Book review: Fake Crowne by CD Reiss

Crowne brothers #4

Colton & Skye

Cute story with the most deluded female character I’ve ever read!  Skye from Michigan was on her way to study medicine but her big desire to try for a singing career made her try a pact with her parents.  They’re going to support her for two years while she tries for success in Hollywood but if at the end she failed, she goes back home straight to med school.  Her time is growing short and her extreme social anxiety is making it near impossible to get anywhere, in spite of her huge talent.

Colton Crowne is back home after spending his whole inheritance in various projects and a huge scandal with a current top pop star Tamika.  After many lawyers and court rooms, he’s back home living in his brother Logan’s pool house, penniless and still giving parties for the drunk and the restless.  His older brother Liam asked him to work with his talent since he’s a singer whisperer, he initially refused, but after he heart Skye, he was in.

I didn’t exactly feel how they fell in love, but once they were in a relation, they were lovely.  They were supposed to be in a fake relation to improve her chances at getting contracts but of course, they blurred the lines and broke all their rules.  They were cute together, he made her feel safe, introduced her to the Pez dispenser collection he got from Logan, and in some strange way, holding a Pez in her hand made her deal with her anxiety.

I loved how Colton got his jibe back after feeling like a failure.  He’s incredibly nerdy and talented and from how smart he is, I didn’t understand why he failed at previous projects.  All I know is he didn’t fail with Skye, but she was her own worst enemy.  She was hung up that her time was up and she had to go back to school.  I can’t believe how you want to pursue something that made you unhappy and brought more stress than what she already had, but she seemed to be hung up on failure.  And her mother was so pushy and manipulative!  I got anxiety during the deals with the mother and her insistence on med school!

I loved the family moments with the Crowne brothers when they throw jabs at each other, loved mother Crowne and her tingly feelings, loved little Matt and his Lego figurines.  I didn’t love Skye’s mother, tolerated her father who was more understanding.  Loved Skye’s friends Fátima of the tamales dulces and Becca.  It was a cute story but I felt it lacked more depth and a better back story.  Even so, it was entertaining and it gave a great view of the world of Hollywood music, cutthroat and chaotic.

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About the author

CD Reiss is a Brooklyn native and has the accent to prove it. She earned a master’s degree in cinematic writing from USC, and though she ultimately failed to have one line of dialog put on film, she stayed in Los Angeles out of spite.

Since screenwriting was going nowhere, she switched to novels and has released over two dozen titles since, including two New York Times Bestsellers and a handful of USA Today bestsellers. Her audiobooks have won APA Audie Awards and Earphones Awards.

She resides in Hollywood in a house that’s just big enough for her two children, two cats, her long-suffering husband and her massive ego.

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