OK fine, Ainslie Paton can take all my money. I've had nothing but positive experiences with her books, but I think Fool Me Forever is my favorite from her. The Confidence Games series has been mindblowing, romantic and immensely fun to read.

Fool Me Forever picks up where One Night Wife ended, told from the perspectives of Lenny Bradshaw, partner and friend to Fin, and Halsey Sherwood, brother of Cal. Lenny is understandably furious at the Sherwoods and Fin for their scam, even more so because her father was recently arrested for pulling something similar. She wanted nothing to do with that family, so when Halsey drops on her doorstep with an offer for help with her charity's finances, she was quite acerbic towards him. I liked Lenny a lot. She was someone who stood her ground and refused to allow all the crappy recent events in her life to thwart her goals. She was quite admirable with her no-nonsense attitude and her headstrong personality. She wasn't all rough and cold as I am making her sound in this review though. Readers will get to see a gentler and more compassionate side of her surface as the book progressed, especially around her handful of a teenage sister. Speaking of the teenage sister, Mal was a treat. She was dealing with the typical teenage angst and was kind of a pain in the butt, but she made me laugh at her antics. Halsey too, I just absolutely adored. Despite being a rich-people scammer, he was a gentleman - he was kind and all kinds of attentive. I very much had a soft spot for Halsey and I couldn't help but swoon at how patient and devoted he was towards Lenny. I was also low-key very very attracted to the ingenious ways he manipulated the filthy rich folks to give up their money without them ever suspecting a thing. I need to learn a thing or two from Halsey ...

The main reason I can't get enough of Ainslie Paton's books is her romances. There is just something about them! She is just brilliantly deft at writing couples who have a ton of chemistry together. Lenny and Halsey just sparked off the pages of Fool Me Forever. I devoured this romance because of how good these two were together. At first, Lenny wanted nothing to do with Halsey, but she can't help but give in to the strong attraction between them when the two of the partner up to take down a corrupt prime minister. It made me sigh in happiness to watch them open up to each other. I swear these two have to be one of the softest couples I've ever come across and now all I want is more soft couples in my romance books. As with One Night Wife, I found the plot-line revolving around the scam to be addicting. I couldn't look away from it as everything came crashing down for the corrupt prime minister, and I found myself cheering on Halsey even though yes, his acts could be considered criminal. Who cares about morality in fiction though, especially if they are taking down gross people in the first place? Not this girl! We also get to see more of the Sherwoods and I'm obsessed with this family. Can we please get a Mama Sherwood book? She has got to be my favorite secondary character in this series!

Fool Me Forever was another entertaining and lovely romance from Ainslie Paton that I just pretty much devoured. Pick up her books, friends. You won't regret it!

It's been said that you can read this book as a standalone, but I definitely would not delve into it without reading the first book in the series first. From the start, the reader is dropped into a fairly tense conversation between the two MCs and if you didn't read the first book you would wonder why there is so much animosity.

I didn't love either of the MC's and I didn't like their chemistry together at all. Their conversations were weird and unnatural and their reactions around one another were TOO dramatic. It was like a soap opera where everything is taken to the nth degree for the sake of dramatics.

I'm sure a lot of people will love this book, but I couldn't get past the characters and their strange attitudes and behavior.

4.5 Stars

We all remember Lenny and Halsey from the first book - BUT you don't have to have read it - these two are just the best friends and siblings from book #1. But they also work in the same field. Lenny is running her charity and Halsey is the behind-the-desk finance guy of his con-family's 'empire'. Lenny hates Halsey after everything that happened in book #1, but he needs to be there for her and help with the finances of the charity, or she might go to jail - and his brother might kill him for not protecting his new sister-in-law's best friend.

Let the fun times begin, because while there are sparks flying between them - it's more arguments and hate that's flying for now ....

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Well... that was adorable. I really loved those two!

There's this huge attraction on both sides. And if it was up to Halsey ... he would be very interested in something serious. He hasn't been interested in anyone in forever! But Lenny is so mad at him and his criminal family. And she's mad at everyone else too. After her dad went to jail for swindling all these people, Lenny lost her standing in the rich community she needs for her donations.

Halsey can help her, but she just doesn't trust him - yet.

Soooo adorable how they fight and argue and flirt.

I loved reading about their fight against the bad people and at the same time juggling their complicated families and their growing feelings towards each other. Loved it!

Can't wait to read Zeke's story!

FOOL ME FOREVER was such an adorable and exciting and funny love story! Run to your nearest amazon for your own Paul-Newman-Lookalike-Halsey! This one is mine!!

Just like with her other books, some readers might find Ainslie's writing style a bit complicated. Me too. I sometimes have no idea what a sentence wants to tell me. But I still love reading her books! ☺

his is the second book in her modern day Robin Hood series The Confidence Game. This time we get the shy, bookish hero and the only woman who knows he is a con and doesn't want to have anything to do with him.

There is great chemistry between the MCs but she carries lots of baggage because of her family and his family and what they do/want in life. There is a a strong conflict at the heart of the story which leads to bot MCs reevaluating their principles and core values. I loved how life is shown to be complex and sometimes you are faced with impossible choices. This story shows how love can make two people happy being together and what they have to sacrifice to make things work between them.

It's an escapist fun kind of story, yet very real about relationships both love and family ones, and the choices we make that define who we are.

"Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review."

Loved this book very much. It had just enough sweet romance and the storyline was great! I highly recommend!

I really wanted to like this book, but couldn't. The plot was a little too fantastical; it felt like I was reading an Ocean's 11 movie. The book also was slow for me. I almost gave up at the 50% mark because all the MCs did was awkwardly flirt with Lennie always mad at Halsey and Halsey feeling bad. I just started skimming the book after that because I kept hoping it'd grab my interest. Sadly it did not.

Lenore Bradshaw's charity is mixed up in a world-class scandal with donations gone missing. Handsome con artist Halsey Sherwood suggests they work together to get the money back. But there's no way she can trust a proven liar and thief.Even if his generous and sweet nature is stealing her heart, and there may be some swooning happening.When I started reading I couldn't put it down.Ainslie Paton is magnifysent writer.I cannot wait to read more of there books.Keep up the great work.You should definitely read this book.Can't wait for the next book.