I received an arc from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. 
 I will say this falls into what you'd expect from a fake dating romance. I did really enjoy it, and I really liked the couple in this story, and they did have a good amount of chemistry. It wasn't exactly anything stand out or special but for what it was, I did like it. Something that I felt was a little weird though that despite Max saying he won't have sex with Grady because he felt it'd be borderline prostitution, he initiated sex the first night they were at Grady's father's house. That felt like it came out of nowhere. I haven't read the first book, but I might. I did like the authors writing style.