The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson

The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson

ARC from PRH audio and Berkley Pub for a honest review 

Book Blurb:

Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail—she hasn’t had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother’s obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with threatens to drive Mackenzie barking mad. Out of options, it feels like a small thing to tell her grandmother that she’s met someone. That is, until she blurts out the name of the first man she sees and the last man she would ever date: Noah Taylor, the big bad wolf of Denver General. Noah Taylor, interventional cardiologist and all around grump, has spent his entire life hiding what he is. With outdated stigmas surrounding unmated alphas that have people wondering if they still howl at the moon, Noah has been careful to keep his designation under wraps. It’s worked for years, until an anonymous tip has everything coming to light. Noah is left with two options: come clean to the board and risk his career—or find himself a mate. The chatty, overly friendly ER doctor asking him to be her fake boyfriend on the same day he’s called to meet the board has to be kismet, right?

My Review: 3 stars

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The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson is a wholly different type of rom-com in that it features two wolf shifters. I’ve been slowly tiptoeing into the romance genre because really, I need the escape it provides. This though, was a little out of my comfort zone. Had I known that it was a shifter romance, I probably wouldn’t have picked it up – but of course, I’m still glad I did.

Listen, I enjoy some fantasy; I can do shifters and love vampires. But there was something with the whole alpha, omega and shifting thing that didn’t work for me. Maybe it was because the couple got together way too soon so it lost some tension or maybe the alpha protective thing went overboard for me.

I really did like Mac, the main character. She was funny, fleshed out and quirky. I mean, whose favorite food is any type soup? Noah, besides his gravely good looks was a bit flat for me. I didn’t read this author’s first book, but I know it was well received. Depending on the topic of Ferguson’s next book, I’ll definitely give it a read.