Wishing for Champagne Kisses by Brittanee Nicole

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Best Friends Don’t Kiss.

Ryan Manning has been my best friend since we were kids. He’s my secret keeper. The holder of all my truths and the person I admire most in the world. He’s also a Lumbersnack and the man I’ve secretly pined after for decades.
But we don’t talk about that.
I’m just here in Lake Tahoe for the next week to play the part of his doting girlfriend. Cuddle up in front of his ex? Not a problem. Hold hands in front of his family? Totally fine. Kiss him while no one is watching? I’m your gal.
As a rule, you definitely shouldn’t kiss your best friend. It’s a good thing I don’t follow the rules.

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File Name:wishing-for-champagne-kisses-by-brittanee-nicole.epub
Original Title:Wishing for Champagne Kisses : A Fake Dating Novella (The Silver Lining Series Book 6)
Creator:Brittanee Nicole
Language:en
Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B0B6CRD85T
Publisher:anonymous
Date:2022-10-06T16:00:00+00:00
File Size:1.073 MB

Table of Content

1. Prologue
2. Present Day
3. Chapter 1
4. Chapter 2
5. Chapter 3
6. Chapter 4
7. Chapter 5
8. Chapter 6
9. Chapter 7
10. Chapter 8
11. Chapter 9
12. Chapter 10
13. Chapter 11
14. Chapter 12
15. Chapter 13
16. Chapter 14
17. Chapter 15
18. Chapter 16
19. Chapter 17
20. Epilogue
21. Acknowledgments

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Kiley O：

Wishing for Champagne Kisses, Book 6 of the Silver Lining series (as well as Book 3 of the Falling For Whiskey duet. It also connects to the Bristol Bay series in that one of the characters is the MMC in a book of that series.), was about Tessa "Pixie" Sanderson, a writer for a magazine in Boston, and Ryan "Ry" Manning, a firefighter in Lake Tahoe, who had known each other forever and had been best friends for over a decade. Although Ry and Tessa had not seen each other in person for over ten years, they spoke almost daily via the telephone or video calls. They rarely went a night without spending at least fifteen minutes talking. Tessa even met Ry's niece during one of the calls, and they became fast friends and would video call whenever she visited her uncle. When Ry needed a date to one of his sisters' wedding, he told them he was in a relationship with his long-time friend, Tessa, and that she would be his date. He told Tess he needed a date to keep his sisters from setting him up with someone, so she agreed to fake-date him during the Christmas and New Year holidays that led up to the wedding. What neither one told the other was that they wanted to be more than just friends and fake dating. Almost immediately, the chemistry between the two flared up and didn't drop until the end. But it still felt more like a slow burn than a conflagration, mainly because they didn't communicate their true feelings to each other. At. All. It was frustrating. The angst and drama were low in this short story, and the spiciness was a tad underwhelming, but the storyline was interesting. However, it dragged a little too much because of how little the two main characters communicated with each other. Their whole friendship was based on "truths" (they shared each other's secrets and only told the truth to each other), but at the same time, they both withheld their true feelings since high school...spanning two decades of secrecy. There wasn't a lot to the story. No other man/other woman drama, hardly any push/pull between the two main characters, and barely any conflict. It made it a bit boring. The author constantly mentioned a couple of women Ry had either dated or been interested in, but they weren't part of the secondary characters. I had actually hoped that one of them in particular would put in an appearance so she could be put in her place for how she'd treated Tessa growing up. Sadly, she wasn't brought into the story any further than as a painful reminder of the past. I loved that Tessa got her HFN. She was a secondary character in the Falling for Whiskey duet, but she lightened that book up with her jovial spirit. I would have liked for her to have a HEA instead of a HFN, but I'll have to live with that bit of disappointment. Although it was a short novella, it still moved at a snail's pace, which tended to make it a bit of a dry read. There were too many loose ends that didn't get wrapped up that would have been interesting to hear about. There were so many plot twists that got started but reached a dead-end and nothing ever came of them. It was too easy to lose interest, even though the reader was rooting for the HEA for the two main characters. Hopefully we'll get to see them go from a HFN to a HEA as secondary characters in one of the other books in the multiple series in which they appear. For now, I gave the story a 3.5-star rating, rounded up to four.

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