About the Book
Carey Logan was the art world’s genius wild child.
FAKE
I was a no-name painter clawing my way up behind her.
LIKE
When Carey died, she left a space that couldn’t be filled. Except, maybe, by
ME
After a fire rips through her loft, destroying the seven billboard-size paintings meant for her first major exhibition, a young painter is left with an impossible task: recreate the lost artworks in just three months without getting caught – or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into Pine City, an exclusive retreat in upstate New York notorious for three things: outrageous revelries, glamorous artists, and the sparkling black lake where brilliant prodigy Carey Logan drowned herself.
Taking up residence in Carey’s former studio, the painter works with obsessive, delirious focus. But when she begins to uncover strange secrets at Pine City and falls hard for Carey’s mysterious boyfriend, a single thought shadows her every move: What really happened to Carey Logan?
My Review
Fake Like Me was a story I struggled to get invested in from the beginning. I will say I don’t know much about the art world – nor am I particularly interested in it – but the synopsis sounded so intriguing that I accepted a review copy. From finding the main character (unnamed) unrelatable to the idea behind recreating her paintings to the questionable Pine City, I wasn’t able to stay invested in this novel. I did start speedreading around the 25% mark on my Kindle, otherwise I was afraid I would give up on it, which I don’t enjoy doing, and it does appear the ending (the last 15% or so) did get interesting. I wish it was enough to give a better review here, but the final few chapters didn’t make up for the majority of the book being off the mark for me.
2 stars
