Lawyer Lina and bartender Brown married in the courtyard of their apartment building during the pandemic. Now, two years later, their friend Freddie can’t afford to keep the building as affordable housing and is selling up to a developer. And Lina and Brown’s marriage is over.
But with Lina’s best friend, Mara, visiting from out of town, Lina convinces Brown to keep their breakup a secret just for her overnight stay. However, due to their gang getting involved in a campaign to challenge the developer’s plans, Lina and Brown have to pretend they are still together for much longer than that.
If you are planning to pick up this book because its title brings back good memories of the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, then I have to tell you this has none of the humour, sass or romance of that rom-com. Freddie was the only shining light in this pointless story. But I will give it an extra point for the cutesy cover and for the fact it wasn’t as terrible as the author’s debut.
Bea has broken up with her boyfriend when she finds out that she’s won a competition to have her dream wedding staged. But instead of telling the event planner the truth, she goes ahead with plans for a big summer wedding.
All she needs to do now is find the groom! Maybe her smooth colleague Andrew will be the one.
The premise had potential to be a real amusing story of a bride desperately hunting for a fiance while hiding the secret from her wedding planners. I don’t know what happened between the pitch and the final product but the execution of this was completely off.
Bea was a horrible character – and not in a good, entertaining way either. She was selfish, self-absorbed, absurd; her love interest was similarly annoying; her job wasn’t particularly interesting; and the other guy was bland as. Not worth RSVPing for this wedding.
