Authors: Lucy Lennox & May Archer
Self Published
Publication Date: June 30, 2020
Length: 311 pages
Reviewed by Sammy
Synopsis
Brooks Johnson’s Words To Live By:
When returning to Licking Thicket, TN, for the first time in ten years to reunite with your nosy neighbors, heart-broken ex-girlfriend, and matchmaking mama who never quite believed you were gay, it’s best to bring a fake boyfriend as backup...
Just don’t be surprised when your ex-girlfriend does the same.
And when her incredibly hot fake boyfriend becomes the one island of calm in a sea of bovine-based insanity, it’s best to exercise caution… especially when he pushes you up against the rough barn wall to check you very thoroughly for splinters...
Just don’t be surprised if you fall head-over-hooves in love with him.
Review
Brooks is a rising star in the advertising world—a fixer and
he sure needs to do just that after someone else screws the pooch and nearly
loses the agency their biggest client. Now on a mission to save the deal, the
last thing Brooks needs is a call from home telling him he’s needed. But his
dad is sick and someone has to take over Head Licker duties—unfortunately it
has to be him. Dragging along his coworker, Paul, who he is passing off as his
boyfriend due to the fact that his mother doesn’t believe he is actually gay,
he goes home to Licking Thicket for the 200th celebration of the
annual Lickin’ festival.
There is a reason Brooks left town ten years ago and has
rarely been back and that has to do with the huge debacle during the last
festival when he accidentally came out to the entire town and broke his
girlfriend Ava’s heart. They were the golden couple and the entire town
expected him to marry her—just like she did. Well, Brooks is about to get a big
dose of Ava and her “boyfriend” Mal—a metal artist who uses reclaimed junk to
create masterpieces. He’s waiting for his work to be picked up by a gallery,
she’s his best friend, he’s gay, she’s pregnant and ready for revenge on Mr.
Perfect aka Brooks. It’s a tangled web of fake relationships and half-truths.
In between there will be contests to judge, the Lope to run, apologies to be
made and more than one person falling for the wrong boyfriend.
I honestly laughed till I had tears coming out of my eyes.
Lucy Lennox and May Archer have released a brilliantly funny and sweet romantic
comedy called Fakers. Between the
endless puns, the insane side cast of characters who seem hellbent on making
poor Brooks jump through as many hoops as possible, and the sizzling attraction
between Mal and Brooks, this story is just marvelous. When Brooks’ dad makes
the statement about two Nutters (another family in town) and a Johnson (their
surname) I think I died. Ava may start out as a bit of a witch but she morphs
into the classiest, sweetest friend Brooks or Mal could ever want. Honestly
other than the fairly transparent plot (no new ground is broken here) I have
nothing to complain about with this story.
Even though you can guess everything that is about to happen
next in this novel, the way in which Archer and Lennox create such dynamic and
hysterically funny characters and then place them in impossible situations that
are just crazy enough to be real makes this story a hit for me. I flew through
the chapters-each funnier than the last. Mal and Brooks are both slightly
broken—coming from small towns where they couldn’t be themselves to escape to
big cities only to feel lonely and frustrated. Licking Thicket will turn out to
be a haven for them both—much to their surprise. The town will embrace their
lost son and add another during this book and it is really very lovely to watch
happen. Paul and Ava will meet and fall in love further complicating the
already tangled foursome’s dynamic. Paul, by the way, is absolutely hilarious
and I love him to death. It’s all a bit cliché how it turns out but I wouldn’t change
a single thing about it.
Fakers takes a
small town with a big heart, her wayward returning son/hero and his ex and
their fake boyfriends and creates a dual love story that is just fantastic. I
highly recommend this novel to you.
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