Book Review: My Fake Billionaire Boyfriend

Title: My Fake Billionaire Boyfriend

Author: Gigi Sloan

Date: 2023

ISBN: 978-1-961595-00-2

Publisher: Gigi Sloan

Quote: "She's really sick, and she does this sometimes, completely forgetting that we broke up."

That's how Jasper, that dirty rat, breaks the news to Diane that he'd rather be seen with Ashley. Diane is a hardworking cafe owner who pins her hair up in a bun. Ashley is an "incredible brunette"...

Can we talk? An incredible brunette is someone who, whether from ignorance or because she was identified to the police is a redhead, dyes her hair flat black. That, or maybe a white-haired older woman who's dyed her hair flat black. Nobody believes the black hair. If Diane means a good-looking brunette, she should say so. Though actually "dark-haired woman" is nicer than "brunette."

Misplaced modifiers are also the problem with the fake billionaire boyfriend. A fake billionaire boyfriend should be a boy who became a boyfriend because a girl thought he was a billionaire. Maybe he lied, and she told him to go away. Maybe it was only a mistake, and she decided she liked him anyway. This is not a novel about a fake billionaire boyfriend. This is a novel about a much trendier billionaire fake boyfriend.

Anyway, Jasper thinks he's now qualified to be seen with Ashley because he's just taken a new job working for Van Rensselaer Technologies. The next day, who should come into the cafe, where his favorite order has been picked up daily by an employee, but Van Rensselaer himself. Diane sees him as "Mr. Handsome." He's attracted to Diane, too, even though she starts crying about the break-up in front of the few customers who are in the cafe. It just happens that his grandfather wants to see evidence that his heir is not commitment-phobic. In less than an hour Isaiah Van Rensselaer has hired Diane as a fake girlfriend.

Everyone who has been dumped should only get to walk into a party where the dumper is present, on the arm of the dumper's new boss, so readers will probably forgive the unlikely pace as well as the misplaced modifiers for the sake of the fantasy. You know what's ahead, but you'll probably enjoy getting there after a start like that.