SloanWhat do you do when your best friend’s guy cheats on her?Help her get revenge, of course.Getting caught by his brother isn’t part of the plan. The brother’s price for not turning us into the cops? I pretend to be his girlfriend to help him close a business deal.I’d rather go to jail than play the part of Caleb Stanton’s latest conquest, but my friend has been through enough. CalebWhat do you … friend has been through enough.
Caleb
What do you do when your boss won’t sell you his store because he thinks you’re a flight risk?
Produce a girlfriend, of course.
Blackmail wasn’t normally my thing, but I’ve got less than twenty-four hours. I’d rather extort Sloan for a date or two than disappoint my boss.
We agree to a fake relationship in return for silence. We agree to act like we care about each other. We agree to five dates only.
But we don’t agree to what happens next.
And we certainly didn’t agree to falling in love.
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All too real, too fast and neither of them knows how to handle it
My Five Dates (A Love Like This Book 2) by R. L. Kenderson is sweet but contentious romance. Caleb and Sloane embark on their fake relationship journey feeling defensive and cornered. As their time together increases, these wonderful characters find that they do have things in common and actually like one another.
This fake relationship plot has a single purpose at the beginning and all is going well until real feelings factor in. Sloane and Caleb’s failure to communicate about their feelings for one another becomes the true antagonist and brings an abrupt end when that is really what neither of them wants.
Overall, Sloane and Caleb love one another and our handsome and sexy Caleb finally realizes what has been glaringly obvious all along. I adore the HEA! Super cute, happiness all around and lots of love too.
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Once again, you simply cannot go wrong with a R.L. read!! Great characters, excellent plot, happy ending! And can we talk about the humor!? I always end up laughing so hard! Sloan and Caleb were great and their chemistry was adorable and steamy. Adored this book, the whole series is going to be incredible!
I loved Caleb and Sloans story so much! Sloans best friend is dating Caleb’s brother. When they find out his brother has been cheating Sloan goes with her best friend to mess with his car. After Caleb overhears them talking about what they did he uses the opportunity to blackmail Sloan into dating him so he can show his boss that he’s settled and not going anywhere. It quickly turns into more then pretend for them both. The storyline was great. It had all the feels. Along with being funny. With a little angst thrown in. I definitely recommend this book!
An amazing well written enemies to lovers romance. This engaging storyline was full of emotions of laughter, blackmail, denial, and a unique twist. The characters are interesting, well developed and have good chemistry. I voluntarily read and reviewed this addicting incredible ARC.
I liked this story a lot. It was entertaining and enjoyable with plenty of steam. The characters were interesting and likable for the most part. There are plenty of feels. I did quite a bit of laughing. Caleb and Sloan were a real kick. I loved their happy ever after and I recommend reading this book.
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Sloan wants to help her friend make her cheating boyfriend pay. So they come up with a plan and almost get away with it until his brother hears them talking about what they did. Caleb needs a woman to get what he needs the business he works at. He blackmails Sloan into helping him and soon things go from fake to very real. The more time Sloan spends with Caleb she sees that he is nothing like his cheating brother. Will their fake relationship become something real? Will his boss find out about what their doing?
This is a great story that will draw you in from the first chapter and then leave you wanting more with the last one. This is a well written and very entertaining story. I would recommend this book to any book lover.
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Yes we have Sloan and Caleb and yes they are enemies and do not think very highly of the other. Sloan and her friend get caught and are in a sticky situation, Caleb is desperate for a girlfriend to convince his boss he is not going anywhere. So he does what any normal guy would do he blackmails Sloan. Sloan would rather go to jail but it doing it to protect her friend. This book was a hoot and I was hooked from the beginning. It had such a unique twist I just had to know more. The interaction between Sloan and Caleb was amazing and such a rollercoaster ride. Great characters with a wonderful story.
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I received an ARC from the author thru Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving my review. Sloan is the best of friends. Because of that, she is going to let herself be blackmailed because Caleb has an idiot brother. Caleb is focused on one goal. If he has to resort to blackmailing five dates out of Sloan, then so be it. Neither expected how it would all turn out. This book is about enemies who go from a fake relationship to lovers and more. It is well written with great characters. I am looking forward to reading more from this series
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Sloane and Caleb come together for a purpose but end up in love, however since both are fighting the intense chemistry between them they banter a lot, this gives some really funny laugh out loud and steaming moments. The storyline is very well written and just flows beautifully. I loved this story.
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R.L. Kenderson are new authors for me! Being it is 2 authors who are collaborating together! But hello this story is one of the fake relationship stories I have read so far this year. If this is any indication of what is to come out from these authors I am all in! Oh this had me in stitches throughout! I enjoyed the play between these two characters Sloan and Caleb. You could tell that they were attracted to each other from the get go! So why not throw in some blackmail or maybe get to feel the chemistry between these two. This was a fantastic read and made me slam my head a bit throughout but it was an enjoyable read. What I did not understand though was why Caleb did not put forth more of a backbone towards his boss in the first place. Why did he let Sloan go after he knew he was madly in love with her!?! it was a great read!
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Very good characters
4.5
It’s a great story that has a simple basis with a fake relationship, but it’s the great characters that carry the story: whether it’s the way they end up making their deal, their exchanges, their relationship.
It’s tender, hot, predictable at times, but it’s always exciting and touching.
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This is book two in the Love Like That series. It’s a fake relationship romance. It hot, funny, steamy, and downright entertaining. I loved Caleb and Sloan; they have this great love/hate relationship. They both enjoy teasing each other but there’s also underlying attraction to each other. If you’ve read the first book then you’ve met Sloan. She’s Travis’ older sister. You don’t have to read the first book to enjoy this one, it reads as a standalone.
Sloan helps her best friend Melanie vandalize her boyfriend Neil’s precious car to get back at him for cheating on Melanie. Unfortunately, Neil’s brother Caleb overheard and decides to use it to this advantage. Caleb needs a fake girlfriend to get his boss to agree to a deal. He decides that Sloane can help him in exchange for his silence. They agree to five dates. The more they’re around each other the more feelings get involved. What do you do when fake starts to feel real?
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So My Five Dates is a great love story. What I love about this story is that you do get a story with some hot scenarios as well. So we have Caleb who is wanting to own the store he has worked at for half is life. Only he tells one little white lie which just trickles from there. However, he is a free spirit, gorgeous and funny. Then we meet Sloan, she is down to earth, the ride or die kind of friend and can have poor choices in men. Now these two seem to start off as enemies. Sloan is in realty and to me like a really laid back person. So when Caleb catches her in a predicament he uses it to blackmail her. Well, this could go either way. It could work out and they fall madly deeply in love or it could blow up. Let me tell you that R. L Kenderson always keeps me guessing and wanting to know more. I laughed and giggled a lot and loved the story line. This is a great book to read or add to your TBR list.
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Blackmail check
Revenge check
Big old Lie Check
Steamy hot laughter filled Romance check.
Sloan it was real simple get revenge for my bestfriend after her slimy boyfriend cheats on her then leaves her with a very unpleasant present supper jerk but that was later Niel really new how to give my friend grief so we decided to ruin his prized posession. And then his brother Caleb caught me now hes got me pretending to be his girlfriend with 5 dates attached and then theres the fake Spoiler: engagement and um a trip that kinda ended in marriage wait what did I get myself into.
Caleb is in a bind he wants to purchase his bosses business but his boss may go with someone else until Caleb tells him he has a girlfriend then everything goes crazy pretty soon im engaged and married. Then it blows up the truth comes out and Sloan and I have broke up. But then I relize i want my wife back.
Truly fun read but Sloan and Caleb are crazy funny they just need to communicate sex only gets you so far and as for Caleb’s boss man he needs a reality check you can’t tell someone who to see and Caleb should have stood up for Sloan more my only issue. Still enjoyed this book.
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Caleb and Sloan will have you laughing all the way through this story with their antics. After playing a prank on Caleb’s brother, he blackmails Sloan into dating him. As this story unfolds you can feel the emotions coming off these two as their relationship develops into so much more. In the end you will be cheering Caleb and Sloan on to make it to a happily ever after.
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I read this twice to make sure I got it right. The last few chapters had me a bit confused. Ted and Mary were manipulative, heavy handed, and interfering and needed to be shut down long ago and shown the boundaries of common decency. Sloan was beyond immature and selfish for most of the story. and I didn’t like her or Mel. Grow up girls!!! Sloan liked to blame everything on Caleb and took full advantage of his money- ie: ring, house, trip to Hawaii. She acted like it was all a lark and a free ride. She never seemed penitent for the tricks she pulled on Caleb, and all her lies made me furious. She lacked morals and a conscience.