A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year

A Pair of Novellas for the February Holidays

A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year by Jackie Lau

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January 31, 2022 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

When I read Donut Fall in Love two weeks ago I was reminded almost viscerally of two of Jackie Lau’s novellas from her Holidays with the Wongs series. The chemistry between Donut’s Ryan and Lindsay had the same sort of feeling that A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year’s Zach and Jo did, and it made me want to revisit them, and with Chinese New Year this week (February 1st) I needed no further inducement to pick it back up and give myself a Monday […]

Fake dating, friends to lovers and a hilarious game of pictionary

A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year by Jackie Lau

February 23, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

After the active interference of his parents and grandparents with the matchmaking extravaganza over Thanksgiving, Zack Wong is very worried that something similar will be repeated for Chinese New Year, especially since two of his brothers now have girlfriends, and the family seem determined that all four Wong children end up in happy couples. To make sure his family can’t meddle in his personal life a second time, he talks his good friend, Jo MacGregor, into posing as his fake girlfriend. They even go on a […]

Two Great Tropes in One

A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year by Jackie Lau

December 10, 2019 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Jackie Lau’s A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year is the third in her quartet of small town holiday romances, Holidays with the Wongs. Lau is one of the authors I discovered this year via Twitter and she has become one of my comfort reads. I have yet to dislike one of her books, and I found this one charming, and yes, comfortable. After being traumatized with a surprise blind date in A Match Made for Thanksgiving, Zach Wong is worried his mother and grandmother will try […]

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