I liked the story, liked the characters, everything was good, but nothing standout. I don’t know if it’s the fact that it was slow at times, or I didn’t connect to the characters as much as I wanted to, but I didn’t love it.

Honestly, friends to lovers, fake dating, scholarly H/h, and all kinds of goodness! And while I did like it, it just felt a little… off. This book should have been perfect for me. Maybe if Sebastian starts showing her some attention she can get her perfect man’s attention. It’s been many seasons and Grace has lost hope of ever finding a husband, but her father becomes ill and insistent. Grace and Sebastian are friends and have been for some time. There aren’t scientific laws when it comes to the human heart.” “There’s no should when it comes to what we feel. Yet when he’s faced with losing her forever, Sebastian will do whatever it takes to tell her the truth, even if it means risking his own future―and his heart. Sebastian is in love with brilliant, beautiful Grace, but their bargain is complete, and she desires another. If only she hadn’t asked him to help her marry someone else… Between secret lessons on how to be a rogue and exaggerated public flirtations, Grace’s feelings for Sebastian grow from friendship into undeniable, inconvenient, real attraction. To further his own research on English society, Sebastian agrees to let Grace transform him from a bespectacled, bookish academic into a dashing―albeit fake―rake. Grace’s colleague, anthropologist Sebastian Holloway, is just the blank slate she requires. Her solution: to create the perfect man, to act as her suitor, and help her catch his eye. But when a handsome, celebrated naturalist returns from abroad, Grace wishes, for once, to be noticed. Lady Grace Wyatt is content as a wallflower, focusing on scientific pursuits rather than the complications of society matches. ‘This superbly entertaining, perfectly executed Regency-set love story is not only dazzlingly witty and intensely sexy it is also a sweetly crafted love letter about the power of learning, literature, and lifelong friendships.’ BookList on My Fake Rake

‘a jolt of electricity, a blast of fresh air ― everything delightful and exciting you could want it to be.’ New York Times Book Review on My Fake Rake

‘Charming, witty, and thoroughly adorable! You’ll fall in love with Grace and Sebastian… One of my favorite authors.

My fake rake