Review: Like You Love Me by Adriana Locke

Like You Love Me by Adriana Locke
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was provided an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a really sweet romance.  If you are looking for a feel good, wholesome romance with some humor, look no further.  This follows childhood friends who have recently stumbled into a marriage of convenience on both sides.  He needs a wife so he he looks stable for a potential job prospect after his life fell to pieces through no fault of his own.  She needs someone with the ability to pay off her debt and save her beloved bed and breakfast.  What they didn't expect is that their "fake" marriage might actually turn into a real one and their pretend feelings might actually be real.

I liked that Holden and Sophie knew each other previously.  I'm not a huge fan of insta-love, but the fact that he spent summers in Honey Creek and they always liked each other despite never acting on their feelings previously took that issue out of the story.  They already have friendship and memories to back up their feelings and relationship, so when Holden asks her to marry him to get them both out of their situations it is still a crazy solution, but not totally outlandish.  Despite the fact that they both agree to keep things between them completely platonic, things don't go as planned.  

I really enjoyed watching Sophie and Holden's relationship unfold.  They were comfortable with each other from spending years together as friends and they had great chemistry.  This has some great side characters that I hope to see more of in future books.  If you like friends to lovers, second chance romances, and marriages of convenience this is a great story!  I thoroughly enjoyed it!

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