Marti McBride isn’t looking for a man. Not now. Not ever.As New York City’s resident Queen of Single and author of a popular singles column, her solo-status isn’t just a lifestyle choice. It’s everything.Until she discovers her ratings are slipping and she needs to make a change. Turns out, people aren’t so enamored with her flying solo anymore.But her boss has the perfect solution: fall in love … the perfect solution: fall in love – or at least pretend to – and real her readers back in.
So when Logan Love saunters into her life and asks her out, she says yes. Even if he’s the most arrogant human being she’s ever met.
He needs publicity. She needs a fake boyfriend.
What could possibly go wrong?
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I purchased this book despite the fact it is part of Kindle Unlimited and have already pre-ordered the next book in the series.
Afraid To Fall is an amazing read. I found myself laughing throughout the book because of the bickering between Marti and Logan. Marti is happy to be single and really doesn’t have any plans on settling down until her boss forces her to find a boyfriend to reignite interest in her column. Logan and Marti meet as she has just escaped from a boring date, she’s sitting at the bar, when Logan starts bickering/talking to her. She writes about him in her next column, which is about being single and little does she know her life is about to change. She doesn’t want her life to change and she fights him every step of the way.
Logan is flat out a dreamy, sighworthy, perfect book boyfriend. When he tells her he will make her fall for him, I silently screamed inside my head and I couldn’t stop smiling. It was so interesting and fun watching him break through all of her walls. Watching Marti change as a person was a privilege.
I loved the supporting characters and can’t wait to read the next book in the series. I love Tia Souders writing style and own several of her books.
This is a clean read.
This story has me completely riveted in the very best of ways. I loved every second, the chemistry, the banter, the easy way you just fell right into their story alongside them. Delightfully snarky and funny as well as wonderfully sexy with some surprises in store for us. Rhonda Cusumano does a wonderful job portraying & bringing the characters to life.
I had a difficult time finding this on Goodreads. You see, Afraid to Fall has an alternate title of Meeting His Match, which is the name of the book that I read. OK, this was actually a rather refreshing story. The dialogue was snarky, funny, quick, and sincere. The characters were realistic and acted like normal people. Both of them carry a lot of baggage around with them, but they definitely understood one another. Logan got it quicker than Marti, but she finally figured it out.
Meeting His Match, or Afraid to Fall, is an entertaining read. It’s clean and will hold your interest. The characters are lively and engaging in this fast-paced story. I even wanted more at the end, I just wasn’t ready to say good-bye to these two.
This was a fun, enjoyable read. Full of laugh-out-loud moments that will make you swoon!
Marti, the Queen of Single in New York, doesn’t believe in love, marriage or men. But when her boss tells her that she needs to find a boyfriend because her ratings in the newspaper are falling she accepts Logan’s pact. He offers her a fake relationship to bring his foundation Hidden Heartbeat to national level and help more women. Can they fake a relationship without falling in love? CAn Logan show Martí that love is worth trying? A sweet and funny love story.
Snort-laughingly funny. The kind of book that makes you spit out your coffee from laughing. I loved it.
-‘She’d find some other poor schmuck to date for her column, then dump them once she boosted her ratings again.’-
These two were like oil and water. They fought like cars and dogs. She was a staunch feminist, bound and determined to stay single. She stubbornly insists she doesn’t need a man to make her happy. He has recently left an unhappy relationship and is attracted to Marti but he could never be in a relationship with someone like her, someone so closed off to men. He loves to rile her up, though.
-‘“That was just me fighting off my aversion to you.”
“Your attraction, you mean.” Logan winked. “It’s cool. I can see how you might confuse the two.”’-
The two need each other: Marti needs Logan to fake a relationship for the media and to keep her job, Logan needs Marti’s fame to increase donations to his nonprofit. But will they get through the next couple of months without killing each other?
-‘“You’ve just confirmed to me every preconceived notion I had of you.”
Marti narrowed her eyes. Her mouth pressed into a flat line. “Which is?”
“You’re uncomfortable sharing anything intimate about yourself with anyone, especially a guy. Anything involving feelings and putting yourself out there freaks you out. I just spilled my guts to you, and you tell me about a goldfish?”’-
-‘“We all have a past, Marti. And, yeah, it changes us. If anyone knows that, it’s me.”’-
4.5 stars