The Wedding Date

Score: 4/5 Bookmarks

The Wedding Date was Jasmine Guillory’s debut novel and a thoroughly enjoyable read. It was light, fun, and very flirty. When you meet the man of your dreams in an elevator and agree to be his fake girlfriend for a wedding, what can possibly go wrong?

The story is a tiny bit predictable, but not in a bad way. More in the way that you can guess what’s going to happen but you really hope it’s all going to work out for the main characters. Guillory definitely keeps you turning the pages and routing for the strong, black, female lead all the way through.

Jasmine’s next book The Proposal has been getting a lot of press the last few months and is an equally fun read, although I might have actually enjoyed The Wedding Date slightly more.

And if you’re already a Guillory fan, you’ll be excited to know that her next book, The Wedding Party comes out on July 16! I’m reading it now, so stay tuned for a review of that one.

Synopsis:

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...