Fake engaged to my best friend's brother? Yes please. Fake engaged to my "secret" hometown best friend's brother? Absolutely. Him agreeing to it to stop the century long feud between both your families? Most definitely.

This was a very cute slow burnish Romeo and Juliete remake that takes place in a year round Christmas town.. but it's summer and during a heat wave. I say slow burnish because even though they kiss nothing really happens until about 63% into the book.

I truly enjoyed getting to know Dane, Amanda and the rest of the crew. The youngest generation was tired of the feud. The town was tired of the feud. It says a lot that when the truth comes out no one is really upset. But Amanda and Dane? Witnessing them fall in love was fun. Dane definitely wasn't boring. Amanda was great at acting like she wasn't affected. And Chili stole the show. It's never a dull moment in a Pippa Grant story. I love it.

*I voluntarily read an advanced copy of this book for my honest and unbiased review*

This was a such a fun read, but with a surprising amount of emotional depth and angst.

The family feud needs resolved and Amanda and Dane decide it's time they do that and uncover the reason behind the fued. While all this is baking, in Tinsel town, Amanda and Dane start learning about each other and fall in love.

Such a Hallmark book, lovely emotions, a bunch of nice supportive characters and a bunch of supportive characters you just want to throttle.

Loved it!

I loved this book! Pippa Grant writes stories that make me laugh out loud, think, cry, and want more. This one was no different.
Dane and Amanda decide to fake being engaged to try to end a family feud that has gone on for generations. And no one even remembers why!
I loved the way the whole town comes together to help. The town itself is a Christmas card all year round. Even though the story takes place in the summer, it could be a Hallmark Christmas movie!

A holiday-like romance with a Romeo and Juliet feel except where everyone lives and there is a lot of fruitcake. 

In the best Pippaest like way, The Best Wedding Project, is full of hilarious moments, family you love and family you grow to love, and the cutest couple at the center of fib that grows bigger day by day, but I was rooting super hard for by the end.

Dane Silver and Amanda Anderson jump into a fake fiancée/fiancé relationship with the best of intentions, basically it's to sew a generations long tiff between their families- along with other things, but those intentions fall by the wayside the longer Dane and Amanada spend together as their feelings grow. I mean when does the lie begin to turn into the truth, but no matter what they feel, it can't work...can it?  

It was super cute how these two continued to dig a deeper hole as their fib got bigger and bigger. Neither Dane nor Amanda ever planned to fall for each other, or really planned to get entrenched within the town of Tinsel, but it's hard to unwrap one from the other, but watching them fall, while the lie grew was just too much fun. 

The entire town is Christmas themed and how Pippa kept coming up with street names, buisness names, and basically everything was also a fun touch to the story.

This book is genius level hilarious, “…I thought, what would Amanda do, and since I am Amanda, I decided the best thing to do…” I couldn’t get enough of Amanda’s inner and outer monologue and omg Chili is a scene stealer!

This book had me laughing and loving all the crazy cooky-ness of this small town! Amanda and Dane are trying to save their small town from ruin at the hands of their own families. They have to much to accomplish is a week and decide it’s best if they do it together. They come up with one crazy plan but crazy is exactly what’s needed to fix and set everything right again!

The angst is high and the steam isn’t super heavy in this book but the emotional level runs deep! Dane and Amanda take time to get to know each other and I enjoyed their little moments. When the steam did pick up, it was glorious and written to perfection!

Hilarious and beautiful, at once! Pippa Grant writes romcoms for romcom lovers! I know I'm always gonna laugh and grin when I pick up one of her books and this one was no exception! Another great one

This a cute twist on Romeo and Juliet. Dane and Amanda are determined to change how their families treat each other and they come up with a way they think will work. Who would have thought that their idea might become a painful thought to execute in the end? Their plan might have a better ending than they had planned on. I was given an ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This story lives up to its synopsis with Romeo and Juliet meets Hallmark with a little bit of steam. The characters were likable and the plot was cozy good! Amanda and Dane were easy to love and made me smile watching them fall in love.

I usually like Pippa Grant novels. They usually have a good mixture of story, spice, and humor. This one was not the case for me. This book is about two rivaling families. The FMC and MMC fake a relationship to get the rivals to end. This is also a holiday romance, so it has hints of holiday themes in there. I didn't really have any sense of a true connection between the two main characters. This story became more about the families and the rivalry. I wasn't invested or rooting for them. The usual humor and spice was also not really present. The last chapter was just weird. There was minimal spice. Two scenes that end quickly. Overall, I just feel like the execution wasn't there for me with this one.

The fake wedding project's a cozy ,fast romcom with hallmark movies vibes and it's about a fake engagement between the members of 2 feuding families in a small town that celebrates Christmas everyday!

Some parts of the plot could have been developed better,some things were very predictable in my opinion but in the end as I said before it was a very fast read and good for the xmas and cozy vibes!

Thank you NetGalley and Montlake for ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review

I’m a big fan of Pippa Grant and this newest book does not disappoint.

Dane and Amanda are a classic “sibling’s brother” story with a twist. He’s her best friend’s brother and her quick mouth and desire to get out of a situation with her family end them up fake engaged, despite not seeing each other since high school (more than a decade ago).

They use the ruse to combat their families’ generations long hatred of each other in a less mortal Romeo and Juliet scenario. Working to uncover the original cause of the rift between their families they get to know each other as adults and the sparks fly.

December would be a more appropriate time to read this story based in a town where it’s Christmas all year round, but there’s never a bad time to fall in love with the town of Tinsel and the characters in this book!

Welcome to the town of Tinsel, where it is Christmas all year round. The only thing marring this idyllic situation is the Hatfield and McCoy rivalry between the Silver and Anderson families. A fued that has gone on for so long, that no one really remembers what started the fight generations ago.
Amanda can't bake, but is being told that she's inheriting the Gingerbread store. To try to be disinherited, she says she's engaged to Dane Silver.
Dane, who is sick of the rivalry agrees to play along. Maybe they can n end the feud, as was find out it's
origin. It doesn't hurt that he secretly had a crush on Amanda in high school.
These wedding plans become a game of chicken between the intended and the grandparents.
There are feelings and emotions galore flying. There is the laziest dog for a bit of comic relief. There is a slow burn that heats you up.
Overall an enjoyable, satisfying book.
Thank you to Net Galley for the advanced copy.

Title: The Fake Wedding Project

Author: Pippa Grant

Rating: ★★★★

Returning home for a short visit, faking an engagement to Dane’s secret high school crush, Amanda Anderson, was definitely not on his to-do list.

But when Amanda announces that she’s Dane’s fiancée, he decides to play along with the charade. Why, you ask? Because the Andersons and Silvers of Tinsel, Michigan, are like the Capulets and Montagues—locked in a ridiculous feud. By pretending to be Romeo and Juliet, they might just bring peace to our Christmas-themed hometown.

Amanda, a professional dog walker, and Dane, an engineer with a love for dogs, have to show their families what they all have in common. Easy, right? But with the town's infernal holiday cheer and the heat of their fake wedding plans, Amanda and Dane can’t seem to keep their hearts out of it.

This book is a funny and cute holiday read that warmed by heart and tickled my funny bone!. Pippa Grant masterfully blends humour, romance, and a touch of festive magic, making you root for Amanda and her charming engineer every step of the way.

The chemistry between the characters is electrifying, and their journey from fake to possibly real love is filled with laughter, warmth, and Christmas spirit. A great Christmas read and a great Romeo and Juliet retelling.

"The Fake Wedding Project" is perfect for fans of holiday romcoms, charming small towns, and a good fake relationship trope. It's a joyous read that left me smiling long after you turn the last page.


Thank you to The Publisher Montlake, the author Pippa Grant & Netgalley for an advanced reader copy (ARC) in exchange for my honest review.

Sinopsis en español:

Fingir un compromiso con mi enamorado secreto de la escuela secundaria no estaba en mi lista de tareas pendientes cuando aterricé para una breve visita a casa. Pero cuando Amanda Anderson anuncia que es mi prometida, doy un salto y juego con la farsa. ¿Por qué? Porque los Capulets y Montagues no tienen nada sobre los Andersons y Silvers de Tinsel, Michigan. En nombre de traer la paz a nuestra ciudad natal con temática navideña y a nosotros mismos, interpretaremos el papel de Romeo y Julieta. Si nuestros familiares piensan que estamos enamorados, tendrán que poner fin a esta ridícula disputa. ¿Verdad? Amanda es una paseadora de perros profesional, y yo soy una ingeniera que ama a los perros, ¿qué tan difícil podría ser mostrar a nuestras familias qué más tenemos en común? Sin embargo, el calor y la alegría navideña infernal de esta ciudad me están molestando la cabeza. Y una vez que empezamos a hacer nuestros planes de boda falsos, parece que no puedo mantener mi corazón fuera de ello.






Siento que este no fue el típico libro de Pippa, lo sentí más serio que sus anteriores trabajos, pero no deja de tener comedia.

Lo malo es lo lo sentí muy corto.

Tanto como Amanda como Dane fueron buenos personajes. Me gustó que los pudimos conocer dejando a lado el romance. No significa que no haya romance sino que tuvimos de ellos como personas y como pareja.



Gracias NetGalley, el publicista y la autora por el ARC, lo disfruté mucho.

Blurting out that you’re engaged to someone from your family’s sworn enemy list isn’t how Amanda Anderson saw her day starting. But she does, and then she has to live with the lie, convince the guy she said she was engaged to to help her perpetuate it, and prevent herself from falling in love with him.

This Romeo and Juliet -Lite – retelling was a cute and quick read.

The reason for the family feud is revealed, eventually, but before that the hero and heroine must live through a week of wedding plans from their family’s trying to one-up the other, and try to keep the act of eternal love going.

The writing was solid, as was the plot. The two things that bothered me about the story most was the use of the word “DICK” by EVERYONE to describe bad behavior of other people. As in, “Don’t be a dick about it,” and “Stop being a dick.” I could understand if this was said by one character as a character quirk. But everyone in the book said it and that made me feel as if the characters were a little flat.
Also, the “sex scenes”: while I love the English language, the way body parts were described I felt was a little trashy for this kind of book and didn’t fit the character’s “voices.”

3.5 stars from me. Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a sneak peak. I think this book will do very well when it’s released.

I absolutely love this author and everything she writes. This book....I devoured like all of her others. Thank you so much for the ARC!

What a decidedly lovely five-star read. I love Christmas, so I completely get wanting it all year round, but I do feel that after a few years of it, I would be like Amanda and Zane and be wanting to stay away from it, and not get folded into the mix. There are a couple of predictable moments in the story, but they are few and far between and overall get lots in the story. This was a really cute story, and if you are looking for some holiday cheer, or even just some cheer then this is certainly a story for you.

Por lo regular me cuesta adentrarme en las a historias de los libros de Pippa por su sentido de humor, pero en esta ocasión no ocurrió.



Los Andersons y los Silvers han sido rivales en lo comercial y enemigos por años. Nadie sabe porque llevan décadas de enemistad y no les importa, se insultan en cada oportunidad, tiene prohibido confratenizar entre ellos y ni hablar de ser amigos.


Amanda Andersons era la chica popular en la escuela. Dane Silvers era tímidos y estuvo enamorado de ella en la secundaria, pero nunca se atrevió a decírselo.


Cuando la abuela de Amanda le informa que le dará la batuta para dirigir la panaderia familiar, se le ocurre inventar que está comprometida con Dane para que busquen a alguien más y como Dane esta harto de su tonta pelea, acepta fingir para poder unir a las familias.





Que risa con el epílogo adicional 🤣



Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and Montlake for providing this book, with my honest review below.

The Fake Wedding Project was a great spin on Romeo and Juliet (gone right) and a low stakes caper all in one. Amanda and Dane are trying to get some agency while also quashing a feud between their families (and figuring out what even caused the feud). Set in a Christmas themed town, this could have read as corny very quickly but Pippa Grant straddles the line so well that this was decidedly adorable (and yes a bit steamy) with a strong story to keep it engaging.

All that said I can’t get enough of Chili the world’s laziest dog. The bonus epilogue from his perspective was adorable - though I now have to wonder if my own pup hates Santa as well (vs. our Santa’s shady behavior) given his own… issues.. when we took our Christmas pictures.

Pick this one up! It'll bring you some holiday cheer and romance no matter the season, much like the town it takes place in!

The Fake Wedding Project (Kindle Edition)by Pippa Grant
I really enjoyed this book Dane and Amanda play on Romeo and Juliet (without the dying part). There is an old family feud, angst, mystery, attraction, a very adorable dog, laughter, tears, deception, and plenty of heat all to get us to a very HEA.
Reasons I enjoyed this book:
Wonderful characters Informative Unpredictable Funny Entertaining Happily Ever After Tear-jerker Great world building Romantic Page-turner Easy-to-read Steamy.