The Faker Rulebook

Boyfriend Rules, Book 1

By: Baylin Crow

Narrated by: Iggy Toma

The Faker Rulebook: A perfect guide to a successful fake relationship with your straight best friend.

Noah: Rook Oliveira stumbled into my life when I was eleven years old. Being the scrawny new kid at school with a mouth full of braces, I never expected to become unlikely best friends with the most popular boy in seventh grade.

At eighteen, I gathered the courage to tell him I was gay and admitted I'd never kissed a guy. He offered to be my first. Straight or not, that kiss had burned with nearly tangible fire and tattooed the moment on my heart. I've spent the last four years trying to forget it.

Now we're seniors in college, and I've learned why secret relationships are a bad idea.

My brother is getting married, and my cheating ex is the best man. Honestly, Rook is more upset about it than I am. He comes up with this crazy plan to be my fake boyfriend for the week of the wedding.

If we're doing this, then we need to set some rules. Between fake kisses and sharing a bed, things could get messy. Because I'm in love with my best friend—and he has no idea. The rules are simple. I never expected Rook to be the one that started breaking them.

Contains mature themes.

©2021 Baylin Crow (P)2023 Tantor

💙🔥

There's only 1 complaint. It was not long enough. Story was short, sweet and sexy. Iggy you were amazing as always.

Adorable

I love Iggy! He doesn’t have your standard voice and I love it. I thought this was a short sweet story. Some parts were slightly irritating or slight cringe worthy, no big deal but I’m glad that I found this 1.

I loved it.

This reminded me why I fell in love with audiobooks in this genre. Baylin Crow delivers fun, emotional, and spicy romance, and Iggy Toma’s narration is voice acting at its best — engaging, expressive, and full of heart. The story leans into familiar tropes, but it’s so well done it feels like magic. This was comfort romance done right. My only wish is that it had been dual narration, which would have made it absolutely perfect.

Cute Story!

Very cute story. I really love a best friends to try love trope and I also love a fake boyfriend to real boyfriend trope, and this story combined the two very well. I loved all the history we got between Noah and Rook. A lot of the times when these character have a friendship that goes back to when they were kids it’s often times heavily hinted to or flashes back a few lines here or there but this one gave us quite a bit of story from the past which I enjoyed. My only complaint is it’s too short, and I thought there could have been more of the the fake boyfriend rouse playing out. Still it was an entertaining story and Iggy Toma did a great job narrating. He is quickly becoming one of my favorites.

Great story

I loved both of these characters. And the narrator is absolutely one of my favorites.