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Average rating3.4
A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in this fun and flirty multicultural romance debut by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory—author of the Resse Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick The Proposal. THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER #5 LibraryReads Pick “A swoony rom-com brimming with humor and charm.”—Entertainment Weekly (The Must List) “What a charming, warm, sexy gem of a novel....One of the best books I've read in a while.”—Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger 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.... One of... Entertainment Weekly’s “12 Romances for V-Day” • Cosmopolitan’s “2018 Anticipated Reads” • Elle’s “2018 Must Reads” • Harpers Bazaar’s “New January Must Reads” • The Fug Girls’ “Best Books of the Year” • Elle UK’s “Books to Get You Through 2018” • Nylon’s “January Must Reads” • Hello Giggles’ “New Release Recs” • Electric Lit’s “Books by WoC to Read in 2018” • Bitch Media’s “2018 Must Reads” • BookBub’s “2018 Romance Must Reads” • Bookriot’s “Must Read 2018 January Releases” • RetailMeNot’s “2018 Must Reads”
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6 primary booksThe Wedding Date is a 6-book series with 6 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Jasmine Guillory.
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It's really more of a 3.5 stars. I think this quote from Adam Sandler's master opus, The Wedding Singer sums it up best...
“You can't expect him to live forever with his sister and the nipple twisting that goes on there.”
I recommend this chick lit book for it's humor, likability of characters and the issues it presented. Drew and Alexa meet while stuck in a hotel elevator. They had such a great “connection” that he invited her to be his plus 1 at a wedding he was attending that weekend in the same hotel. She agreed on the spur of the moment and thus began a romance neither was planning on. She lived in San Francisco and he lived in Los Angeles. She was black and he was white. Both busy professional lives (politics and medicine). Alexa didn't date much and Drew was a serial breaker upper as he was not the marrying kind. There is good dialogue between the principals and their “persons” throughout as well as the dialogue each of them had with themselves regarding their growing attraction for each other. A very modern and enjoyable read.
(Full disclosure: the author is a friend.) This book is so much fun, like a perfect Netflix rom-com in written form (the best recent rom-coms I've seen were on Netflix, that is completely a compliment). I loved how Alexa had a job that mattered to her just as much as Drew's and I loved that the climactic scene took all that into account. So good, so satisfying, fizzy and fun.