Heather Adores Books's Reviews > Faking Christmas

4.5⭐
Genre ~ contemporary holiday romance
Series ~ Christmas Escape
Others in the series ~ are from different authors
Setting ~ New York and Vermont
Publication date ~ book ~ November 2, 2022, audio ~ October 3, 2023
Page Count ~ 344 (p+ 27 chapters +e)
Audio length ~ 9 hours 59 minutes
Narrator ~ Justis Bolding
POV ~ single 1st
Featuring ~ teachers, enemies~ish to lovers, fake dating, no steamage, no 3rd act breakup

Olive (25) and Miles work together at a high school in New York. They didn't get off on the right foot when he started teaching there, so she considers him an enemy of sorts. I didn't really get much enemy vibes to be honest.

Now it's time for Christmas break and Olive is off to Vermont to spend a week with her family, which includes her mother's new husband, Russ. A man she married just 8 months after Olive's father passed away after a cancer battle only last Christmas. Needless to say she's not looking forward to it. On top of that her mother invited her ex-boyfriend, Glen, who she has no interest in getting back together with. Before she can even stop herself she's telling her family she already has a boyfriend named Miles.

Guess who's parents own the resort they are staying at? You guessed it, Miles. Luckily he's down with the fake dating plan, so they have a fun filled week of doing wintery things. I felt the bitter cold Vermont air coming off the pages.

This was so adorable and fun and sweet and cute and funny. The teasing is good natured and the characters are mature and relatable AND they know how to communicate! I would totally watch this if it was made into a Hallmark movie and that's not usually my jam.

Narration notes:
Justis did a great job. I have no complaints.

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