Author: Linsey Hall
Series: Charming Cove Series book #2
Category: Paranormal Romance
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️🌶️
How To Fake-Date a Vampire had everything I love in my fake-dating trope books.
✔️ Embarrassing meet cute
✔️ Animal sidekick
✔️ Desperate circumstances
✔️ Fake-dating scheme
✔️ Meddling grandmother
✔️ Falling in love
Emma was a little quirky but very determined, and all she ever wanted was to find her people and place in life. I was surprised by how judgmental she was of Alaric and his family at first, seemingly set on painting them as selfish and snobby before even getting to know them. Hell, she even had a knee-jerk reaction to judge her familiar when they first met! She would have found her happiness much quicker if she had been a little more open to a life other than the 'normal' one she desperately craved.
"No, my goal was to find somewhere I belonged. Like, really belonged." - Emma
Alaric was so sweet, but deeply distrustful because of his recent problems with his ex. While there was no other woman drama, he did struggle to move past his hurt and that affected his relationship with Emma. Alaric was so kind, and he fell smitten with Emma pretty quickly, though he didn't let himself name how he really felt about her. Above all else, he only wanted to protect the only family he had, aka his grandmother, and he was willing to do whatever it took.
Vivian, Alaric's grandmother, and the rest of his family were so outrageously fun and down to earth. They were all in to help when the situation called for it, and they adored Alaric as much as he loved them. Vivian was the life of the party, and I cracked up at her clear manipulations - I can only hope I have the opportunity to meddle as much when I hit that age.
"He pressed his hands to my hips and adjusted them. Heat raced through me, and I realized that Vivian had set us up. She was incorrigible." - Emma
Overall, the book was an easy read and review with enough chemistry and tension between the main characters to keep me interested until they finally ended up together. I read this as a stand alone but there is a first book in the series that you may want to read first to get more background about the cute town of Charming Cove.
Tropes and Themes: Magic, Fake Dating, Vampire, Small Town.
Blurb
Faking it with a vampire duke should be easy, right?
I’ve got one chance to prove to my coven that I’m worth my wand. But to do it, I'm going to have to make a deal with a vampire duke. I get to use his gorgeous estate in Cornwall to host the Beltane Ball--and in exchange, I'll pretend to be his girlfriend. But it's all a show for his grandmother.
The rules of our fake relationship are simple: No flirting. No emotion. No sex. Easy, right?
Except I can't seem to ignore the allure of the infuriating and devastatingly sexy vampire. Falling for a duke isn’t an option, though. I would lose the anonymity that protects me and my coven, and that would ruin my life--and the lives of those in my coven.
So yeah, totally easy.
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