Fake It Till You Bake It

A Novel

By: Jamie Wesley

Narrated by: Kassiopia DeVora

A reality TV star and a cupcake-baking football player pretend to be a couple in order to save his bakery in this sweet and sexy romance.

Jada Townsend-Matthews is the most reviled woman in America after turning down a proposal on a reality dating show. When she comes home to lick her wounds, Jada finds herself working at San Diego's newest cupcake bakery, Sugar Blitz, alongside the uptight owner and professional football player Donovan Dell.

When a reporter mistakenly believes Jada and Donovan are an item, they realize they can use the misunderstanding to their advantage to help the bakery and rehabilitate Jada's image. Faking a relationship should be simple, but sometimes love is the most unexpected ingredient.

Fake It Till You Bake It is a sweet confection of a novel, the perfect story to curl up with and enjoy with a cupcake on the side.

©2022 Jamie Wesley (P)2022 Spotify Audiobooks

the oven in the bakery isn’t the only thing that’s heating up

“𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐬”

⭐️: 3.5
🌶️: 2
format: 🎧

tw: abandonment, discrimination, bullying, blackmailing

🧁 third person
🩵 dual pov
🏈 football player x baker mmc
🧁 boujee influencer fmc
🩵 enemies to lovers
🏈 forced proximity
🧁 boss x employee
🩵 fake dating
🏈 poc rep
🧁 disability rep
🩵 pop culture references
🏈 surprising twists

donovan dell is a pro football player & owner of sugar blitz, a cupcakery in san diego. jada townsend-matthews is a boujee influencer. the reality show she was on ended badly, so she’s in search of a job. her grandmother sets her up at none other than the cupcakery where she previously insulted the shop & the cupcakes. eventually, donovan & jada realize that they both can benefit from a little fake dating situation, but what happens when that fake dating becomes a little too real?

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this book was a quick listen. i really loved donovan. jada took a while to start liking. she was pretty insufferable for the first 1/4-1/3 of the book. there was a purpose to this & this was shared later, but it was sooo annoying

i enjoyed the banter that donovan & jada had throughout the book. she was feisty & i loved that about her!

there was a little riff within the last like 30-40 minutes of the book, which was also annoying. and it kinda was just thrown in there. jada randomly was like actually i can’t do this & up and left donovan. it made the ending kinda choppy

i really liked donovan’s mom & grams (jada’s grandmother). they both were sweet and funny & i loved how they looked out for their baby, respectively. i also really liked donovan’s teammates & siblings, and ella. i plan to continue this trilogy at some point in time

🤔 ummm

I love comedy romance books but this one was not my favorite. I love how Jade speaks her mind and has her insecurities and impulsiveness with her dyslexia because I do too, and I could also relate on how her parents think or believe that it’s a discipline thing and how you learn to compensate with other things but the whole relationship moved a bit way too fast and did not allowed to any room for the audience to relate to how they come to become a couple. And yes the ending set for a second buck but it did now let a lot of things to unfold, just because they said that they love each other does not mean that the insecurities of Jade fade away, and that everything is all happy and dandy.

I enjoyed this romance story

I liked the interaction between the characters and the plot was good. I will definitely look for more books to read by this author.

SWEET AND SASSY

I loved the story line and how each character was bought to life. There were definitely some moments where I chuckled out loud as I listened to the audio version of this book.

Most importantly the story didn’t veer off and try to tell the story of every character at one time in one book you know the main focus was Jada and Donovan.

I am a sports lover as well and so it was really nice to see that as part of the front story giving a good relationship with players and owners I thought that was a good touch.

predictable and a bit shallow

The story was well defined but boring and predictable, even for romance (and I love romance).

Nice & sweet

I enjoyed the story. I love how it ended with a set up for a 2nd book. I’ll keep an eye out. I hope she write a book for the other plays owning the bakery.

Hate To Love

Love the Hate to Love Trope. Always entertaining. Listened to this in the car and grocery stores for days. Funny and interesting

Good story.

Starting it was hard to enjoy but as I continued to listen the story developed and it was a good read.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

How stinkin cute. I enjoyed laughing and smiling throughout the book. Can’t wait to read more from this author.

I want a sequel lol

I fell in love with these characters from the start. I audio performance brought them to life masterfully!