The Love Con

 The Love Con by Seressia Glass, 320 pages.

Kenya Davenport has just made it to the final round of the reality TV cosplay competition show Cosplay or No Way when the judges throw a complication for her into play. Their last challenge is a couples cosplay, and with Kenya extremely single. When the snootiest judge makes some comments about her competitor having an advantage because he's competing with his husband she impulsively claims that her best friend and roommate, Cameron Lassiter, is her boyfriend, and that they'll be competing together. Now they have to convince the film crew (and by extension the people in their lives) that they're dating for four weeks while they try desperately to complete two very complex costumes for the chance at $100,000 and the opportunity to help costume a major Hollywood production (not to mention the chance to make Kenya's parents take her dream career seriously and stop pushing her to use her engineering degree). 

So first off I feel like I need to address how completely unnecessary the fake dating is. They absolutely didn't have to do that. But it is clear from the first few chapters that they're both very into each other, so mostly it just ends up feeling like an extremely elaborate excuse to act on those feelings. Which is so completely stupid it is both hilarious and endearing. Is this a good book? I'm honestly not sure. Did I enjoy it? Absolutely.