The Wedding Date
- Jasmine Guillory
- Albany, WA
- March 3, 2023
GOODREADS BOOK BLURB:
A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in a fun and flirty debut novel.
Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn’t normally do. But there’s something about Drew Nichols that’s too hard to resist.
On the eve of his ex’s wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend…
After Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible, Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she’s the mayor’s chief of staff. Too bad they can’t stop thinking about the other…
They’re just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long distance dating disaster of the century–or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want…
Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn’t normally do. But there’s something about Drew Nichols that’s too hard to resist.
On the eve of his ex’s wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend…
After Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible, Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she’s the mayor’s chief of staff. Too bad they can’t stop thinking about the other…
They’re just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long distance dating disaster of the century–or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want…
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FIRST WORDS:
Alexa Monroe walked into the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco that Thursday night wearing her favorite red heels, feeling jittery from coffee, and carrying a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne in her purse.
MY REVIEW:
average:
☆☆☆☆☆ 3/5
It’s hard to describe The Wedding Date as anything other than average – it’s the perfect three-star romance.
It’s possible that The Wedding Date didn’t work because Guillory is not a good match for me. I found the conversations between the love interests to be stilted, the way the characters’ bodies are described was clunky and awkward, and the smut was… not good. Every scene felt like a timid replay of the last, and it was like spying on two boring people pretending to like each other.
I wanted to like The Wedding Date, mainly because it’s the start of a relatively long series, but it felt like a paint-by-numbers of what a contemporary romance should be. Lots of ‘insert white privilege’ followed by ‘we don’t need to talk about what this relationship is because it’s casual’ with a little ‘body positivity quickly overwhelmed by insecurities’ to round it out.
I’m going to give The Proposal a chance – mostly because it’s an interesting premise, but also because Carlos was a much more mature and emotionally aware character than Drew. But it needs to be excellent to make me want to commit to a six-book series after the extremely average The Wedding Date.
It’s possible that The Wedding Date didn’t work because Guillory is not a good match for me. I found the conversations between the love interests to be stilted, the way the characters’ bodies are described was clunky and awkward, and the smut was… not good. Every scene felt like a timid replay of the last, and it was like spying on two boring people pretending to like each other.
I wanted to like The Wedding Date, mainly because it’s the start of a relatively long series, but it felt like a paint-by-numbers of what a contemporary romance should be. Lots of ‘insert white privilege’ followed by ‘we don’t need to talk about what this relationship is because it’s casual’ with a little ‘body positivity quickly overwhelmed by insecurities’ to round it out.
I’m going to give The Proposal a chance – mostly because it’s an interesting premise, but also because Carlos was a much more mature and emotionally aware character than Drew. But it needs to be excellent to make me want to commit to a six-book series after the extremely average The Wedding Date.
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