The Wedding Date
Jasmine Guillory
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…
Genres: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Romance
Alexa is on the way to visit her sister when the elevator get’s stuck, trapping her with the very cute and very flirty pediatric surgeon, Drew Nichols, who is in town for an ex’s wedding. They instantly hit it off and somehow Alexa finds herself agreeing to go to the wedding as Drew’s date…as his girlfriend, actually. Stepping outside of her comfort zone as the straight-edge, conservative chief of staff to the mayor, Alexa buys a hot dress and prepares to have a fun, fling weekend before she heads back to Berkeley and Drew goes home to LA.
After having way more fun than they thought they’d have, Drew offers his frequent flyer miles to Alexa and invites her to spend the following weekend in LA with him. Even though it was supposed to just be a weekend fling, Alexa agrees and again they have a great time. Suddenly, what started as a fake date morphs into a long-distance relationship…but is it more than either of them can handle?
I won this book after giving my first impression of the first 40 or so pages on Bookish First. I have to say I was immediately drawn in to the story of Alexa and Drew. Who doesn’t love a fake first date story? The characters weren’t annoying or unbelievable in their flirting with each other either.
This is a quick read that I finished in one night. Their relationship progresses rather quickly and comes to the expected climax – they live too far apart, they both have high-powered jobs, he’s a playboy, it’ll never work out [insert cliché tension here]. I hate when the “fight scene” in books or even movies is too long and drawn out, but luckily, this one was perfect. It’s all resolved pretty quickly and in a sweet way. This is definitely one of those books you can turn to when you’re in a reading slump or if you’re looking for something light and fun to read. A great beach read.
This is a debut novel for Ms. Guillory and it does not disappoint. I’ll definitely look for more of her works in the future.
*Thank you to Bookish First and Berkley Publishing Co. for providing an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
My Rating: 4 Stars
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