Fake Fianceé

By: Ilsa Madden-Mills

Narrated by: Yvonne Syn, Alastair Haynesbridge

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's Summary

From WSJ best-selling Author Ilsa Madden-Mills comes a new stand-alone contemporary romance.

Fake engaged to the hottest quarterback in the country? Score.

They say nothing compares to your first kiss, but our first kiss was orchestrated for an audience.

Our second kiss...that one was real.

He cradled my face like he was terrified he'd f--k it up.

He stared into my eyes until the air buzzed.

Soft and slow, full of sighs and little laughs, he inhaled me like I was the finest Belgian chocolate, and he'd never get another piece.

A nip of his teeth, his hand at my waist...and I was lost.

I forgot he was paying me to be his fake fiancée.

I forgot we weren't real.

Our kiss was pure magic, and before you laugh and say those kinds of kisses don't exist, then you've never touched lips with Max Kent, the hottest quarterback in college history.

Three months. Two hearts. One fake engagement.

©2017 Ilsa Madden-Mills (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Just One Small Request

I enjoyed this audiobook. It had the right mix of romance and storyline. The only thing that I did not like the insinuation that a 40 year old man was old and that Mimi who was 65 had to be in assisted living. I hope that you are not in assisted living when you are 65. Other than that, it was enjoyable. TY.

Everything I love about New Adult

Story
This book was everything I love about New Adult. I loved the hero and the heroine. Sunny and Max are both fresh off of break-ups. Sunny is just trying to make it through the semester. She picked classes with her ex-boyfriend and she is not enjoying the fact that she has to see him. Max is also not looking forward to seeing his ex. He just want to focus on football and getting nominated for the Heisman. Sunny and Max decide to become a fake couple to make him look good for the nomination and get a little payback on their exes.

I loved that this book was low on drama. Sometimes New Adult has drama just to have drama. Sunny wasn't very experienced with guys but she also wasn't naive. She had her limits and stuck to them. Max also wasn't the typical athlete. He was smart and he was not a manwhore. He was in the past but it wasn't a big plot point in the story. Sunny and Max had a little tragedy in their past but they were strong despite those issues.

Narration
I swear when every I see atypical names for narrators I think its an alias. As far as for these narrators names, this is the first book I have listened to from either narrator but their voices sound very familiar. This book had dual narration so Yvonne Syn read all chapters in the heroine's POV and Alastair Haynesbridge read all of the chapter's in the male POV. I really enjoyed Yvonne as Sunny. I felt her voice really fit the character. She also did a good job with the male characters. Same for Alastair's narration of Max. He fit that character very well and also did a good job with the female characters. There was a British male character in this book and I think both narrators did a good job with the accent.

Overall I listened to this book fairly quickly and it was enjoyable. I enjoyed the narration and would listen to another book from these narrators. I have all this author's books on audio but this is the first one I have listened to. I will definitely be making a dent in those books.

Suprised how much I liked

I was able to get when it was a great whisper-sync deal and honestly was a bit turned off by the title. The story had more meat to it than the title suggested to me. I think the author could have done more with they mystery and stalking but I still liked what was there. The narrators were new; the male wasn't quite as good with the female voices but didn't turn me off. I would explore more from the author and narrators.

Gah! My heart 😍

I read the book so it only made sense for me to get the audiobook. I knew that Ilsa wouldn't disappoint, I read and heard her previous books and loved them, so her choice for her narrators were spot on. Yvonne and Alastair's performance as Sunny and Max were believable and the chemistry was wow! Loved everything about this story!

Cute Story

I felt that the female voice could have acted out the story better, but overall it was good.

4 stars bc it was an enjoyable story w humor

I have to say that in this specific genre stars are not awarded for the complexity, ingenuity, difficulty and research of a subject, story and the characters. Because if it were most of these books should be, if fairly rated, be given 2-3 stars. But let's face it we reward stars for a different reason with these books. I liked the story- it did have a little complexity and I like football and I laughed at the humor.
On a personal note and this doesn't have anything to do w the story per se, but it's a little disappointing that female authors use language and characters that promote certain ongoing and frankly destructive stereotypes such as saying " legs that go on forever". Blah blah blah. Is no other body type interesting to men or considered beautiful r at least acceptable by society as something good to have that a man myth be interested in? And also characterizing a 65 year old woman the way she did- sounding like a crazy, somewhat disabled old lady. Good grief. Wake up- have you met a few 65 year olds? Most are still pretty young - lots of stereotypes.

A touchdown!

I am a huge sucker for sports romances and this book was fun, sweet and goosebump inducing (the good kind)!! I loved everything about this story from the insanely HOT hero Max; the girl next door (literally) heroine Sunny; the slow sexy burn that was their fake relationship to something more; and the warm heart flutters that each scene evoked! This was a charming story that didn't have the usual predictable storyline that other fake couple tropes have and this is what made this book so enjoyable!!

Everything you ever wanted in a fake fiancee!

Who doesn't love the fake fiancee trope!?! Come on it's the epitome of fairytale!

A rugged good looking guy trusts you to help him and in the midst of chaos, drama, conniving hos, and bad people....the possibility of Love!

Yeah this hopeless romantic was sold on the blurb! I even got over the man bun once I realized why...because I previously was anti- man bun. Okay I still am with an exception for a certain hot quarterback!

It's all kinds of naughty and nice. And worth every twist of the circumstances.

Anticlimactic :-(

So this one started off great and I couldn't wait to see where Ilsa would take this story. Unfortunately it didn't go anywhere. I kept waiting for something exciting to happen and it never did! Maybe I was writing a different story in my head. LOL. I just knew that Bianca or Felix would do something crazy and get caught. But no, everyone just grew up, went on with life and put everthing behind them like nothing happened. Huh?? At the end I just felt like the entire book built up to a big fat zero!

Great Story!!!!

I loved this story and the narrators we're great!!! Would recommend this book if your looking for a feel good HEA.
Can't wait to see what Ilsa Madden-Mills has in store for us next.....

Best book

I love this book and love to listen to more of these books, from sexy footballs to lots of drama and romance and sex sense to make mt bluss when I was listen will work

Nope!

I slept through the first half of the book and even when I backtracked I still didn't know what was happening. The second half was... Smh. Just no.