Monday, November 25, 2024

Book Review: "Nothing Left to Lose" by N.R. Walker

I don’t know what it is about fake dating as a romance trope, but I can’t get enough. (I once fake-dated someone in seventh grade for like two days, but that’s another story.)

Brody and Miller have been best friends for 11 years, since the first year of high school. A lot of the time they’re inseparable, and they know almost everything about one another. In fact, Brody is the first person Miller ever came out to. But there’s just one little thing:

“We’d been inseparable for eleven years, and I’d been desperately in love with him for every hopeless minute of those eleven years.”

Miller has been able to tamp down his feelings for Brody, even as he watches him bed a parade of women. But lately, it’s becoming harder and harder to want someone as badly as he wants Brody, and he doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life pining for someone who doesn’t feel the same way about him.

When they win a photo contest, the prize is an all-expense say in Las Vegas. But there’s one catch: it was a contest for newlyweds. That’s right, Miller’s straight best friend entered them in a photo contest and they have to pretend to be married for the weekend. While that should thrill Miller, it actually makes him sad, because he wants the real thing. And that can’t happen, right? Right?

N.R. Walker is an author I discovered this year and I have loved her books. For me, the combination of emotion, steam, and humor is always a hit, and I so enjoy having characters to root for.

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