A review by thisteachreads
Faking with Benefits by Lily Gold

medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

This book was certainly a fast read for a novel with over 500 pages, and the writing was more simplistic than some of the other stories I’m used to.

I think what really took me out of this story was the sheer unrealisticness of it. It wasn’t unrealistic because it was a relationship between a woman and three men - it was unrealistic because they all seemed to be perfectly happy from the get-go sharing her with each other and didn’t once disagree or argue about this, despite the fact that 2/3 MMCs were supposedly
in love with her the whole time…


I also really did not enjoy the names they used (nicknames/ pet names).

Layla came across as whiny and needy. 

Zack was a bit of a knob and the fact that he was hung up on his dead girlfriend that he lost when he was 18 (12 years ago at the point of this story) was a bit absurd.

I really don’t get what Josh’s problem was - why wouldn’t he just tell Layla he liked her and gone out with her from the beginning? Seems like he was attractive, well-off and Layla made her attraction/ affections known. 

Luke was a bit creepy. Not because he was older but because he was her former teacher.

There were many things I didn’t like about this story.

If you’re looking for a lot of spicy sex scenes and not much substance, I guess this is worth picking up. Otherwise, skip this one.
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