A review by kindleandcrochet
Faking The Game by Claudia Burgoa

emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I love a good fake dating trope but this fell pretty flat to me, we didn't get a whole lot of then fake dating it was day one... Then suddenly day 7..  don't expect daily events but like a short recap of what they did, then saying they had hot sex and a bit of feelings, not to jump from the only sex scene to the end of the holiday where the faimly implies they're both madly in love.

Aslan acted insanely irrational about keaton saying she got a job offer, but i could have overlooked it if we got more than 2 pages off a self pity party. We go no insight into Aslan planning his grovelling and they wasn't a whole lot of grovelling at the big reveal. 

We spent the whole time listening to Keatons "woe is me" monologue, don't get me wrong we all have it but reading about it in every one of her chapters got boring fast.

Considering this book is only 290 it felt both incredibly long and super short, the jumps between scenes made it feel fast but the pacing was off for me. It seemed to go really slowly until the last 3 chapters, where everything seemed super eushed to finish. Then we got a page of epilogue and then another slightly longer epilogue.