Wedding Date

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Jasmine Guillory: Wedding Date (2019, Penguin Publishing Group)

352 pages

English language

Published 2019 by Penguin Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-593-09839-4
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3 stars (1 review)

"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. From the best man's toast to the bouquet toss, Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible. But before they know it, 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 …

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A Netflix series on the page, whatever that means

3 stars

This is the first romance novel marketed as such that I ever read. The notion that marriage is the hallmark of successful love gets on my nerves. Still, I couldn't in good conscience giving it less than three stars, because I did enjoy reading it. It felt very much like watching an American TV series: witty characters with truly good hearts, high disposable incomes, constantly drinking coffee in take-away-cups and eating doughnuts. Engaging dialogues, identity politics, and frequent and 'didactic' nods to racial politics and safe sex behaviours. And a lot, a lot of drama around having feelings, not having feelings, and having feelings about having or not having feelings. The sex scenes are pretty sexy. Sometimes that's just what you want.

Subjects

  • Fiction, general
  • Dating (social customs), fiction