[New Post] ARC Review: Before the Sunset by Laura Pavlov


Title: Before the Sunset

Author: Laura Pavlov

Page count: 322

Published: September 21st, 2023

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5


He’s an actor in need of an image makeover. She’s determined to show her ex-fiancé that she’s moved on. A fake relationship between two best friends is the perfect solution. Or is it?

Reese Murphy has been my best friend since before we took our first steps.
She’s the yin to my yang.
The peanut butter to my jelly.
It’s all platonic, of course, as we made a pact years ago that we’d never cross the line.
But then she took a job abroad and moved away for a year.
To say I’ve been lost without her would be a massive understatement.
She’s finally coming home, and I couldn’t be happier about it.
And then she presents me with a proposition…
Pretend to be her boyfriend.
I am an actor, after all, so it should be a piece of cake.
It’s all part of her grand plan to show her ex-fiancé that she’s moved on.
My agent wants me to clean up my image, so it would be a win-win for both of us.
But then she moves into my house and prances around in those tiny pajama shorts.
There’s also the night she catches me alone in the bathroom in a compromising position.
And she isn’t in any hurry to leave.
We get lost in the moment and now I can’t think of anything else.


We are way past a gray area at this point.
We’ve entered a smoking-hot-I-think-I-might-be-in-love-with-my-best-friend area.
The problem is, she still thinks we’re fake dating.
And I stopped faking it a long time ago.



Oh my my this book was wonderful. Finn and Reese have known one another since birth so they did everything together and I mean everything all the ups and downs. They were one another’s other half like peanut butter and jelly. The chemistry they have is electric, their connection is beautiful. So falling into a fake relationship into something more was natural to them and it felt real. This was a wonderful instalment in the series this is my favourite in the series thus far, there’s still one more. If you have been following my reviews for a while now you may know that I love friends to lovers books but adding in the element of childhood best friends is just something that adds a little something that I love. (I still need to think of a name for it lol)



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