Blog Tour Stop: Kerry Winfrey's FAKING CHRISTMAS.

Hi and welcome to my blog tour stop for Kerry Winfrey's Faking Christmas!  A big thanks to the publisher & Netgalley for the complimentary e-ARC. All opinions provided are my own.

​Summary. 

Laurel Grant works as the social media manager for Buckeye State of Mind, an Ohio tourism magazine and website. She most definitely does not run a farm . . . but one tiny misunderstanding leads her boss, Gilbert, to think she owns her twin sister Holly’s farm just outside of Columbus. Laurel only handles the social media for the farm, but she’s happy to keep her little white lie going if it means not getting fired—she cannot be jobless again.

And keep it going she must when Gilbert, recently dumped by his wife, invites himself over for the farm’s big Christmas Eve Eve dinner (as advertised on Meadow Rise Farm’s Instagram, thanks to Laurel herself). Laurel immediately goes into panic mode to figure out how she can trick Gilbert into thinking she’s basically the Martha Stewart of rural Ohio and keep her job in the process.
Laurel and Holly come up with the perfect plan—all Laurel has to do is pretend to own the farm for one dinner. But Laurel shows up at the farm to find an unwelcome guest is waiting: Max Beckett, her nemesis since Holly’s wedding. The annoyingly attractive man she hates will be posing as Laurel’s husband just for the evening, but when a snowstorm traps them all for the entire weekend, Laurel is going to have to figure out how to survive with her job and dignity intact. Whatever the case, this promises to be the most eventful Christmas in ages. . .

[ID: Jess’s white hand holds the ebook in front of a red-orange sunflower.]

​My review. 

If I were in a deception plot romance I would crumble into dust the minute anyone tried to test my fake relationship but Laurel Grant…Laurel is pulling off the sweet-hearted scam of the year by convincing her boss that she is married, has two kids, & lives the farm life she acts like she does in the column she writes at the magazine they both produce.

She’s pulling off this scam at Christmas & with the help of her beloved twin, her brother-in-law, & her nemesis, Max Beckett, the man she’s hated since her sister’s wedding.

That means this fake scam is pretty low-angst, friends—sure, the boss might be an issue, but Laurel has the loving support of her family as she stumbles her way through acting married & parental etc .

A fake marriage, a snowy setting, some  revelations, two enemies who end up looking up at Christmas tree branches from below…

Faking Christmas by Kerry Winfrey is charming & sweet & I could totally envision it on a screen somewhere, making people feel those holiday + let’s fall in love vibes.

Also those let’s-respect-people’s-unique-interest vibes. I adore what this book says about not denigrating people’s joys—whether it be animal communicators, romance novels, Lego, whatevs…just let the people be happy .

I wish I could have *felt* this opposites attract romance a bit more—it isn’t  effortless for me to see that at the end, & that’s what I want—but I did appreciate that their relationship isn’t super hasty at moving to any *big* declarations & Max’s assertion that Laurel is *enough,* is everything & more, is lovely.

3.5⭐️. Out 09/26.

CWs: Max had a toxic childhood & doesn’t have a positive relationship with them in the present.

Are you in the holiday romance mode yet? Thanks for stopping by!

Happy reading!