Genre: Contemporary
LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian
Reviewer: Lucy
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About The Book
One rule: don’t fall for your best friend’s straight sister. Especially not when she’s pretending to be your fake girlfriend.
Chelsea Moore is officially divorced from her asshole husband, and after wasting her early twenties putting up with his shit, she’s burning to get out there and play the field—especially a certain kinkier side he made her feel like garbage about.
Kyle Walker’s terrified to put herself out there. According to her mother, she doesn’t have the looks to hook anyone, but what makes it worse is that her dating history falls in line. However, when her family tries to claim she’s not really a lesbian, she tells them she’s bringing her girlfriend to Christmas. Only problem? She doesn’t have one.
In comes sexy, newly divorced, and straight Chelsea Moore to the rescue—her best friend Aubrey’s little sister. She’s doing Kyle a favor—like any friend would—except Kyle’s half in love with her from the moment they start hanging out. All too soon those lines begin to blur—lingering touches, flirting, kissing…. And when they connect on kink and begin hooking up, that’s when Kyle knows she’s screwed.
Chelsea might have Aubrey to protect her heart, but Kyle could lose both her best friend and the only woman who’s made her feel like she’s worth more.
The Review
This well-written story takes the ‘best friend’s sister’, ‘fake girlfriend’, and ‘out for you’ tropes and twists them into a lovely novel about finding yourself while finding something special with someone else. This is part of a series of connected novels, but it totally read as a standalone. The characters are so real and relatable, and the story telling is truly excellent.
Chelsea has always been the good girl, the peace maker, and has watched her father pull further and further away from her out, lesbian sister, Aubrey. So when Chelsea’s offer to be Kyle’s plus-one at a stressful family gathering turns into the beginning of something more than hanging out with her sister’s best friend, Chelsea keeps it to herself, not even sharing it with Aubrey.
Kyle is trying to undo a lifetime of belittle and gas lighting by her mother, and doesn’t do well with compliments or have an accurate gauge of her self-worth. So when she and Chelsea begin hanging out, she convinces herself it can’t last.
This is a lovely tale of found family, second chances, and true love. There are some mild kink but it’s limited to power exchanges and restraints. The sex is explicit, on-page, and very, very, hot. This is a fabulous, sweetly sexy story, and I can’t wait to go explore Katherine McIntyre’s backlist, especially other stories in this series.
The Reviewer
I’m an avid reader who loves pretty much all genres except math textbooks. As a kid, my parents exposed me to everything from fairies, hobbits, and dragons to the biographies of interesting people around the world, interspersed with poetry, plays, and music. Into adulthood, I spent a lot of years with my nose buried in various textbooks. Now, I read whatever grabs my fancy.
