🎧 Book Review: Faking Christmas by Cindy Steel

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, small town, enemies~ish to lovers, fake dating, no steamage, no 3rd act breakup

My review:

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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Book blurb:

One little white lie.

That’s all it took. Now I’m suddenly having to fake-date my work nemesis to get me through a week at a Vermont Christmas lodge with my family.

The problem? I can’t stand Miles Taylor. Not only that, but I don’t date people I work with. But I can handle it. I’ve had practice faking my emotions for years. So it shouldn’t matter that Miles never lets me get away with anything. And that he happens to boil my blood hotter than a steaming pot of wassail. So when he throws his annoying grin my way or forces me on dates he knows I’ll hate, I’ll just grit my teeth and smile.

Or maybe not. Did I mention that Miles is the one person in the world I can’t seem to fool?

When my emotions begin feeling less like a sham and his arms feel way too comfortable, it makes me think that maybe Miles had a plan of his own. And I’m starting to like it a lot more than mine.

★ Faking Christmas is a sweet, closed door romance full of sizzle, witty banter, and chemistry, but without explicit content.

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