Book Review - The Faking Game by Portia MacIntosh

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Title: The Faking Game

Author: Portia MacIntosh

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Boldwood Books

Publication Date: 5th October 2023

Rating: 5 Stars

Cara and Millsy have broken up... sort of.

After years of being everyone's favourite couple, always up for a party and having fun wherever they go, things have fizzled out.

But when they realise they have a whole calendar of events and celebrations with friends and family coming up, Cara and Millsy can't face letting them down.

So they decide to make a pact: just convince everyone they're as madly in love as ever and get through the festivities without causing suspicion, and then deal with the break up in the new year. How hard can it be...?

Swept up in the festive spirit, will Cara and Millsy fake it til they make it? Or will they realise they are meant to be after all...?

Portia MacIntosh has done it again, and written yet another utterly hilarious book. 

This time with a pair of characters who are known for getting into sticky situations and coming up with ingenious ways of getting out of them. Plus Cara absolutely loves playing games, which already made me love her. 

In fact Cara is an escape room designer, a job I would have loved to learn more about as it is so unusual.  

And Millsy is wonderful too, complete with his new accents coach, who has to follow him around constantly to work  on his Southern accent for a film he is shooting in the new year. 

However Cara and Millsy have technically broken up but agreed to fake still being together over the run up to and over the Christmas period so that they don't upset all of their families.  So this is a fake dating trope, but with a couple that were already a couple to start with, which is a nice spin on it. 

And the various situations they get themselves into, always had me giggling away to myself.  This is a fabulously light hearted festive story,  full of weddings, a whole range of family dynamics, some online dating escapades and a whole lot more. 

I couldn't get enough of this story, and it was a total joy to read. 

Thank you to Boldwood Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.