Pretend Girlfriend

About This Audiobook

Cassie Cole delivers a sharp, hilarious take on the fake relationship trope—imagine *The Hating Game* meets *Girl Trip* in a sun-soaked Jamaican honeymoon. The set-up is deliciously absurd: a journalist agrees to pose as her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend for a family job interview, but when her biting wit backfires, she’s whisked into a week-long charade that spirals into territory neither expected. Neither the protagonist nor the listener sees the emotional detours coming, and Cole balances brisk banter with moments of genuine warmth, making this feel less like a meet-cute and more like a meet-cringe that somehow works. The tropical backdrop isn’t just window dressing; it’s an active force, turning sultry air and rum fumes into a pressure cooker for messy confessions and flirtatious sparring. What makes this audiobook stand out is its chemistry-heavy dialogue, delivered with razor-edged timing by Ramona Radcliff. Her narration crackles with the protagonist’s sarcastic edge while Julio Maxwell’s Landon is all smoldering charm, their voices clashing and syncing like a well-rehearsed improv duo. The pacing holds steady—no meandering subplots—just a relentless push toward the inevitable late-night talk on the beach that will either ruin everything or fix everything.