Olive saves a passenger during a flight despite her own fear of flying. The viral attention gives pilot Stella an idea: a fake relationship could help convince airline executives to recognize her for promotion. Macmillan
The publicity scheme shares space with grief and family strain. Publishers Weekly enjoys the balance, but DeWinter thinks competing plots weaken the romantic focus. Publishers Weekly Queerbrary
Try it for sapphic fake dating tied to career recognition and serious family feeling; expect a busier emotional story than its travel premise alone suggests.
Provisional Eikna score: 3.6/5. Four core dimensions cover 85% of the quality weight. Ending satisfaction and reread appeal remain unscored; heat is excluded. Researched editorial assessment; no firsthand reading claimed. Evidence confidence: moderate.
A numeric heat level has not been established. Read the review’s heat and content discussion for attributed descriptions before choosing. An unknown level is not a closed-door or no-spice promise.
The heat-level guide explains detail and frequency; the glossary entry for spice separates sexual content from quality.
The romantic outcome is not established in this summary. A romance label does not independently confirm an ending. Consult the discussion before choosing if closure is essential.
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| Title | Fly with Me |
|---|---|
| Author | Andie Burke |
| Inspected edition | St. Martin’s Griffin · ebook |
| Publication scope | 2023-09-05 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781250886385 |
| Edition page count | Not established |
The author or publisher evidence identifies the work. Publication dates refer to the stated edition or release scope, not automatically the first appearance of the story. Unknown identifiers and formats are left open.
Macmillan explicitly makes Stella’s promotion campaign the reason for the couple’s public ruse. Macmillan
The audience is corporate, so the performance connects intimacy to institutional decisions rather than merely appeasing relatives.
Publishers Weekly values lovingly depicted quirks, playful sex and tension between the fiction and genuine enjoyment. Publishers Weekly
The appealing question is what happens when the women no longer need an audience to enjoy being together.
Paul values the supporting cast and the mixture of heartbreak, humor and warmth; her personal connection to Burke is disclosed. Jaclyn Paul
Her interpretation of neurodivergence is reader inference, not an established diagnosis, and should be understood on that basis.
DeWinter praises medical descriptions but finds developmental editing problems and too many competing subplots. Queerbrary
The disagreement matters if you need romantic progression to remain dominant even while a book handles substantial family material.
Publishers Weekly explicitly describes sex scenes as playful and intense. Numeric heat remains unknown. Publishers Weekly
Inspected criticism reports panic and flight fear, a critically ill brother, strained family relationships and an intrusive former partner. Notes are incomplete. Jaclyn Paul Queerbrary
Try it for sapphic fake dating tied to career recognition and serious family feeling; expect a busier emotional story than its travel premise alone suggests.
The sources disagree or qualify their praise in specific ways discussed above. Their judgments remain attributed to individual critics; this selection is not a survey of all readers.
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Debut central-couple romance. Macmillan’s inspected ebook is dated September 5, 2023, ISBN 9781250886385. Macmillan
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Quality scale: 1 substantial weaknesses; 2 weaknesses outweigh strengths; 3 mixed; 4 strengths outweigh limitations; 5 exceptional sustained strengths. Half points are allowed. Weights: romance 30%, characters 20%, writing 20%, emotional impact 15%, ending satisfaction 10%, reread appeal 5%. A provisional overall score divides the supported weighted sum by its supported weight and rounds once to one decimal. Heat is descriptive and excluded. These scores express the evidence-based judgment explained in this review.
Public performance becomes private enjoyment
Provisional dimension score: 3.5/5.
Distinct leads with disputed balance
Provisional dimension score: 3.5/5.
Briskness versus editing concerns
Provisional dimension score: 3.5/5.
Joy shares space with grief
Provisional dimension score: 4/5.
Descriptive content, unscored
Outcome is separate from satisfaction
No documented editorial rereading
Airline executives and the publicity audience. Primary premise
The sections above explain how the original arrangement changes as attraction grows and what external pressure remains.
This is a researched editorial assessment based on named completed-reading criticism. Ending satisfaction and reread appeal remain unscored.
Compare professional access and private vulnerability in a sports workplace rather than an airline publicity scheme.
Try a sapphic relationship where public commitments and private attraction carry different consequences.
Compare a romance balancing anxious attachment, adult responsibilities and a public-facing social setting.
The fake dating guide includes this book among other choices. Compare those options if its premise appeals but a limitation gives you pause. The Explore the romance trope guide explains the surrounding reading route and what to check before choosing.
Try it for sapphic fake dating tied to career recognition and serious family feeling; expect a busier emotional story than its travel premise alone suggests. Try it for sapphic fake dating tied to career recognition and serious family feeling; expect a busier emotional story than its travel premise alone suggests.
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Checked October 6, 2026. The How this assessment was researched preserves attributions and research limits. Unknown details do not establish absence. Purchasing links use our account.
Pan Macmillan Australia: The book-specific Category field explicitly lists Adult & Contemporary Romance. Classification verified; checked 2026-10-07.
Macmillan / St. Martin’s Griffin: Copilot Stella Soriano asks ER nurse Olive Murphy to be her fake girlfriend after Olive’s airborne rescue goes viral and helps airline sales. Stella hopes the public association will win attention from airline executives who overlook her for promotion; Olive agrees the arrangement could benefit her too. Pretence mechanism verified; checked 2026-10-07.
The contemporary fake-dating collection compares this arrangement with family expectations, career needs, publicity and inheritance, so you can choose the reason for pretending you want to read about.