The Fake Wedding Project is a cozy rom com mystery with fun twists. I loved the Christmas town, rivaling families (Romeo & Juliette), and fake relationship tropes in addition to all the Hallmarky vibes throughout. Pippa knows how to grab you from the first page and keep you turning pages. Dane and Amanda earned their lovely HEA considering the mess those families created over time. The angst and steam were light which served the story well. The familial characters, community, and the laziest dog around, were all colorful additions. If you're in the mood for a lighthearted, humorous, and charming read, I highly recommend this story.

Looking for a fast-paced, enemies-to-lovers, steamy romance novel with a Christmas theme? The Fake Wedding Project features star-crossed enemies who get caught up in a fake romance with real consequences. Think Romeo & Juliet meets a sweet Hallmark Christmas movie and load it with hot spice!

While no one really knows why the Andersons and the Silvers hate each other, it’s a feud that’s lasted generations. Maybe faking a relationship can finally end the madness once and for all? If only, Amanda and Dane could remind their hearts it’s just make-believe.

These two go were meant to be, like peanut butter & jelly, ham & cheese, Christmas trees & tinsel. It’s undeniable and their banter was so cute! PLUS there’s an adorable (lazy) dog named Chili. Kinda cheesy, but ultimately adorable. That’s this story.

Thank you to NetGalley and Montlake for the opportunity to read this digital ARC. All opinions expressed are my own.

A fake engagement between two families at war, in a small town. Will Dane and Amanda succeed in joining the two families and brin peace to their little town of Tinsel?

The plot was a bit predictable, but it was an enjoyable read nonetheless.

Special mention to Chili, the best, laziest dog out there.

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for the opportunity to read this book.

This was a cute, fake- engaged trope book.
Amanda and Dane agree to fake date with the hope of finally, bringing about an end to a family feud that has lasted for way to long. No one even knows what the beef is about. Or is there actually someone that does?
Amanda and Lorelei (from the feuding family) have been secret friends for years. When Amanda tries to get out of being the next in line of their family's gingerbread bakery she blurts out that she and Dane (Lorelei's brother ) are engaged.
She convinces Dane to go along with her plan, and he hopes it'll bring an end to the feud.
What she doesn't know , is that Dane had a secret crush on her long ago.
As they try to trick their family and the lovely town /community, their attraction grows.
This was really sweet and cute with some spice thrown in.

Chilli the dog's POV was great, I really loved that at the end!

Thanks to Netgalley, author and publisher for the opportunity to read and share my thoughts on this book.

Loved this!
Oh moly! The Fake Wedding Project was such. fun ride that I didn’t want it to end. I absolutely loved Amanda, Dane , Chlii and the rest of the Tensil town residents!

Such a fun backstory (Romeo and Juliet meets hallmark Christmas movie) and cast of characters. Loved the tropes, it was laugh out loud funny, a great cover with beautiful artwork, and another wonderful story written by Pippa Grant! Thank you for letting me read an advanced copy. I was smiling, giggling, kicking my feet, and smiling while reading this book. Absolutely loved the book and am very excited for its release. Have already posted about how much I enjoyed reading this on threads and look forward to leaving a review on release day. It was an absolute pleasure to get to read this prior to release.

Sweet HEA with a little small town mystery built in along the way. This is set in a quirky little town that Pippa Grant writes so well, with the main characters from warring families. How do they pull off a fake wedding to heal old wounds without falling for each other? Find out by picking up this sweet (and steamy) romance!

**Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC**

This book is a modern Christmas version of fake-Romeo and Juliet and to my surprise, it worked! It was fun and the fake relationship had a purpose to help end the feud between the families of our main characters. I loved the development of the characters and their relationship, and I especially loved the fact that Chili (the dog) had his own lil epilogue! It was really cute and I had a lot of fun reading this!

Such a great read! Highly recommend this one.

Many thanks to the author, the publisher, and Netgalley for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing an eARC of this book, what follows is my objective opinion. Best friend's brother romance with a fake fiancé twist and a bit of a small-town mystery. Amanda and Dane, families in a multi-generational small-town feud of unknown origin. Both moved away as adults but are back in town briefly when a panicked Amanda announces a fake engagement to her grandmother to avoid inheriting the family bakery. Dane agrees because he wants to end the feud once and for all. The expected hijinks and tension follow, with both Amanda and Dane coming to realize how much they genuinely like each other as they make their way to a romantic HEA. You don't read a Pippa Grant story for its originality, you read it for the reliable humor and heart (and also for the lovable animal that's usually thrown in). This book delivers on those promises. Amanda and Dane are sweet together, and their growing attraction (while predictable) is heartwarming. There's also a nice depth in exploring the effects of the family feud on interpersonal dynamics. There are dual 1st-person POV, which I always appreciate. Publishes 10-8-24

I didn't know much about this book going in, but if Pippa writes it then I'm going to read it. The story follows Amanda and Dane from the smalltown of Tinsel where it's always Christmas and their families have been feuding for decades. One thing leads to another and we end up with a fake engagement and two MC's who are just fed up with how their families have been acting towards each other. Plus an adorable and lazy dog named Chili. The book 100% gives Hallmark Christmas but add a dash of spice.

I love Pippa but this book just didn't land for me. The book seemed to center more around the feuding than the couple. Everything takes place during one week which obviously makes things feel rushed. There's a little bit of mystery as they try to figure out what started the feud but even that felt a little unsolved at times. Honestly, with the way their family members acted towards them, I would've just left town and never came back. The book is a slow burn, and only features I think two spicy scenes. While there was your typical Grant humor, it just didn't hit her normal level for me. I think it's just the difference between a self published book and one being put out by a publisher. I notice this with a few other authors as well. It's not a bad thing, as I'm sure it gets new/different readers.

If you're looking for a fun little Christmas in July style book, then I'd give this one a chance. If you're like me, and a lover of all things Pippa, this might miss the mark for you. It was still entertaining, I just wish we had more of the couple and less of the feud.

The Fake Wedding Project is a cute and sweet fake relationship romance with just the right amount of steam and family drama.

The idea that Amanda and Dane thought they could end a family feud by pretending to be engaged was so entertaining to me. Amanda and Dane were so cute together and had wonderful chemistry. You just knew their fake relationship would bring on real feelings, and I loved watching them navigate their way through everything the town and their families through at them.

If you're looking for a sweet, hallmark-style, small-town romance that's holiday themed, with just the right amount of spice, you won't want to miss this entertaining read.

Thank you so much NetGalley and Publisher for this ARC! I have been reading numerous books from this author from the beginning of her career. I’ve loved all her stories and all her wonderful characters and her new book did not disappoint me at all. I fell in love with both characters, Amanda, and Dean and I really enjoyed the hallmark type feeling. I got while reading the story. It was a cozy warm, wonderful romance with two rival families that suddenly come together to plan a wedding!! The families don’t know that the wedding will not happen because the engagement was fake, but is it really? I really enjoyed the character development in this story. I fell for these people from the first page to the last it was such a heartwarming story of live and family and overcoming obstacles!! I highly recommend this book and the author!!

Amanda and Dane were so much fun to read. This was such a funtastic story all the feels romsnce and laugh out loud fun. I loved all the characters and the town. Loved it.

Read if you like: fake dating/engagement, high school crush, small town, family rivals, best friends brother, forbidden romance, he falls first, dramatic families, romcom, close proximity

This was the sweetest, and most light hearted romcom with the perfect Christmas vibes 🎄 I WANT TO LIVE THERE!! An all year round winter wonderland sounds incredible 🤩

Amanda is bubbly, a yapper, unpredictable, and accidentally tells her family she’s engaged to Dane.
Dane is her best friend’s big brother, who had the biggest crush on her in high school. I loved him 🥰 It’s so typical to see the big brother as a jock/the super alpha guy. Instead he was the bashful mathlete and in the school’s band 🥹

Both are tired of dealing with the shame of their families silly rivalry and decide to team up and get fake engaged. I absolutely loved them together 💕 I loved all the side characters, the character growth, the pining and lazy Chili 🐾

I highly recommend and will 100% be rereading this around Christmas time 🎄💫

Pippa Grant is bringing the laughter, slow heat and intrigue with The Fake Wedding Project.

This book is a complete stand alone from all of her other books- and while this story does take place outside of the Pippaverse it is still filled with all the silly charm and characters that you'd expect to find in a tiny Christmas obsessed town called Tinsel created by the masterful mind of Pippa Grant.

Dane and Amanda are both back in their tiny hometown of Tinsel- when in an attempt to get out of inheriting a bakery she had no interest in taking over Amanda reveals that she is secretly engaged to Dane Silver. News of their engagement shouldn't have been such a big deal to the town except the Silver and Anderson families have a long standing family feud going back so many generations that no one even seems to remember what the cause of the feud was. Dane is tired of the feud and only having his achievements in life appreciated when it bests the Anderson family- so he agrees to continue the fake engagement in hopes that the families will finally lay their differences aside despite his brain warning him that he's just going to reignite his high school crush on Amanda. And well you'll just have to see how that works out for him.

I'll admit that Amanda and Dane's crazy fake engagement story was a bit of a slow start for me. Dane Silver is supposed to come off in a grumpy way when really he's just a more quiet and reserved kind of guy until he's comfortable, while Amanda Anderson is often loud and talks without thinking. Both characters are really sweet and I really enjoyed how easily they seemed to connect and understand each other. And is it a Pippa Grant rom-com if there isn't an adorable furry friend that can make a scene just by existing in it? And as the story continued I did find myself much more invested in uncovering the start of the feud, figuring out who was sending Amanda and Dane clues and why.

I started this book thinking I would read a couple chapters before going to bed only to find myself turning the final page and seeing that it was almost 3 am. My heart was full of disappointment at how some of their family was reacting to the engagement- but then beaming with pride at the stand the younger generation was taking in wanting to let the past go and stop hating someone just because of their last name. Just goes to show that just because someone shares your blood- you don't have to agree or accept their toxic outlook or keep them in your life. And the way that Dane and Amanda both stuck up for each other, building each other up, accepting but also encouraging each others dreams had me feeling like I was in a soft puff of sweetness. I loved the slow simmer of tension that brewed between Dane and Amanda. Sure if we look at the book logistically, this all happened over the course of a little over a week, which isn't actually long at all- but so much takes place and the feelings grow so naturally that it also felt like it took FOREVER!

The Fake Wedding Project is overall an entertaining and fabulous rom-com that has that Pippa spin that only one of my favorite rom-com queens can manage to pull off!

Thanks to netgalley and publisher for this arc. It had my all time fave trope of fake dating and their spice chemistry was great but I hateddddd everything else, the plot was ridiculous, their families and the whole feud was beyond annoying. I expected way more fun fake dating and instead god dumb af family drama nonsense. A major miss for me sadly and I almost dnfed so many times.

✅dual pov
✅fake fiancés
✅family drama
✅Romeo Juliet
✅spice

I love the idea of the family rivalry taking place in a Christmas-themed town. It makes the book feel so cozy and warm in a Holiday way even though it is set in August. It gives big Christmas-in-July vibes. You can’t go wrong with the fake engagement trope and it’s nice that this one is laced in with a little bit of a high school crush trope too. The small mystery of finding out about how their family rivalry started is a fun add-on. The reason for their feud is a unique one to me. It reminds me a bit of that episode of Bones if anyone knows what I’m talking about. Chili is such a cute dog and I like the idea that Amanda becomes a dog-walker without knowing that Dane has always had a dog. It makes them feel like destiny. The pacing is a little slow for me and I didn’t find some of the scenes very exciting, but the book is still enjoyable with lots of cute moments.

Amanda and Dane's story was fab-u-lous!

Wonderful characters, a great plot and great world building, more than a few laughs, a fabulous pet... this was just an awesome read! It was like a new and improved Hallmark Christmas movie with both more steam and more laughs.

I loved this book and definitely recommend it!

I’m definitely reading more by this author as well, i laughed and smiled so much through this book. Dane and Amanda decide to tempt fate by faking an engagement, to end a family fued. One of my favorite tropes. The spice was 🔥🔥🔥. Top tier romance, comedy, dogs included nothing could get better and with a winter town called tinsel! Amazing!