GRR Reviews Lazy Love by Kirsten Osbourne

Lazy Love is a sweet love story about two TV stars that portrayed a couple but are not really in love... or are they?

Valerie is the star of popular TV series "Lazy Love" and her chemistry with her onscreen BF Jesse was off the charts. Offscreen, Valerie has a boyfriend of 8 years... but that's just on the surface. In reality, Valerie was terrified of her boyfriend, who had physically and emotionally abused her, basically taken over her life, often in a jealous rage, then contrite and asked to be forgiven the next day. When she finally had enough (after he threw a vase just missing her head) and broke up, her co-star Jesse dragged her off to Vegas and get married, partly to head off any negative publicity the ex-BF could generate at the tabloids, but partly because Jesse had pined after his co-star for YEARS, and those on-screen kisses aren't fake, at least on his part. Can such a relationship work? Will Val realize how much Jess loved her?

While the Ex was bad, he barely made an appearance in the story and thus there wasn't much tension in the story, once they got married, and then it's Val slowly realizing that perhaps this marriage wasn't as fake as she'd thought... For a demi-novel (about 150 pages) it's short and sweet, and not much else.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Actor rescued actress being abused by her BF, and hauled her off to get married in Vegas for PR, but he's actually quite fond of her for real... will she return the attention?

Tropes: performer, friends to lovers, triangle, evil ex

Overall Rating:  3/5