Faking It

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.
If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Gwen Goodnight's motto

A romantic comedy by Jennifer Crusie about the Goodnight family and Davy Dempsey (who we met in Welcome to Temptation). Tilda is in the closet trying to steal back a painting that shouldn't have been sold from her family's gallery, and Davy is in the closet trying to steal back the money Clea earlier stole from him. Intrigued, Davy decides to help Tilda steal back the rest of the paintings and help her bring back the gallery to its former glory. Helping them is Tilda's family and Davy's friend Simon, rounding out a colorful cast of characters.


Tropes used in Faking It include:
  • Accidental Public Confession: Mason, the public being the FBI.
  • Bad Liar: Davy usually realizes when Tilda is about to lie.
  • Betty and Veronica: Discussed using the terms muffin (Betty) and doughnut (Veronica). The doughnut is exciting and fun and gorgeous, whereas the muffin just kinds of sit there, "lumpy, looking alike, no chocolate frosting." But while the doughnut is good for a one night stand, its sticky and no longer crispy the next morning. Muffins, however, taste better the next day, and are there for the long haul.

Davy: What's Simon?
Nadine: Doughnut. With sprinkles.

He looked closer and saw a naked Adam and a naked Eve standing under a spreading cross-stitch tree surrounded by tiny animals with tiny teeth, and under them a verse: When Eve ate the apple/Her knowledge increased/But God liked dumb women/So Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work. Remember to be nice to Gwennie, he thought.

  • The Reveal: Though the audience knows, its a shock to Davy to find out Tilda is Scarlet.
    • Simon finding out Louise is really Eve.
  • Romantic Comedy: An excellent example of it.
  • Saying Too Much: Mason again.