25 January 2025

NetGalley Review: My Big Fat Fake Marriage by Charlotte Stein

My Big Fat Fake Marriage
My Big Fat Fake Marriage by Charlotte Stein

My Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩

The "Fake Relationship" trope is one of my all time favorites, so I requested this book right away.

The amazing bits:
  • Plus sized main characters, which is referenced, but not focused upon.
  • My favorite kind of MMC- Professional nerd on the street, sleeper agent freak in the sheets.
  • Low angst conflict, there is a minor third act blip, but it resolves quickly.
  • The spice was spicy, like even hotter because it was well written. At least twice I made this face 🫢 and had to put the book down while I basked in the glory of Stein's writing.

The questionable bits:
  • You have to really suspend that belief. The series of events and "facts" that had to happen to make this "fake marriage while at a criminally romantic retreat" happen is a stretch even by fiction standards.
  • At first blush the characters are not super tolerable or even into each other. The chemistry really doesn't smolder until a bit later on, so you do have to have faith.
Overall though, this was a fun romp that is an entertaining five-star read for me.

Published on 11 March 2025 by St. Martin's Press

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