Review: Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley

Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley

Blurb from Goodreads:

A reality star and a cupcake-baking football player pretend to be a couple in order to save his bakery in this sweet and sexy romance from Jamie Wesley, Fake It Till You Bake It…

Jada Townsend-Matthews is the most reviled woman in America after turning down a proposal on a reality dating show. When she comes home to lick her wounds, Jada finds herself working at San Diego's newest cupcake bakery, Sugar Blitz, alongside the uptight owner and professional football player Donovan Dell.

When a reporter mistakenly believes Jada and Donovan are an item, they realize they can use the misunderstanding to their advantage to help the bakery and rehabilitate Jada's image. Faking a relationship should be simple, but sometimes love is the most unexpected ingredient.

Fake it Till You Bake It is a sweet confection of a novel, the perfect story to curl up with and enjoy with a cupcake on the side.

 I wish I loved this book as much as I love its cover! It was cute but something was a bit off with the romance -- it went from enemies to lovers not too quickly but also not organically.  It felt a bit rushed and the cupcake aspect felt off too.  Based on other characters in this book as well as the book's ending, I assume there will be more books in this world and I will try to them out with my fingers crossed.  Hope you have better luck!

Fake It Till You Bake It comes out next week on June 21, 2022 and you can purchase HERE.  

Donovan Dell was a professional football player who loved to bake. 

Seriously. 

He was used to the quizzical looks people gave him when they learned he, a man who made a living terrorizing quarterbacks, co-owned Sugar Blitz, San Diego's latest and best cupcakery. He didn't care, though. 

Baking relaxed him. Running his own business thrilled him. His plans for his post-playing career were starting to take root. Exactly how he'd planned.