"Audrey still believed in happy endings. She believed in them with her whole heart. She believed that a man and a woman could get married and live happily ever after as long as someone else didn't come along and ruin that happiness."
Audrey and Clarke have been best friends since childhood. She knows he’s a womanizer; he knows she has been nursing a broken heart for a while now after discovering her boyfriend was married. (And had another girlfriend.) But they’re almost always each other’s plus one, buddy, or confidante, depending upon what’s needed.
At times, Audrey has been needed to pretend her relationship with Clarke is more serious, in order to thwart a woman he’s not interested in. But when an old girlfriend who actually wounded Charlie returns, and his manipulative mother tries to push them together, Charlie doubles-down on his favorite defense, and tells them he and Audrey are engaged.
Battling a social media scandal of her own, the idea of a fake engagement doesn’t seem as wrong to Audrey as it should. But as they’re forced to make their relationship seem more genuine, and they try to figure out how to disentangle themselves, she starts falling in love with the planning process, with the idea of actually getting married. And as someone who has shied away from love, she starts to realize that she’s having real feelings for the one person she shouldn’t—her fake fiancé. But he couldn’t feel the same way, could he?
Layne’s "Central Park Pact" trilogy was a lot of fun, and this is a fitting end. (I'm sad it's the end, but I get it.) I will admit that the fake love trope may be my least favorite, and I thought the will-they-or-won’t-they thing went on a bit too long, but I enjoyed these characters very much. This series definitely surpassed my initial expectations—I was expecting Sex and the City but got much more than that.
Here’s to another book that makes you fall in love with love!!
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