GRR Review April's Fool by Blanche Marriott

April's Fool started with a meet-cute between an empty crush fancy and ended with real love and vow of devotion and a lot of interesting circumstances in between to blur the line between a marriage of convenience and true love.

April made a fake wedding album with Photoshop with her and a beau from the same building, Michael Goode, without his knowledge. Unfortunately, during girls' night out she left it in a restaurant and it eventually ended up on his desk... and he knew who made it. But confronting her didn't go as expected for him, so he went for Plan B: ask her to be his... pretend wife (without the vows, but with the ring and other stuff) so he can secure his promotion when the current CEO retires. But when the pretend parties and such ignite some real passion, can they admit they actually have feelings, or will they hide it?

April obviously had eyes for Michael for a while, but it's unrequited, while Michael is simply... love at first sight with a lot of denial (i.e. "I would never settle down"). April has to pretend she hates Michael who then pretends to love Michael, ouch! Michael, on the other hand, grows more fond of April very day. The darkest hour and grand gesture were rolled into one scene in a quick move! That's an interesting plot.

All in all, a lot of fun reading, esp. when the ex's started to try to make a mess of things, not to mention some plain outrage and jealousy.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: woman who embarrassed an exec agreed to be exec's pretend wife, then they developed real feelings

Tropes: marriage of convenience

Overall Rating:  4/5