REVIEW: Heartsmashed by Brooke Blaine (Hate to Love You #2)

- June 11, 2026

HEARTSMASHED

Hate to Love You - Book Two

by Brooke Blaine

Release Date: June 11, 2026

Review

Okay, sure, Beckett pretends to be someone else, which is wrong, but also….swoon!! Cuz, darn it, he just wanted to make things better for Sawyer.

Sawyer, who was reeling from a breakup and would have to see his ex on the arm of another for an entire week. But his fake boyfriend is more real than his ex ever was; the connection between them cannot be denied.

Perhaps a little lie isn’t so bad after all.

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Synopsis

He hired a fake boyfriend for the weekend.

The man who showed up wasn’t the escort.

Sawyer Montgomery spends his nights broadcasting heartbreak on his prime-time radio show—spinning sad songs, giving terrible love advice, and pretending he’s totally over the ex who shattered his heart.

(Spoiler: he’s not.)

But when he needs a fake boyfriend to survive a weeklong family celebration with that very ex, hiring an escort seems like the perfect solution.

Simple. Efficient. No emotions required.

The only problem?

The man he mistakes for the escort… isn’t one.

Beckett Calder walks into the hotel lounge expecting to meet his blind date. Instead, he finds Sawyer—a romantic disaster who clearly thinks Beckett is the escort he hired.

Beckett should correct the misunderstanding.

He should walk away.

(Spoiler: he doesn’t.)

Because there’s something about Sawyer—maybe it’s the sarcasm, the bruised heart, or the way he looks like he could really use someone on his side—that makes Beckett say yes.

Now he’s pretending to be Sawyer’s devoted boyfriend.

For an entire week.

Which would be manageable…if the chemistry between them didn’t feel so dangerously real.

Because the longer they pretend, the harder it becomes to remember it’s all an act.

And when the week ends, Beckett might be the one mistake Sawyer never wants to stop making.

About Brooke Blaine

Brooke Blaine is a USA Today Bestselling Author best known for writing romantic comedy and M/M romance. Her novels lead with humor and heart, but Brooke never shies away from throwing in something extra naughty that will scandalize her conservative Southern family for life (bless their hearts).

She’s a choc-o-holic, lives for eighties bands (which means she thinks guyliner is totally underrated), believes it’s always wine o’clock, and lives with the coolest cat on the planet—her Ragdoll/Maine Coon mix, Jackson Agador Spartacus.

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