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BOOKWORM REVIEW: The Dating Dilemma by Mariah Ankenman


RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
STEAM: 🔥🔥🔥

What would you do if a hot alpha-roll firefighter who raised his two younger sisters comes by weekly at your work to help you out?

Apparently, in Lexi's case, you start saying your inner thoughts out loud.

Lexi works as a director at a youth center that is always in need of volunteers and other forms of help. She works more than her share to fill in the gaps, leaving very little room for anything else in her life. That suits her just fine because she also has a bad history with relationships and is on a dating hiatus.

On her birthday, someone stops by the youth center, claiming to do a fire safety inspection of the building. She mistakes him to be a stripper-gram from her best friend when it turns out that Dyson was an actual real-life firefighting hottie. When he cites her building for some serious violations, panic takes over as the youth center is short on funds. Dyson ends up volunteering to help, but he firmly establishes the rule that while he finds Lexi attractive, he too is on a dating break.

However, when Dyson's sisters press him to start dating again by setting him up on surprise (and awkward) blind dates and telling him that they will work on adding him to dating apps, he fibs about seeing Lexi. When Lexi agrees to fake-date him to return the favor with him helping out at the center, would these two keep their no-dating boundaries?

I enjoyed this book. I thought Lexi and Dyson were cute, and I love them individually and as a couple. Lexi is passionate about the youth center and the kids who go there. She is also supportive not just of her own friends but even people she just met like Dyson's sisters. Dyson shares her compassion, being the guardian of his sisters. Despite their quirky efforts to annoy him, he adores them completely.

This was a fun steamy read if you're into fake dating and adorable support networks. There were some points where Ward and Diaz stole the show, and I cannot wait to read their story in the next book.

** I am voluntarily reviewing an advance copy of this book. **


ABOUT THE BOOK

Lexi’s Reminders

* Work.

* Don’t think about your birthday tomorrow. Or debt, your crappy apartment, and nonexistent social life.

* Re-stock wine and ice cream because that’s coming.

* Die in a raging blaze of humiliation when the super-hot and very delicious fireman waiting in your office is not in fact the strip-o-gram birthday present you suspected.

* Reschedule the fire safety inspection you 100 percent failed because of said humiliation.

* Figure out how you, in fact, agreed to fake dating Mr. Not a Strip-O-Gram Fireman to help him with a bet.

* Oh yeah, and do not fall for this guy. Seriously, they call him One Night O’Neil. Red flags all over the place.

* Remember, this is fake dating, even though his very talented, very real lips are doing some sexy things you definitely like.

* Realize bending one tiny rule can’t be that bad, can it?

* Except bend too far, and something breaks. Something you can’t get back.

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ABOUT MARIAH ANKENMAN

Bestselling author Mariah Ankenman lives in the beautiful Rocky Mountains with her two rambunctious daughters and loving spouse who provides ample inspiration for her heart-stopping heroes.

Whether she’s writing hometown heroes or sexy supernaturals, Mariah loves to lose herself in a world of words. Her favorite thing about writing is when she can make someone’s day a little brighter with one of her books.
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