Act Like You Love Me by Cindi Madsen

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Description:
Brynn McAdams isn’t the awkward drama geek she was in high school—she’s grown up and confident, or at least she likes to think so. But when her old crush, the impossibly handsome and impossibly unattainable Sawyer Raines, comes back to town to direct her community play, Brynn finds herself determined to be someone other than the girl he doesn’t even recognize. Good thing she’s an excellent actress.  

After his bad breakup in NYC, the last thing Sawyer wants is to get involved with another actress. But the glamorous and beautiful Brynn draws him in, even though as her director, he knows she’s off-limits. There’s just something about the woman that feels…familiar. Like home.  

As Brynn’s lies start to snowball, she struggles to stop acting and come clean. But what if Sawyer is already falling for the fake Brynn, not the Brynn she truly is?

Review:

ACT LIKE YOU LOVE ME by Cindi Madsen is a wonderful contemporary romance, available just in time for summer!!  This novel will draw you in, hook, line and sinker!  Yes, that is a fishing reference, because our heroine works in her family’s bait shop, Bigfish!!  Brynn McAdams was an awkward teenager growing up and in love with the dreamy football player, Sawyer Raines.  She had a rough time in high school!  As a drama geek, she lost her skirt in a school production and earned the dreaded nickname—McFlasher.  Well, Brynn has outgrown her awkwardness and is a beautiful, confident woman.  

Brynn is starring in a local production and Sawyer Raines, the elusive and dreamy screenwriter, is roped into directing the play.  Sawyer doesn’t recognize the hot and sassy Brynn!  He thinks that she is an actress from LA and the comedy begins!!!

Brynn is performing the role of a lifetime!  Sawyer assumes many things about Brynn and she doesn’t correct him.  She even lets the man teach her how to fish!  She is the fishing expert, but she doesn’t want to lose her new connection to her childhood love!  It becomes a comedy or errors, which Brynn is Sawyer falling in love with?

This is a charming novel about a wonderful woman, afraid of rejection and a man who fears commitment!  Brynn is such an engaging heroine, I was rooting for her from the beginning.  She is so full of life and love! There are some great secondary characters too!  I loved their families, especially their matchmaking mothers!  Sawyer has some demons to overcome, due to the death of his father when he was a teen.  I won’t tell you the ending, but I was kind of surprised!  This is such an engaging story with a great cast of characters.  I felt like I lived in their lakeside town!  It’s great when an awkward teenager can overcome that insecurity and bloom as an adult!

Reviewed by Jules

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