REVIEW & GIVEAWAY: Just Pretend by J.P. Nicolas
Congrats to J.P. Nicholas on his new release, JUST PRETEND !
About the book:
When yet another publisher rejects Hannah’s most recent book due to poor love scenes, she concocts a fail-proof plan to increase her creativity… spine-tingling, no strings attached sex. How can she write about love and lust if she's never really felt it? As the only man in her life she truly trusts, Logan is the perfect one to help her find this new side of herself—and stand in as her pretend boyfriend at an upcoming reunion. For Logan, a Broadway actor by trade and passion, Hannah’s proposal is both outrageous and intriguing—especially since he's fought for nineteen years of friendship to avoid thinking of her in a physical way. Against all reason, Logan takes the bait and agrees… then ups the ante by turning their pretend relationship into a pretend engagement in front of her entire family. Now, they just have to navigate their new situation while playing house… and somehow remember this is all Just Pretend…GRAB YOUR COPY:
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A laugh out loud, fun ride. BFFs Logan, the actor, and Hannah, the aspiring novelist, decide to fake it for her family reunion. These two have been friends for a long time...since grade school even though they're now in their 30's. They hadn't recognized how well they would work as a couple until they fake it. Yep, there's a lot of simmering longing from both sides. Yet, they value their friendship. The premise sounds fairly cliché friends-to-lovers, but the story has some fun twists before they get their HEA.
The blurb promised a no strings attached sex in the name of research for a book, a premise of many a story that leads into a failed friendship-relationship. But it didn't exactly deliver on this premise Instead, I found the story focused on the evolution of their relationship than her need to do some sex research to boost her novelist career, which I must say was a relief.
The story is in first person and most is written from Logan's POV. We only get a few glimpses into her thoughts. It works, although his character becomes more emotional, almost out of character at times, as the book progressed. There were a few chapter-long flashbacks in her POV, which I must admit I skimmed since I'm not a huge fan of long segments on what already happened.
Overall, enjoyed this book tremendously.
About J.P. Nicolas:
J.P. Nicholas has the great misfortune to be A Male Romance Writer. Turns out, men are also hopeless romantics, given half the chance, and Nicholas’ fascination with love began long before he could write. His parents—high school sweethearts who are still mad for each other—left him enamored with the idea of true love, and its ability to transform and redeem even the most jaded soul. Nicholas lives to capture this magic, lust, and passion on the page; his characters known for their sizzling chemistry and chest-squeezing plot lines. When J.P. Nicholas isn’t tapping away at his laptop, he can be found in his home state of Florida, binge-watching This Is Us with his girlfriend, or devouring Italian food with his family. His latest novel, Just Pretend, is a friends-to-lovers drama and the first in his new Sandy Heights series, to be released in June.Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | Amazon | Website
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