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Holidates #11
Rent A Boo
Sometimes you gotta fake it, till you make it.
Ben Hoffman needs a fake date for his family’s annual Halloween party. Despite being the youngest National Medal of the Arts winner in US history, his hippie mom is always on his case about adding something meaningful to his life, LOVE. So rather than endure another year of her mournful eyes, he’s decided to rent a date using the Holidates App. Except the joke’s on him because Jess Darling is a smart-mouthed, curly-haired, banging-bodied, free-spirit who firmly believes art is the eye of the beholder and that has very little to do with training. Her perspectives go against everything he learned studying art history at Oxford.
Things go from bad to worse when Ben and Jess are forced to share his childhood bedroom. He shouldn’t find her bohemian style attractive, or her glass-is-always-full-optimism delightful, when his own glass definitely needs a refill. Still, there is something in Jess that not only calls to him, but calms him, settles him. When the weekend is over, Ben isn’t so sure he’s been faking anything with Jess. In fact, he’s pretty certain he can’t imagine ever being done with her.
The Holidates Series
Need a date for a holiday event? A family dinner with nosy relatives pestering you about settling down? The Holidates App is the perfect answer to your busy lifestyle needs. With this dating app, find the perfect rental date; both parties set the terms and conditions, absolutely no strings attached.
Join your favorite instalove authors every month of the year for a new holidate story gone bad...or oh so right. Holidates will prove tested and true to give you ALL the feels and become your new favorite app.
Ben Hoffman needs a fake date for his family’s annual Halloween party. Despite being the youngest National Medal of the Arts winner in US history, his hippie mom is always on his case about adding something meaningful to his life, LOVE. So rather than endure another year of her mournful eyes, he’s decided to rent a date using the Holidates App. Except the joke’s on him because Jess Darling is a smart-mouthed, curly-haired, banging-bodied, free-spirit who firmly believes art is the eye of the beholder and that has very little to do with training. Her perspectives go against everything he learned studying art history at Oxford.
Things go from bad to worse when Ben and Jess are forced to share his childhood bedroom. He shouldn’t find her bohemian style attractive, or her glass-is-always-full-optimism delightful, when his own glass definitely needs a refill. Still, there is something in Jess that not only calls to him, but calms him, settles him. When the weekend is over, Ben isn’t so sure he’s been faking anything with Jess. In fact, he’s pretty certain he can’t imagine ever being done with her.
The Holidates Series
Need a date for a holiday event? A family dinner with nosy relatives pestering you about settling down? The Holidates App is the perfect answer to your busy lifestyle needs. With this dating app, find the perfect rental date; both parties set the terms and conditions, absolutely no strings attached.
Join your favorite instalove authors every month of the year for a new holidate story gone bad...or oh so right. Holidates will prove tested and true to give you ALL the feels and become your new favorite app.
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65 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2022
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Lola West is the queen of sweet, smart, silly, sexy romance! She has a PhD in women's studies and a flair for the dramatic. She likes cotton candy, astronomy, kitten heels
and small town hunks.
Lola is a pen name.
The minds behind Lola are just like you - everyday people living regular lives, happy to day dream about sexy men and the sassy women they love.
LONG LIVE THE BOOK BOYFRIEND!
Lola's Instagram
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Lola West is the queen of sweet, smart, silly, sexy romance! She has a PhD in women's studies and a flair for the dramatic. She likes cotton candy, astronomy, kitten heels
and small town hunks.
Lola is a pen name.
The minds behind Lola are just like you - everyday people living regular lives, happy to day dream about sexy men and the sassy women they love.
LONG LIVE THE BOOK BOYFRIEND!
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January 11, 2023
we’re not gonna talk about it 💅🏼
October 1, 2022
Another fantastic romance from Lola West! This is just the book to read this Halloween! Ben and Jess were wonderful together! I wasn’t sure at first if I would like Ben. He’s a different kind of person with strict rules and expectations, but give him a chance and I promise you will fall in love with him! All he needed was the right woman to break down his walls and help him become the best version of himself. Jess is that for him with her blunt honesty, charismatic personality, and artistic soul.
Ben and Jess meet when he hires her through the Holidates dating app to be his fake girlfriend to visit his parents. They are both artists with her being a photographer and him being a painter. He was so interesting because he doesn’t go with the creative flow or free spirit, everything he does is careful and calculated. Over the course of the weekend, things get really flirty, awkward, tense, before becoming extremely HOT! I really enjoyed the hottest Halloween haunted walk you will definitely ever read!! I loved how the story unfolded and it’s conclusion was beautiful and just perfect for these two! This is definitely a must read so grab yourself a copy today!
Ben and Jess meet when he hires her through the Holidates dating app to be his fake girlfriend to visit his parents. They are both artists with her being a photographer and him being a painter. He was so interesting because he doesn’t go with the creative flow or free spirit, everything he does is careful and calculated. Over the course of the weekend, things get really flirty, awkward, tense, before becoming extremely HOT! I really enjoyed the hottest Halloween haunted walk you will definitely ever read!! I loved how the story unfolded and it’s conclusion was beautiful and just perfect for these two! This is definitely a must read so grab yourself a copy today!
October 14, 2022
STEAM LEVEL: 🔥🔥🔥
~ 𝙹𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝚂𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚌, 𝚢𝚎𝚜, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚛𝚕𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚢, 𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚎𝚍. ~
What an absolute pleasant surprise, y’all! Usually these themed, quick novellas are just “okay,” but I ended up loving this sweet, sassy, sexy little novella! Ben and Jess were absolutely adorable together. He was composed and stoic and she was wild and free. Even though it was SHORT, it was fulfilling.
So Ben puts out an ad for a date to go to his parent’s Halloween party. Jess is short on rent and desperately needs money. She’s a photographer and Ben is a famous artist who hates photography. There’s a bit of animosity in the beginning but Ben just can’t resist the shy but outgoing ball of fire that Jess is.
I also loved Ben’s parents, the spicy scenes, and that ending! It was almost too short but absolutely perfect for a Halloween novella.
March 26, 2023
Really enjoyed this opposites attract novella…
Down on her funds, Jess accepts a “job” as the date of a stranger. Meeting at the airport, she recognizes a well-known painter as the man she’s to spend the weekend with. An artist, herself, she’s thrilled to meet him but knows he has a reputation as being a jerk. She figures she can put up with anything for a couple days. She really needs the money to pay her rent.
Ben’s wealthy parents hold a big deal Halloween party every year for family and friends. Every year, his mom’s disappointed that Ben doesn’t bring home a date. This year, Ben is out to make her happy… and get her off his back.
Neither stopped to think about the sleeping accommodations, though.
Spicy, fun story in a spicy, fun series.
Down on her funds, Jess accepts a “job” as the date of a stranger. Meeting at the airport, she recognizes a well-known painter as the man she’s to spend the weekend with. An artist, herself, she’s thrilled to meet him but knows he has a reputation as being a jerk. She figures she can put up with anything for a couple days. She really needs the money to pay her rent.
Ben’s wealthy parents hold a big deal Halloween party every year for family and friends. Every year, his mom’s disappointed that Ben doesn’t bring home a date. This year, Ben is out to make her happy… and get her off his back.
Neither stopped to think about the sleeping accommodations, though.
Spicy, fun story in a spicy, fun series.
October 30, 2022
Short on cash to pay next month's rent, New York City-based photographer Jessica Darling decides to answer an ad on the Holidates app from a guy who needs a date for Halloween weekend on Martha's Vineyard. When she arrives at the airport, she's dismayed to discover that the man who hired her is none other than painter Ben Hoffman, the darling of the art world whose disdain for any form of artistic expression besides classical painting has become legendary. His rude behavior when they first meet only confirms her negative impression of him, but she desperately needs the money he's offering, so she gets on the plane. Ben, meanwhile, is tired of his free-spirited mother constantly being disappointed in him for not having a girlfriend, which is why he's gone to the trouble of hiring a fake one for her annual Halloween party. Jess is not what he expected; in fact, she sees him in a way few others ever have, and it makes him uncomfortable, especially because she's not afraid to tell him what she thinks. Could getting out of his comfort zone actually turn out to be a good thing?
I didn't think it was possible to combine the enemies-to-lovers and insta-love tropes, but IMO the author has managed to do so in this novella, and quite successfully. Even though their relationship moved quickly, there was a real sense that their feelings were based on an emotional connection, not just a physical one. That said, the steam was pretty great too. Ben turned out to be quite the dirty talker!
I very much enjoyed "Rent-a-Boo" and recommend it for all contemporary romance and romantic comedy fans. I look forward to whatever Lola West writes next.
*Review copy provided by the author. All opinions expressed are my own.
I didn't think it was possible to combine the enemies-to-lovers and insta-love tropes, but IMO the author has managed to do so in this novella, and quite successfully. Even though their relationship moved quickly, there was a real sense that their feelings were based on an emotional connection, not just a physical one. That said, the steam was pretty great too. Ben turned out to be quite the dirty talker!
I very much enjoyed "Rent-a-Boo" and recommend it for all contemporary romance and romantic comedy fans. I look forward to whatever Lola West writes next.
*Review copy provided by the author. All opinions expressed are my own.
October 10, 2022
This book went from maybe even -10 in the romance department to like 75 to 600 all in just a few pages. It was a fun and quick read, it was easy and enjoyable enough, but it wasn't that great to be honest. Yes, it's a short story, I understand the love has to be kinda insta, but engaged to be married after like knowing each other for a week, not realistic at all and not my cup of tea.
3/5 stars.
3/5 stars.
October 11, 2022
Trick or treat yo' self with this gem
Best Halloween novella.
It has push pull, sexual tension, great banter, some really good spice and a great HEA with epilogue
Jess and Ben find that while they are opposites they are totally attracted to you each other.
Highly recommend if your looking for something short sweet and has the right kind of steam. Ben is pretty good at the dirty talk and has a little caveman bedroom vibe. Very hot!!
Best Halloween novella.
It has push pull, sexual tension, great banter, some really good spice and a great HEA with epilogue
Jess and Ben find that while they are opposites they are totally attracted to you each other.
Highly recommend if your looking for something short sweet and has the right kind of steam. Ben is pretty good at the dirty talk and has a little caveman bedroom vibe. Very hot!!
October 17, 2022
Cute, hot, and sweet! Fun little Halloween romp.
Down on her luck Photographer Jessica Darling is in dire need of rent money and Benjamin Hoffman, artist extraordinaire and snob of her medium of art is in dire need of a girlfriend to take to his parents Halloween Party. Sparks fly when these two meet their match. Lines get blurred and soon both of them are wondering if this is still just a job or maybe something more.
Pick up this sweet little quickie today! No tricks, all treats!
Down on her luck Photographer Jessica Darling is in dire need of rent money and Benjamin Hoffman, artist extraordinaire and snob of her medium of art is in dire need of a girlfriend to take to his parents Halloween Party. Sparks fly when these two meet their match. Lines get blurred and soon both of them are wondering if this is still just a job or maybe something more.
Pick up this sweet little quickie today! No tricks, all treats!
October 1, 2022
Such a cute Halloween read! Jess and Ben are the total opposites in character, but they do say ‘opposites attract!’ The banter between these two is hilarious.
Quick read to have a steamy Halloween night!
Quick read to have a steamy Halloween night!
October 1, 2022
Loved
Loved Hess and Ben's story. Ben needs to a date to take home to his family and Jess needs the money. An enemies to lovers feel with sweet Jess able to push past Ben's defenses.
Loved Hess and Ben's story. Ben needs to a date to take home to his family and Jess needs the money. An enemies to lovers feel with sweet Jess able to push past Ben's defenses.
October 6, 2022
loved it!
This short story was a very fun read. The characters had personality and the story was believable. I truly enjoyed it and will certainly be checking out more of Lola West’s work.
This short story was a very fun read. The characters had personality and the story was believable. I truly enjoyed it and will certainly be checking out more of Lola West’s work.
November 22, 2022
loved it!
Fun, steamy, and wonderful. Well written and easy to get caught up in. Great characters with tangible chemistry. Lola West is so good at fitting beautiful stories that feel genuine and natural into small packages.
Fun, steamy, and wonderful. Well written and easy to get caught up in. Great characters with tangible chemistry. Lola West is so good at fitting beautiful stories that feel genuine and natural into small packages.
October 1, 2022
Ben and Jess are complete opposites but seem to find a few things in common. The banter and laughs between these two along with the steam is fantastic!
What a fun Halloween night adventure!
What a fun Halloween night adventure!
October 7, 2022
super cute.
October 8, 2022
fun
This book was a fun holiday read. Ben and Jess were a great couple. I enjoyed seeing her help him to breakdown his walls. Great quick read.
This book was a fun holiday read. Ben and Jess were a great couple. I enjoyed seeing her help him to breakdown his walls. Great quick read.
October 20, 2022
A bit short but still pretty good. A great, quick, fun read for Halloween.
November 14, 2022
Totally enjoyed reading this book
October 21, 2023
I know the whole point was for the story to be a novella, but I wanted moreeeee ugh.
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