A fake relationship with a lifelong crush? What could go wrong? (Hint: everything!)
Ellie Charles will do anything for anyone, despite her honest streak making it awkward. But a fake relationship?
That’s one thing she won’t do. She deserves the real deal.
After James Moore’s high school sweetheart calls off their engagement, he fully intends to drink himself into oblivion—until Ellie comes … himself into oblivion—until Ellie comes along and sticks her nose in his business. While most people only tell him what he wants to hear, she calls life like she sees it. Her honesty is refreshing…kind of.
With his brother’s wedding around the corner, James’ family is worried about his broken heart and won’t let up about his new lifestyle. Their worry gives him an idea—pretending to date Ellie is just the cure he needs.
Wrapped in the (fake) safety of his arms, she opens up in a way she never has before. The more they’re together, the more she’s in danger of falling for him for real. And the more James realizes that just when he turned his back on love, it showed up again, whether he was ready for it or not.
Faking Bliss is a small town romance with heat, heart, and hilarity.
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This title was originally published as Carried Away and has been re-worked, re-edited, re-titled, and re-published.
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Faking Bliss is book 2 in the Moore Family series by Abby Brooks. This is a republished and expanded version of Carried Away. Read this before and loved it but this is even better!
After his engagement is called off James Moore has decided love isn’t for him so decided to drink himself to oblivion and not worry about the consequences. Family has tried to talk with him about his spiral downward but he want no parts of it..that is until Ellie Charles comes to his rescue and is totally honest with him. So he decides to ask Ellie to be in a fake relationship to get his family off his back and have a “friend” be his date for his brother’s wedding coming up soon.
Ellie Charles has had a crush on James for a long time and now watching him spiral out of control she wants to help but what he is asking…she is to honest to “fake” but goes along hoping for “real”.
What happens next is lots of heat, laughter, family, opening up and finding love when you least expect it!
Ellie and James are amazing together! I love how independent Ellie is and my heart breaks for her what she’s experienced. Seeing James in his downward spiral is so sad but I love how Ellie and her lack of filter bring him out of it. Books 2 in the Moore Family series is amazing! I can’t wait for the next one!
Loved this sweet but sexy story! Ellie has had a crush on James Moore since 8th grade – James is drowning his sorrows after his high school sweetheart cheated on him and broke off their engagement. Their fake relationship quickly becomes all too real as they find themselves falling for each other. As always, Abby Brooks writes realistic, likeable characters – I am looking forward to reading the next in this series.
I received an ARC of this book for an honest review.
The Moore Family is back. James had his heart broken in ways he wasn’t ready for. Ellie has always depended on herself for everything. When these two come together, it’s fireworks!
I absolutely adore James and Ellie. I connected with them in such a profound way that I couldn’t stop reading them. I put off everything I was doing, everything I had planned and I read this book in a single sitting. There was no life outside of James and Ellie.
Abby took these characters and brought them to life. Every single emotion and feeling you could have about them is right there, so tangible that you can feel it with every single turn of the page. James and Ellie captivated me and held me so tightly that I wasn’t ready to let them go when the book was all said and done.
I am really excited for the next installment of the Moore family! I cannot wait to see what happens when Harry meets his match!
Four stars for this fake relationship that takes you for the ride of your life as you watch it all unfold right in front of you.
I will be honest I didn’t remember how freaking hawt James was so was very happy when he was described to me! Your heart does break for him after everything he has been through but ugh the baboons he hangs out with annoy me at times and I just love Ellie but want to shake her and say “Girl you know are just asking for trouble making a pact with the delicious man!!!” But you know what I would jump at the chance to pretend to be his girlfriend too! This is a roller coast of feelings where you get annoyed with both James and Ellie as well as laugh and feel sorry for them and want to give them a big old hug. And then when Ellie is pulled into the Moore family and sees what a family is meant to be like, well you want to be right there with her.
I already knew I loved this series but re-reading them has made me fall further!! They are sweet perfection! Faking Bliss was the second book in Abby’s Moore Family series; it was originally called Carried Away. This was the book I remembered most out of the series, it was sweet and sexy, with a hint of suspense!
James was sinking in to a downward spiral after his fiancé left him. He was drinking, fighting and hanging out with the wrong crowd. His family was worried about what he would do at his brother’s upcoming wedding. To get them off his back, he enlisted Ellie to be his “fake” girlfriend. Only now, the lines between fake and real were getting blurred.
Since Ellie had a crush on James since they were kids, would being his “fake” girlfriend a good idea? Could she simply walk away when their time was up? Or would more be on the line to loose?
Abby’s books are always amazing! They are so beautiful and uplifting. Faking Bliss fit right in! I can’t wait to continue to re-read the series.
I wish I had the words to give this book the review it deserves. I’ll give it my best.
Abby Brooks has the ability to write characters that are so real you actually feel them. They aren’t perfect people. They are flawed and broken and human. James is horribly broken at the beginning of this book and I actually felt his pain. Seeing his changes and his healing as the book goes on, I found myself loving this character even more. As Ellie opens up, you realize her past is really affecting her present, as all of ours does. Watching them both fall in love made me remember my own journey to love. They are human characters with human problems and human loves. I can not wait for the next book in this series!
I absolutely loved reading Ellie and James’s story. He was a hot, muggy mess to begin with and he and Ellie were exactly what each other needed.
This story is even better than the first story in the series! Loved James and Ellie! I was completely hooked from beginning to end!
Finding the love of his life with another man has left James Moore drinking to excess and on the road to more harm than good. To keep his family off his back, James decides to embark on in a fake relationship with Ellie – the one woman who has had a crush on him forever. But when she starts to mean more to him than he realized will happiness be in their future? Or will the power of the bottle be more important to get him through his day? Another fabulous read in the Moore Family Series. With each addition in the series the family dynamic becomes the one thing the reader can understand and appreciate. Abby Brooks once again did not disappoint!!
Good book, good series!
I enjoyed Ellie & James fake relationship & so happy they figured it all out in the end!
Fantastic!! A little bit of bad boy and a little bit of angst give this sweet, sexy romance just a touch of sass. Perfect!
Ellie has had a crush on James for as long as she can remember. James just lost all his dreams when his ex shattered his heart. When James proposes a fake relationship, Ellie’s fairytale begins. But, is it real or not??
Loved these characters. So easy to relate to them both. The story is easy to read and pulls every emotion out of your heart. Totally worth five fabulous stars.
Abby Brooks just continues to get better and better in this series. Every book she writes you actually feel the emotions that the characters are going through. With each page I found myself relating on one level or another to either character and in some cases both. I laughed with them. Cheered for them, and even cried with them at one point. This story has all the emotions in it, and you find yourself rooting for both James and Ellie. Both a bit broken, but together they were able to love again, and to be whole again with each other. Ellie said it perfectly when she told James that he gave her hope again to love!! I am excited to read the next book in this series.
Absolutely amazing! We all have a little Ellie in us and James is just the right amount of naughty and nice. A story that shows love really can heal all.