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    Love At First Like
    Love At First Like
    Love At First Like
    Audiobook9 hours

    Love At First Like

    Written by Hannah Orenstein

    Narrated by Rebekkah Ross

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Named a Best Book of Summer by Glamour, BuzzFeed, Cosmopolitan, and many more!

    From the author of Playing with Matches, the rollicking tale of a young jewelry shop owner who accidentally leads her Instagram followers to believe that she’s engaged—and then decides to keep up the ruse.

    Eliza Roth and her sister Sophie co-own a jewelry shop in Brooklyn. One night, after learning of an ex’s engagement, Eliza accidentally posts a photo of herself wearing a diamond ring on that finger to her Instagram account beloved by 100,000 followers. Sales skyrocket, press rolls in, and Eliza learns that her personal life is good for business. So she has a choice: continue the ruse or clear up the misunderstanding. With mounting financial pressure, Eliza sets off to find a fake fiancé.

    Fellow entrepreneur Blake seems like the perfect match on paper. And in real life he shows promise, too. He would be perfect, if only Eliza didn’t feel also drawn to someone else. But Blake doesn’t know Eliza is “engaged”; Sophie asks Eliza for an impossible sum of money; and Eliza’s lies start to spiral out of control. She can either stay engaged online or fall in love in real life.

    Written with singular charm and style, Love at First Like is for anyone growing up and settling down in the digital age.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 6, 2019
    ISBN9781508297321
    Author

    Hannah Orenstein

    Hannah Orenstein is the author of Playing with Matches, Love at First Like, and Head Over Heels, and is the deputy editor of dating at Elite Daily. Previously, she was a writer and editor at Seventeen.com. She lives in Brooklyn.

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    • 2/5
      This book was pretty frustrating. It was unrealistic and not in a cute, fictional way like books sometimes are. Eliza, the main character, was the WORST. And I think she got worse as the book went on. She basically manipulates a poor guy to think she loves him and wants to marry him all to save her business? Wtf. When the main plot was first introduced, I thought she was looking for a fake fiancé for this fake wedding but then her whole relationship with Blake is semi real and she acts like she actually has to be okay with marrying him. Then when it comes to Raj, she finally realizes it can be a fake wedding? It just felt so ridiculously implausible and Eliza was such a selfish brat the whole way through. The book really just felt like it condoned her behavior too which was shameful. Not my fave read.

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    • 5/5
      Fun and entertaining listen! Always nice to have a happy ending.
    • 1/5
      This should not have been called “love” anything. It’s all about doing the most unethical things and tricking people for money. All for money. Not for love.
    • 1/5
      The MC was truly an awful person who almost ruined a guys life who was just looking to find someone to spend the rest of his life with, while she was just looking for someone to help her turn a profit on her business. She didn’t deserve the guys who fell in love with her. Almost didn’t finish but kept hoping there would be this big turnaround and character arc but there wasn’t.
    • 3/5
      Great audio but the storyline is the most unrealistic romance I’ve ever read.
    • 4/5
      This reminds me of both My Best Friend’s Wedding and Runaway Bride. The MC is so deeply flawed but her execution of trying to pull off this fake wedding is a train wreck I absolutely could not look away from. I smiled so much, but mostly because the girl was nuts and I knew it was going to end disasterously. I feel like people would enjoy this kind of story more as a movie than a book (based on others’ ratings). But it was a fun ride for me.
    • 5/5
      An entertaining example on how social media can drive decision making in today’s culture. I hope listeners realize how fictional this is and that making decisions solely to increase followers can lead to a whirlwind of trouble. As a start up myself, I found some of the stress totally relatable. :)
    • 5/5
      Eliza kept me guessing and I stayed entertained throughout this story!
    • 1/5
      Such a self-centered, narcissist lead character! Painful to read her manipulation of everyone and everything she comes into contact with. Hard to feel any compassion for her situations.. Blake dodged a bullet.....Raj is next to be thrown under the bus. She doesn't deserve a "happy ever after"
    • 2/5
      I thought I was getting a fake dating story but instead I got this one. Eliza was not a very likeable character - she was selfish, a huge liar, and not very interesting. I wanted to find out how it ended so I finished it BUT only after increasing the speed on the audiobook to get through it faster. Raj was great, loved him. And Sophie and Liz. Blake was boring. This just could have had a much better storyline with a few tweaks.
    • 3/5
      So much unnecessary product placement and when she said she was walking down the aisle to a Bruno Mars song I audibly gagged
    • 3/5
      Well I definitely love the fake boyfriend trope, I had a hard time finding the main character likable and worthy of my compassion for the trouble she makes for herself. There's even a section where she mulls over what her situation would be like if the gender swap, and I finally thought oh excellent she's going to finally realize how terrible she is. But no. This was still a fun read and I had a good time very light as long as you don't try and think too deeply about what it means to use and dispose of human being, Even if you didn't mean that to happen that way.