“If we’re going to fake it, is it so bad if we enjoy it while we do?” – 4.5/5 stars!

Attention! This book contains: fake dating, legacies, parties, deals, internships, wallflowers, new contracts, and… only one bed!

Surely this can’t be the only solution to overhaul my tarnished rep – faking a romance with the good girl intern?

But that’s what my agent says. Just a few months of taming my ways—of shedding Formula 1’s party boy image—will land me a lifetime branding deal. One I desperately need.

The key condition?

Pretend I’m madly in love with my new girlfriend. The quiet wallflower who I figured wouldn’t put me in my place. Yeah. This girl is anything but that.

Maddix Hart is defiant and intelligent. Loyal and real. Determined and sexy. And damn it to hell, before I know it, she’s in my head, in our bed . . . and if I’m not careful, she’ll see there’s more to me than the man I show the public. She’ll discover the man I hide from the world. The one who struggles to live up to the unrealistic expectations that should never have been mine.

All I have to do is make sure no one sees the truth behind our farce.

But instead, I let my heart get involved. I begin to believe the lie. And now with everything on the line—the deal, a championship, us—am I willing to risk it all to make her see what the rest of the world believes? That we belong together.

A spicy, only-one-bed Formula 1 romance.

I loved this! I wasn’t very excited to continue this series after reading the first book, but I was surprised by how much fun I had reading this.
The main characters made this book shine because they were very likable – if you compare them to the first couple in the previous book, you’ll see a big difference, in my opinion. Cruz was a great male lead – and I’m pretty sure the inspiration for this character was Carlos Sainz (but I could be wrong) -, and I also really liked Maddix as the female lead because even though she was a bit of a wallflower, she still had a backbone! I really liked them together and their banter. As far as tropes go, I would describe this as a fake dating trope and a forced proximity trope – also, there’s a sharing-one-bed trope, which is always a treat for a romance reader!
I also enjoyed reading about the relationship between the lead and his father. They had a very difficult dynamic, so it was an interesting addition to the mix.
The writing was great, and compared the the previous book, this had a better pace and plot structure. I really liked how the author explored their connection and made it into a beautiful story.
This was way better than the first book in my opinion – the plot was better, the characters were better, the romance was top-notch… Can’t wait for the next book.