One Week Girlfriend (One Week Girlfriend, #1)

by Monica Murphy

[Leah]

I heart New Adult books so much, so when I spotted Monica Murphy’s novel One Week Girlfriend on Amazon when it was the Kindle Daily Deal, I bought it immediately. For 99p you can’t go wrong with any kind of book – it’s almost always a good chance for me to be introduced to a new author, and it’s even better when I know that author has other fabulous books waiting to be discovered! One Week Girlfriend is the first in a series of four books (Second Chance Girlfriend, Three Broken Promises, and Four Years Later). Which basically meant that when I read One Week Girlfriend I had three more books waiting, yay! And since I LOVED One Week Girlfriend, well, colour me happy (although I do have to wait for books 3 and 4 but that’s OK).

I was really excited to start reading One Week Girlfriend because the synopsis is amazing. Drew Callahan needs a buffer. He needs a fake girlfriend to come home with him for Thanksgiving to keep him out of trouble with his dad and step-mother, Adele. Fable needs money. She’s looking after her brother while her dead-beat Mom spends more time drinking and spending time with loser boyfriends and knows that the promise of $3000 will see and her brother through for a couple of months. So when Drew asks Fable to be his fake girlfriend for a week, she agrees. The last thing she expects though is to fall for Drew for real, but he’s hiding so many secrets and his family are so messed up, Fable isn’t entirely sure what she’s letting herself in for, but she’s willing to take the risk…

I really, really enjoyed One Week Girlfriend. Every time I picked it up, I never wanted to put it down and it was disappointing every time I had to, because y’know I have to work. But I was entirely taken with Drew and Fable’s story. Sure, it’s a bit soap-operaish, especially because I knew exactly what was coming in regards to Drew and his secrets. Some people will question it, and say it’s perhaps farfetched, but I really enjoyed it, despite knowing what was coming. I loved how they basically clicked from the word go. From that meeting outside the bar where Fable works. It just seemed right. Throughout the novel, Fable says that she thinks she and Drew were meant to meet, and that shines through in the novel. It’s like, as soon as they met, boom!!! – how hadn’t they already met before? They were clearly soulmates and it leapt from the page.

I just adored the book! It took me almost a week to read, but if I’d had the time I’d have completed it in just the one sitting. It was THAT good. So good, in fact, that I’ve gone and bought Second Chance Boyfriend already and plan to read it next, even though I’ve got tons of books to read already. I’m also planning to pre-order books 3 and 4, because I’m already super invested in this series already. I already want to know if Fable and Drew manage to sort out all their issues and get their happy ending, despite so many conflicts and problems, and stuff. Monica Murphy is a wonderful writer and I loved that she set the book from both Drew and Fable’s perspective, I loved seeing how they were both feeling at any one time. I totally recommend the book, it’s a fantastic start to a fantastic new series and I can’t wait to read more!