that Nora and Benji are faking their relationship, and his friend, Alessia, gives away their game, too. What follows is a farce in which both fake couples have to keep up the con, even though Nora and Sebastian both really like each other. Not all is well; the feud brewing between the bride and groom's families threatens to blow up the wedding, and Sebastian tells Nora he's about to move to another state for work. This is a fun take on the fake-dating trope. Sebastian is a do-gooder who seems a little too good to be true, but both he and Nora are engaging, likable protagonists, and the chemistry between them is off the charts. The bride and groom's families are involved in a Montague/Capulet-level rivalry, and everyone involved comes from big, nosy Italian families, adding depth to the story with a lot of quirky side characters and complicated interpersonal dynamics. The dialogue is zippy and clever, too. Overall, it's a light, amusing read. A big fat funny wedding romp.

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