Book Review: Loving Gavin by Pixie Perkins

How far would you go to keep your crush a secret?

Mckessey Owens is in love with Gavin Miller (aka: her best friend’s older brother). Does anyone know about her feelings for him? HECK. NO. And she doesn’t want them to. So, it’s understandable that she freaks out when her partially written love letter for Gavin falls into the hands of her nemesis, Alex Miller (aka: her best friend’s evil twin).

Alex always manages to ruin EVERYTHING and Mckessey isn’t willing to let him sabotage her crush on Gavin, which is why she comes up with a crazy lie instead: she tells Alex the letter is about him.

Unfortunately, he’s not convinced and wants her to prove it.

Desperate to keep the truth hidden, Mckessey asks to be his girlfriend. And even though it’s very clear that he’s not interested in her—Alex agrees to them becoming a couple, expecting to be right about the whole thing.

But it’s only a matter of time until Mckessey finds out that pretending to be in love with one brother while secretly pining over the other brother is no easy task; especially when she has ZERO dating experience and starts realizing that Alex might not be as horrible as she thought…

~Loving Gavin is a hate-to-love/best friend's brother/one-sided fake relationship/neighbors YA romance. This book has lots of swoony kissing and flirting, but there is no swearing or other explicit content.~

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I bought this book after seeing it on Instagram because it looked like a cute idea. And it was indeed a cute book. Love the whole pretending to date your worst enemy to hide your secret crush's identity.  Obviously, she was shipping herself with the wrong brother, but I was here for her to figure that out. I don't read YA so much anymore now that I'm no longer a teenager and the thought of teenagers kissing makes me want to go chase them off my lawn or something, but that aside, this was a really cute book and perfect for lovers of rom-coms (me) and YA (less me, but the rom-com won out). 

Note for more sensitive readers: characters are said to be swearing, though nothing is spelled out (someone still needs to wash those kids' mouths, though), and there is a lot of kissing (again, wash those kids' mouths).

 Speaking or rom-coms . . .

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She's in love with her married business partner.
He just hired her for a job.
Neither had any idea what they were getting into.

Marina always knew what she wanted in life: to be a successful private investigator in her adopted country and Kristian Clark. But when he loses everything but gains a wife, she still tries to have both as the business partner to a man who can no longer show his face to the public and has a happy private life.

Everything changes, though, when she takes an off-the-record job from a foreign diplomat, Eitan Cohren who needs her help to find a missing girl. There is a life beyond pining for her first love- but the choice to move on may be beyond her control.

Originally published in Ruptured Reality and Other Short Stories, now re-released with bonus chapters and an exclusive sneak peek of Operation Paradise Lost!

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