My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Every action has a consequence, and Claire Ward knows it. And yet, even knowing that her decision to swap places with her identical twin sister, Lia, for a night could be disastrous, she still does it.
Why?
Because it will give her an evening with the man she’s been crushing on for years, Lia’s best friend, Finn.
Miss Straight A Student has thought through all the angles, and knows the risk is worth it. And everything would have been fine, if Finn had been the one to show up at her door.
But it wasn’t.
Bauer Davis— Finn’s half brother and his exact opposite in just about every definable category is the one waiting for her instead. A professional snowboarder, Bauer is covered in ink, full of attitude, and has a chip on his shoulder the size of Mt. Olympus. The kind of bad boy that Claire has never been attracted to before.
Now the good girl is with the wrong brother for a night, and when the consequence is that they have to pretend to be together for an event, it’s nothing she could have predicted. But maybe, just maybe, what makes Bauer so bad, is exactly what Claire needs.
Faked
The bad boy and the good girl!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 🙂🥰😎
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration
The heroine: Claire Ward – she is in college and about to start her master’s for developmental psychology. She also has an identical twin named Lia. When they were young, they met the new kid in school named Finn and though they looked exactly alike, Finn picked Lia as his best friend. Claire had a crush on him ever since. So, when Lia asked her to go to a social event with Finn so she could attend a Lecture, Claire was talked into it.
The Hero: Bauer Davis – he was a semi-pro snowboarder who was trying to make it to the next olympics. However, he was just dropped by his sponsor for something that was posted on twitter in which he was drinking and swearing at someone. Though the video clip didn’t catch the fact that the other guy had been saying indecent things about a girl that was standing there. Bauer travels home to try to get his sponsor back or a new sponsor. Though when he gets home, his step-brother Finn is sick and can’t make it to the event with a bunch of sports industry people. Bauer goes in place of Finn.
The Story: Bauer immediately knows who Claire actually is, so her twin swap didn’t work, though he played like he thought she was Lia. Claire had wanted the chance to hang out with Finn, even while acting like her sister, so she wasn’t happy when she saw that it was Finn’s black sheep stepbrother. Though she soon finds out that there is more to Bauer than she had been told. Finn’s mother had a great deal of animosity towards Bauer and treated him as such, and her husband who was Bauer’s actual father, didn’t step in at all.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Connor Crais and Cindy Kay. I picked this book because I really love Connor Crais’ voice. He has a soft, but deep voice that is very sexy. Though I could have done without Cindy Kay as the female narrator. She sounds like she is completely and utterly depressed. She speaks way too slowly and has no life or vibrancy to her voice.
The story was a little slow moving, and it wasn’t just the narration, though that certainly didn’t help. I did like the character of Bauer, who took charge of his own life, and did what he wanted despite all the flack he got from his family. Claire was a bit boring as a character. She was intelligent and a bit shy and I just couldn’t really connect with the character. She was a bit too naïve and wide-eyed for my liking.
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