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Two people make a wager on who can find love first, not realizing what they should be betting on is each other, in this new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Wrong Number. Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it’s time to become a full-on adult. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs onto the dating app that she has determined will find her new love, she sees none other than Jack, the guy whose room she snuck out of. After agreeing they are absolutely not interested in each other, Jack and Hallie realize they’re each other’s perfect wing-person in their searches for The One. They text each other about their dates, often scheduling them at the same restaurant so that if things don’t go well, the two of them can get tacos afterward. Spoiler: they get a lot of tacos together. Discouraged by the lack of prospects, Jack and Hallie make a wager to see who can find true love first, but when they agree to be fake dates for a weekend wedding, all bets are off. As they pretend to be a couple, lines become blurred and they both struggle to remember why the other was a bad idea to begin with.
Two people make a wager on who can find love first, not realizing what they should be betting on is each other, in this new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Wrong Number. Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it’s time to become a full-on adult. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs onto the dating app that she has determined will find her new love, she sees none other than Jack, the guy whose room she snuck out of. After agreeing they are absolutely not interested in each other, Jack and Hallie realize they’re each other’s perfect wing-person in their searches for The One. They text each other about their dates, often scheduling them at the same restaurant so that if things don’t go well, the two of them can get tacos afterward. Spoiler: they get a lot of tacos together. Discouraged by the lack of prospects, Jack and Hallie make a wager to see who can find true love first, but when they agree to be fake dates for a weekend wedding, all bets are off. As they pretend to be a couple, lines become blurred and they both struggle to remember why the other was a bad idea to begin with.
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Hallie
"Can I get a Manhattan and a chardonnay, please?"
"Sure thing." Hallie glanced over her shoulder as she handed one of the bridesmaids a Crown and Coke, and-wow-the dude shouting his order over the way-too-loud version of "Electric Slide" was very attractive. He was obviously in the bridal party, all tuxxed-up and looking fancy, and even though she'd sworn off dating, Hallie couldn't help but appreciate the dimples and the Hollywood bone structure. "You want that with bourbon?"
He leaned on his forearms and stretched a little closer to the bar as the hotel's ballroom hit peak noise level. "Rye, please."
"Nice." She reached into the gray plastic bucket and pulled a California bottle out of the ice. "Interested in trying it with orange bitters?"
His dimples popped and he raised his eyebrows, his blue(?)-yes, blue-eyes squinting. "Is that a thing?"
"It is." She poured the chardonnay and set the glass in front of him. "If you're not a moron, you'll love it."
He coughed a laugh and said, "I consider myself to be generally non-moronic, so hook me up."
Hallie started making his drink, and she kind of felt like she knew the guy. He seemed familiar. Not his face, necessarily, but his voice and super-tall height and twinkly eyes that made him look like he was down for any wild adventure.
She glanced at him as the dance floor's disco lights lit up his dark hair. Shaking the mixer and straining the Manhattan into a glass, she struggled to come up with it; think, think, think. He was looking back in the direction of the head table when it finally hit her.
"I know how I know you!"
He turned back around. "What?"
It was so loud that Hallie had to lean a little closer to him. She smiled and said, "You're Jack, right? I'm Hallie. I was the one who sold you the-"
"Hey!" he said, smiling, but then he set his hand on hers and gave her hard-core eye contact as he leaned closer and said, "Hallie. Listen. Let's not mention-"
"Oh. My. God." A blonde appeared beside him-where did she come from?-and her eyes narrowed as she looked at Hallie and said, "Seriously, Jack? The waitress?"
"Bartender," Hallie corrected, having no idea why she felt the need or what was up Superblonde's ass.
"You leave me alone for ten minutes-at your sister's wedding, for God's sake-to canoodle with the waitress?"
"Um, I can assure you there was no canoodling," Hallie said, painfully aware that the woman's loud voice was drawing a lot of attention. "And I'm a bartender, not a waitr-"
"Can you just shut up?" Superblonde said it through her nose and with the last word pitched an octave higher, like she was a Kardashian.
"Would you relax, Vanessa?" Jack said through his teeth, glancing over his lady friend's head as he tried to get her to quiet down. "I don't even know her-"
"I saw you!" She was near-yelling as the DJ switched to "Endless Love," which did zero to mute the outburst. Where is the damn "Macarena" when you need it? Superblonde-Vanessa, apparently-said, "You were leaning in and holding her hand. How long has this-"
"Come on, Van, it's not-"
"How long?" she shrieked.
The guy's jaw flexed, like he was clenching and unclenching his teeth, and then he said, "Since this morning."
Vanessa's mouth dropped open. "You were with her this morning?"
"Not with me with me," Hallie said, looking around, horrified by the implication. She worked part-time at Borsheim's on the weekends. The guy, Jack, had come into the store that morning, and she'd helped him find a ring.
And not just any ring.
The ring.
The...
Reviews-
November 28, 2022 Painter follows up Mr. Wrong Number with an equally cute friends to lovers romance. Jack Marshall has a crisis about his love life after the playboy uncle he’s always idolized dies alone, leading Jack to cling to his own toxic relationship. That plan blows up in his face at the wedding of his sister, Olivia, to his best friend, Colin—the protagonists of the previous book—where Jack gets dumped and winds up hooking up with the bartender, Hallie Piper, instead. For Hallie, drunkenly hooking up with a stranger in the middle of her shift is rock bottom, but Jack turns out to be a kind and supportive confidant. The two of them make a bet: the first one to get their lives in order and find true love wins. Wing-manning for each other over a series of disastrous dates brings them closer—so close that when Hallie needs a date for her own sister’s wedding, Jack steps in to play her fake boyfriend. Though Jack doesn’t feel quite as fleshed out as potty-mouthed spark plug Hallie, their equally filthy sense of humor makes their connection feel real and their game of constant one-upmanship is a lot of fun. Painter’s fans won’t be disappointed. Agent: Kim Lionetti, Bookends.
December 1, 2022
Hallie Piper feels like she has hit rock bottom as she finds herself crawling out of a hotel room, without a bra and in squirrel panties, after a drunken and steamy one-night stand. After that, she decides to make over her life with a new full-time job, haircut, wardrobe, apartment, and profile on a dating app. With this fresh start, why does she swipe into her one-night stand, Jack? Swearing they don't want to date each other, they instead make a friendly wager over who will find true love via app first. Speed dating, with dates that start out as The One but quickly turn sour, Jack and Hallie are there for one another, meeting at a local taco shop to rehash their bad dates. When Hallie needs a date for her sister's wedding, Jack steps in, agreeing to be her fake boyfriend for the weekend. As any romance fan can guess, this fake dating is the push that the friends-to-lovers couple needs to finally give into their feelings. VERDICT A fun, flirty, and timely read from Painter (Mr. Wrong Number), with likable characters to boot.--Erin Holt
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