Reviewer's Rating:
5
5.0Overall score
A E Rycart's books just keep getting better and better.
Faking It By A E Ryecart
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM
Tropes: Found family, fake relationship
Released: May 30, 200
Publisher: Self-Published
Series: Rent Boys, Book 2
Length: 270 pages
For Ben and Toby, faking it has never felt more real.
Dropped by his agency for walking out on a client, professional escort Ben Lassiter is thrown an unexpected lifeline: an assignment to be a boyfriend-for-hire for a family wedding. But there’s a catch. The man who wants him for the weekend is a man who makes Ben’s blood heat, his spine tingle, and his heart pound. A man Ben wants so much, but who doesn’t want him in return.
Toby Hawksmoore, a man Ben’s vowed to stay away from.
Ben and Toby circle each other as they tell themselves their relationship is strictly business. But the hard lines they’ve set and the rules they’ve made are starting to blur.
Escort and client is turning into something neither had bargained for.
*** Faking It is the second in the Rent Boys series but can be read as a stand alone. 71,000 words. HEA and no cliffhangers ***
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
A E Rycart’s books just keep getting better and better.
The first book in this series, Release, blew me away and I wasn’t sure that anything that this author wrote could equal it. I shouldn’t have worried. Faking It is a fabulous story about another rent boy falling for someone he shouldn’t. While this is book two and reads well as a standalone story, I think you will appreciate it more if you read book one first.
Ben has gotten himself off of the streets and now he’s a high-class rent boy, meeting clients in fancy hotels and restaurants as a paid escort who will provide “extras” for the right price. He doesn’t particularly like this line of work but he doesn’t feel like he’s capable of doing anything else.
Toby is a wealthy, pretty disagreeable man who is friends with the boyfriend of one of Ben’s housemates. Ben and Toby had a “moment” at Christmas but Toby ran off and left Ben embarrassed and upset.
Boy, this story is full of all kinds of feels. I was so sad for Toby; his family is awful (except his sister). Toby’s appalling treatment of Ben made me want to shake him. And Ben, he was devastated after what happened between him and Toby but he won’t let anyone see it.
When a book moves me to tears it’s a sure sign of how much I loved it; I shed more than a few reading Faking It. Toby and Ben go through a lot of rough things but A E Ryecart always gives her boys an HEA and the journey, no matter how difficult, is always worth it to get there.
This month marks the fourth anniversary of my discovery of A E Ryecart’s books and I’ve read and loved every single one published since then. I hope she continues writing for a very long time.
♥♥♥♥♥
O Factor: Scorcher
Available to borrow with Kindle Unlimited.
I USED TO TELL MY STORIES TO MYSELF, NOW I TELL THEM TO THE WORLD…
The stories I only ever told to myself took place in a world where it was boy meets boy, where best friends became more, where the hero didn’t save the damsel but the hot guy he’d been secretly crushing on.
I wanted to read those stories. I craved to read those stories. But those stories weren’t out there. Or that’s what I thought… Until one Christmas, when I unwrapped a shiny new e-reader. All it took was a few clicks, and my world changed forever.
I FOUND MY TRIBE.
But there is life outside of MM & gay romantic fiction in all its configurations. Allegedly.
When I’m forced to switch off the trusty, faithful word machine, there’s a husband to feed and talk to, pubs to drink in, and cake to eat. I love to do all those things and more, before I rush back to write all the words.
I’m a Londoner, born and bred, but I now live just outside of the big bad city, but close enough to hop on a train so I can get my regular metropolitan fix.
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