Review and Excerpt Tour
for REAL KIND OF LOVE by Sara Rider!
In REAL KIND OF
LOVE by Sara Rider, Clem and Jake have one week to convince her quirky,
overbearing family that their relationship is real during a summer vacation at
a lakefront cottage. Fans of ACT LIKE IT by Lucy Parker and ACTING ON IMPULSE
by Mia Sosa will love this spicy, lighthearted contemporary romance novel
featuring a grumpy hero and introverted heroine. Find out what happens when a
fake relationship turns into a real kind of love.
Title: Real Kind of Love
Author: Sara Rider
Release
Date: June
5, 2018
Publisher:
Self-published
Series: Books & Brews #1
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Page
Count: 242
Format: Print & Digital
Synopsis:
As an audiobook narrator, Clementine Cox
has no trouble mastering the voices of space aliens, elven warriors, or even
demon-possessed cats. But the moment she tries her hand at an erotic romance,
she’s stumped. With her deadline looming, she books a week at a secluded cabin
to restore her inner muse, telling her loving-but-overbearing family it’s a
romantic getaway with her not-so-existent new boyfriend to keep them from
worrying. She never expects them to invite themselves along to meet the new
guy. Now, she has less than twenty-four hours to find a pretend boyfriend in
order to save her job and, potentially, her sanity.
Workaholic Jake Donovan isn’t interested in a real relationship. After a broken engagement, all he wants to do is focus on keeping his brewpub, the Holy Grale, afloat. But when he finds out his favorite customer is in need of a fake boyfriend, and his business partners insist he take a long overdue vacation, he has no choice but to help Clem out. All he has to do is enjoy the sunshine, play nice with her family, and keep his hands to himself for the week.
But Jake’s not prepared to like waking up next to Clem every morning as much as he does. Or to feel so welcome by her quirky family. And as the line between real and fake starts to blur, he realizes one week might never be enough.
Workaholic Jake Donovan isn’t interested in a real relationship. After a broken engagement, all he wants to do is focus on keeping his brewpub, the Holy Grale, afloat. But when he finds out his favorite customer is in need of a fake boyfriend, and his business partners insist he take a long overdue vacation, he has no choice but to help Clem out. All he has to do is enjoy the sunshine, play nice with her family, and keep his hands to himself for the week.
But Jake’s not prepared to like waking up next to Clem every morning as much as he does. Or to feel so welcome by her quirky family. And as the line between real and fake starts to blur, he realizes one week might never be enough.
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Review: OK this book was just so fun. It has one of my favorite tropes, the make believe boyfriend turned lover. If this is one of your favorite tropes, you need to read this book. You absolutely won't regret it.
I also love Clem's career. Its nice to see romance character having a bookish job. Jake is dealing with trying to keep his pub open, though there really isn't any real pressing financial issues for him. Clem is trying to get voices right for a romance novel that she's narrating.
I don't think I've ever liked two characters as much as these two. There were so many moments that had me laughing out loud that it would be hard to list them. They were absolutely perfect. It was hard to believe that they didn't see how perfect they were together. The chemistry between Clem and Jake is fabulous.
Even better than those two are Clem's family. OMG if they belonged to me, I probably would have run away from home, because I have a similar personality to Clem. They were so delightfully weird and nuts!
I found myself wanting to cast all of them for a movie, because this book would make a fabulous chick flick. There were so many slapstick moments and craziness, when they were on vacation with Clem's family. It is really impossible not to love this book.
I was a little freaked out by Clem's mom at the end, because who keeps that kind of issue from their daughter? Also the pills mentioned could have been for anyone that might have had a blockage and had an angioplasty. I'm the daughter of a woman who has had multiple heart attacks, so I'm picky when this kind of illness appears in books.
That aside, the ending was so wonderful that I cried. What Jake did for Clem was beautiful.
This is definitely one of my favorite romances this year!
Rating: 5 flowers
REAL KIND OF LOVE Excerpt
Copyright
© 2018 Sara Rider
With a deep breath, she opened her eyes to see
Jake standing in front of her with his arms crossed. She swallowed the bile
rising in her throat, reminding herself that if mortification could actually
kill, she’d have been a pile of ashes by now.
“Tomorrow?”
“Thanks for playing along. For the record, you
die of Ebola tonight. Or dysentery. Whichever one works faster.”
“Clem.” He tilted his head toward her, voice
deepening to a low growl. “Why do your sisters think we’re dating?”
“I kind of told them I was going on a romantic
getaway this week so they wouldn’t tag along on my vacation. Except instead of
giving me space, they booked the cabin right next door and now I need you to
use that hammer to build me a tiny little coffin while I curl up and die.”
“Wait a second,” Julia said from the dining room
doorway with Eli standing next to her, grinning. “You lied to your family about
having a boyfriend and now they think Jake is coming with you on vacation
tomorrow?”
“Of course you and Eli overheard,” she mumbled.
“I know it was a terrible idea but—”
“It’s a great idea!”
Clem wiped her clammy palms against the ugly
pair of basketball shorts she was still wearing and tried to fathom the reason
for Julia’s wide grin. “Sure, if you think watching me dig myself into a deep
hole with no escape is fun.”
“You don’t need an escape. You need Jake.”
“What?” Her and Jake’s gazes met like a head-on
collision.
Eli rubbed his palms together. “I don’t know
what devious idea is churning in your brain, Sis, but I have a feeling it’s
going to be good.”
“It’s simple. I need Jake to get out of my hair
for the next week before he micromanages the wedding I’ve been planning to
death, and you need a fake boyfriend. It’s perfect.”
It would be perfect, the devil on Clem’s
shoulder whispered. Her family was so desperate to see her in a relationship,
they’d probably actually give her some space this week. Maybe even enough that
she could focus on the recording she needed to turn over to the publisher two
weeks from now.
But it was a ridiculous idea. There was no way
Jake would go for it. He had a business. A life. A fiancée. Crap. “You
can’t be serious?”
“Sorry, man,” Eli said, raising his palms. “My
vote’s with Julia. We outnumber you.”
Jake’s jaw clenched so hard, Clem could see the
pulse point ticking in his neck. Her heart thumped against her chest as she
waited for him to laugh at her. Or shake his head in disgust. Because there was
no way he would actually go through with this.
She braced herself for rejection as he turned
toward her, expression grim. “I’m game if you are.”
Holy shit.
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About Sara Rider:
Sara Rider writes contemporary romance full of
heart, heat, and happily ever after. She lives in British Columbia with her
husband and daughters. She spends far too much time in public libraries and
never leaves the home without her e-reader stuffed in her purse.
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