The Love Wager: The addictive fake dating romcom from the author of Mr Wrong Number

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But when she logs into the dating app to look for new love, she finds none other than Jack: the guy whose hotel room she'd snuck out of. My gripe with the ending is that it felt like Jack took all the heat for how things went down, and I think both characters were equally at fault. Stunningly handsome the two share a few jokes until an irate woman comes over admonishing Jack for talking to her. moving onto the ‘relationship’ aspect of this novel– WHAT THE FUCK WENT ON THE MAJORITY OF THIS BOOK ? I found some of that to be the most enjoyable part of the book – fake dating and there’s only one bed are two of my favourite romance tropes and I think Painter employed both of them quite well here.

i finished this book on may twenty-sixth and i took some time to process everything i read and my full thoughts on it. Even though Hallie and Jack hook up almost immediately in a one night stand at the beginning of the book, after that time is taken to establish them as friends. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs onto the dating app that she has determined will find her new love, she sees none other than Jack, the guy whose room she snuck out of.I literally smiled so much while reading this book, it made me so giddy and it was the most perfect one night stand turned friends to lovers story. The Love Wager is only my second book by Lynn Painter and so far her writing is fun, full of banter, easy to read, interesting without crazy drama. Jack is recently single and Hallie has been single for a while but is ready to get back to looking for love. Their banter is laugh out loud funny, their friendship is genuinely charming and sweet, and their chemistry is *ooo la la!

jack and hallie kept using the excuse ‘oh we slept together so that’s probably why we’re attracted to each other, it’s in our biology’ to excuse their obsessive and unnecessary behaviour towards each other.Wrong Number) provides the perfect rom-com escape in The Love Wager, a trope-driven romance that will remind readers, as they laugh themselves to tears, why they love the genre. She is a community columnist for the Omaha World-Herald, as well as a regular blogger for their parenting section. my previous reading experiences with LPs books have been lukewarm - not bad, but not great - so im pleasantly surprised that i enjoyed this as much as as i did! The book is dual POV, which usually I like, but in this case, we are flipping back and forth multiple times in the same chapter, sometimes after only a couple paragraphs, which is extremely disorienting and lazy. Hallie and Jack both start developing feelings for each other but what is the best course of action?

As I mentioned, I loved Jack and Hallie's witty banter and the thoughts/observations running through their minds. But this brand new book is about Olivia’s brother Jack and tiny bartender/ tax accountant Hallie Piper! Wrong Number or reading this as a standalone story, it makes no difference, as the author does a fantastic job cementing these characters in their own arc fully. Jack Marshall has a crisis about his love life after the playboy uncle he’s always idolized dies alone, leading Jack to cling to his own toxic relationship.My minor criticisms: I completely saw that third act drama coming (same thing with Mr Wrong Number) and IMO it was kinda not enough. That delightful one revolved around Olivia Marshall finding love after she texted a wrong number and fate intervened.

After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it’s time to become a full-on adult. it honestly just seemed like olivia wanted to check in to make sure jack was not going down a path of life destruction. Well in this second book in the series, it’s her brother Jack’s turn to find love, and once again, fate may have something to say! hallie piper was just as bad– somebody needed to yell at hallie kenji kishimoto style and tell her to grow the fuck up.the banter in better than the movies and the do-over were so incredibly good that i found myself giggling and genuinely having a fantastic time because of it. Hallie finds herself with a glass of wine tossed in her face while Jack and Vanessa make their exit. Beyond that, FMC is just completely and totally unlikeable, obstinate, and contrarian, and MMC is not much better. the love wager was by far the worst book i have read in 2023 and i will live by that statement until i die– i would highly recommend staying the HELL away from this book (and if you truly want to endure a lifetime of pain and suffering, get a copy from the library.