Overall, I LOVED this book! If you are a fan of a fake identity romance with a hunky up-and-coming “Irish” actor, an eclectic spunky costume designer, accents, movie sets, Hollywood, an adorable niece, sewingtok, Dodger’s games, movies at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, an instigating sister, loyal workout buddy, a date at Ye Rustic Inn, rainchecks, clever conversations, super hot steamy times, coming clean, Medieval Times, and a HEA that will make your heart fly, then you will love Will and Raven’s story. Joe also brought the STEAM! Liam and Raven have insta-HOT chemistry that starts out fun and flirty, then later absolutely burns up the pages. I loved how Raven was determined and driven by her own hopeful goals to carve her own unique path in the Hollywood costume designing industry. Told from Will aka Liam, an aspiring actor's point of view, we get an in-depth, intimate perspective of his ambitions, passions, mishaps, and desires as he goes after his dream job and his very own dream girl. locations which made the reader feel fully immersed in every aspect of the story. I’ll be the blackbird to your Irish, and oh my stitches! The Chameleon Effect by Joe Arden was a movie star, fake identity swoon-worthy romance that did deliciously good things to my heart! This romance created so many feel-good vibes, and I could not stop smiling! I love how Joe featured so many iconic L.A. *This first-person, male-POV rom-com has it all: lots of heat, plenty of heart, and a Hollywood-worthy HEA. Our romance might be destined for the cutting room floor, unless I can salvage our story with a plot twist she won't see coming. Our picture-perfect screenplay seems sure to send us riding off onto Sunset Boulevard… Until Raven finds out that Comedy and Tragedy aren’t the only masks I'm wearing. While Raven pursues her passion for fashion I chase her heart. On set, she’s the costumer tasked with fitting my pants, but all I can think about is how to get into hers.Īs my-I mean, Liam’s-budding career begins to heat up, so do our feelings. ‘Liam’ and his talent with accents is enough to get my foot in the door, but I never anticipated meeting the woman who has me more worried about keeping my foot out of my mouth.Įnter Raven Locke, the dark-haired bombshell who puts the ‘tude in tattooed. Pretend I’m someone I'm not-goodbye Will O’Connell of Cincinnati and hello Liam O’Connell of Dublin. So I devise a wild scheme to get noticed. Well, you know what they say: fake it till you make it.

Now all I need is a chance.īut Los Angeles is full of hot, young hunks, and talent might not be enough to separate me from the cookie-cutter crowd.

I've got everything it takes to make it in Tinseltown: confidence, charisma, and a killer chin.

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