Lindas Book Obsession Reviews “The Proposal” by Jasmine Guillory

Jasmine Guillory, Author of “The Proposal” has written an entertaining, enjoyable, and witty novel. The Genres for “The Proposal” are Fiction, Women’s Fiction and Romance.The author describes her characters as each having their own set of problems and insecurities.

Nicole Patterson, a writer is a lucky lady to have great friends, and the opportunity to work from home on many of her stories. She goes to a Dodger’s Game with her boyfriend, who shocks her with his proposal for marriage on the public billboard. Nicole has been dating her boyfriend a very short time, and is not ready for this. Publicly, Nicole says “No” as her boyfriend is on bent knee with the ring. Sadly he misspelled her name on the board.

As the media and cameras head over to Nicole, Carlos Ibarra, a physician with his sister come to Nicole’s rescue by pretending that they know her. Nicole is very appreciate, and offers to first buy Carlos a drink, and then dinner. Nik’s friends feel that a rebound relationship with Carlos is just the thing that Nicole needs. After all, Carlos is a single, handsome doctor, who wouldn’t want a serious relationship. Or would he?

I appreciate that Jasmine Guillory brings up women taking self-defense classes to protect themselves. The author also discusses the importance of self worth and self respect. I would recommend this story for those readers that like an easy, delightful story. I received an ARC from NetGalley for my honest review.

I very much enjoyed The Wedding Date and was looking forward to this book!

The beginning scenes/proposal at the stadium was honestly just SO UNCOMFORTABLE. It's an actual nightmare to have anyone go through that, and I would not have guessed this could be a successful beginning of a romance. However, there's a lot to like in this story. I especially like how Carlos and Nik work through their own pasts in order to find love together.

I loved "The Proposal" by Jasmine Guillory. I couldn't put it down! It was a refreshing take on the standard "knight in shining armor" tale with plenty of hilarity and relatable experiences from all the characters. The female characters were certainly strong and well developed and made it very clear they did not particularly need the men in their life, but allowed them in by choice. I enjoyed the bi-racial relationship aspect which wasn't made overly obvious, but the characters brought it up in believable moments that helps the reader understand that mixed race couples still aren't generally "accepted" in pop culture. Being in a bi-racial relationship myself, I could understand some of what the characters were feeling in that aspect.

I absolutely LOVED The Wedding Date, Jasmine Guillory's debut novel. I was excited to jump into a story about Carlos, the best friend from from the previous story. He was being set up to be the nice guy and we just don't see that as often as I would like in romance novels. Carlos definitely lived up to the good guy persona he was giving off. Who does love a guy who likes to cook, takes care of his family, and runs a teen clinic at a hospital? That's a prime catch right there.
We meet Nik while she's involved in the most embarrassing moment of her life...being proposed to, on a jumbotron, by a guy she doesn't even like! Yikes! Carlos and his sister, Angie step into save Nik and the story takes off from there.
Neither Carlos and Nik feign not wanting a relationship, but they don't seem to realize they are already in one. That seemed to be part of the reason this story never took off for me. In the beginning, I thought Carlos and Nik had a ton of chemistry. I even had butterflies during their first kiss. But then it just fell flat for me. It was just a story of two people who liked sleeping together and their day to day lives.
I'm the first girl to tell you that I don't like a ton of angst or over the top drama in a book. But you gotta give a girl something. And when we finally got it? Well, it just seemed out of character for both characters. This is a story that just happened. I enjoyed it, but there isn't much to say about it.

This one really missed the mark for me. The base of the storyline felt incredibly similar to Guillory's first book, The Wedding Date. i.e.: Two people sleeping together, no strings attached. I thought it’d be a bit more different but it kind of felt like the same story in many ways.

For me, the writing also wasn’t great. Especially at the beginning, a lot of the dialogue between the characters was just a recap of what we had just read. It felt incredibly repetitive to me and I think it could have benefitted from a much heavier editing hand. Because of this, I ended up skimming quite a bit. There were also some side stories that I didn’t understand how they added to the main story. They didn’t feel significant and I think they could have been edited down.

The main conflict between Carlos and Nikole also didn’t seem believable. I felt like Carlos wouldn’t have reacted the way he did. How he was portrayed up until that point didn’t foreshadow that he would react this way so it felt out of the blue.

I’m not sure if this is just the sophomore slump and Guillory’s third book will be better, or if this is indicative of her writing ability. I’ve seen a lot of praise for the book, so I’m probably in the minority here. I do wish I felt differently about it because we all know the publishing scene (especially in the romance genre) needs more books written by people of color and books with more diverse characters. Sadly, in the end, this one just wasn’t for me.

Sweet, sizzling, and modern—The Proposal is a sure-fire hit in the women’s fiction and romance worlds this year! It starts with a meet-cute, as many good love stories do. Only, is it still a meet-cute if our protagonist meets her beau by being horrifyingly and publicly embarrassed by her current love interest??? More like a meet-nightmare! From the opening chapter, you will want to know more about Nik and what happens to her after the nightmare of all nightmare dates!

About the Book

Writer and feminist Nik Paterson is at a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend Fisher and some of his friends. Nik knows Fisher is not the one (he has a man bun and doesn’t eat carbs for goodness sake), but the physical chemistry is fantastic and she isn’t in danger of getting emotionally attached.

So no one is more surprised than Nik when she looks up from her phone to find herself broadcast on the jumbo screen in the stadium and Fisher down on one knee proposing. He can’t be serious, Nik thinks to herself. But he is. And when Nik tries to subtly tell him it won’t happen, he storms off with his friends.

Finding herself in the middle of the public eye, with tens of thousands of fans staring and a camera crew in her face, Nik doesn’t know how to escape. Until sexy doctor Carlos from a few rows back rushes in to rescue her.

What unfolds is a public humiliation that Nik is unprepared for, and an unlikely ally. Over some fun, casual non-dates and some steamy nights, Nik and Carlos are on the same page about keeping this at a friend-level only. But what happens when one of them starts to catch real feelings?

Reflection

This book is 100% pure fun and delight to read! I am on my branching out tour, and romance is a genre I steer clear of normally. I always think of it as being ridiculous-sappy or erotica, with little room in between. But this book proved this skeptic WRONG! The Proposal is the romantic comedy of the 2018 book world, and I absolutely loved it! It was packed with humor, sizzling chemistry, and enough “awwwww” moments to keep this reader hooked until the last page!

Nik is a truly fantastic character. I loved how she is tough but a bit vulnerable, and fiercely loyal. Nik is not a people pleaser—she is very frank and honest. But years of bad dating experiences may have built some walls around her, and she isn’t as open as she should be to love. Nik is also fiercely loyal. One aspect of this book that I adored was the friendship between Nik, Courtney, and Dana. Their friendship made me so happy, and I loved the way Guillory wrote their interactions. Courtney and Dana are the type of friends who will key the car of a guy who wronged you, read text messages you are too afraid to open, and push you towards something that will make you happy.

And then we have Carlos, who has such a sweet relationship with his family. All of the vulnerable moments he has with Nik just melted my heart. What a guy! I think many readers will find themselves shouting out while reading this saying “can’t you two see you are in love???” But that would have made for a much shorter book, so we are lucky they are so out of touch with their own hearts.

A truly loveable story that has made many must-read lists in the women’s world this fall. And I must say those are well-deserved! Thank you to the team at Berkley for my copy to review.
I read this with some book besties!!! We had an absolutely blast!

Take me out to the ball game. Take me out to the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and propose to me???

Man bun... doesn’t know how to spell your name... proposes at a Dodgers game... 3 STRIKES YOUR OUT! The opening scene to this book was epic, something I’ve always thought every time I’ve watched one of those scoreboard proposals.... what happens if the girl says, “ KNOW“? Well this book shows you exactly what happens to Nik after the very public proposal.... and can I just say, if this were to happen to any of us I would certainly hope we’d all have a Carlos in the stands to come to our rescue!

A sweet, fun, love story, about two people determined not to fall in love... so, after Carlos and his sister rescue Nik they head to a bar and meet up with Nik’s Besties.... I have to say the relationship between these three girls was really the highlight of the story, it was kind of “ Sex in the City“ on the West Coast... I loved how there for one another they were, how supportive, how non-judgemental, and I loved how bourbon and cupcakes cured everything.... Looove strong female friendships in books!

The book perhaps was predictable, but it is a romance, there is generally only one satisfying outcome... for me what makes or breaks a romance is the characters and the chemistry.... this book was filled with wonderful characters including all the secondary characters.... both Nik and Carlos had wonderful friends, and Carlos had an amazing family.... also loved all the food talk, can’t get enough cupcakes, enchiladas, tacos, etc. etc. etc. where this book fell a little short for me was in the chemistry I didn’t always buy into the chemistry between Nik and Carlos... but what I did believe was, they had a very strong connection and friendship, and truth be told that is what will get this fictional couple through the years! My other little niggle was the Los Angeles stereotyping, I grew up in the LA area and we all ate carbs especially Pizza! Just saying😉

Recommend when you are in the mood for a fun Romance filled with fabulous characters!💕

*** A huge thank you to Berkley for my copy of this book ***

I read The Wedding Date earlier in the year and thought it was a super cute romance featuring a couple that was unexpectedly thrown together and it somehow worked out. The Proposal featuring another couple thrown together by circumstances while cute, didn't quite hit the spot for me in the same way.

Here's what I enjoyed about The Proposal. Once again Guillory has an interracial couple, Nik and Carlos (yes, Carlos from The Wedding Date). Their initial meeting at the baseball game is awesome when he rescues her from further humiliation after she turns down her boyfriend's very public and unexpected proposal and he left her stranded. Guillory adds more diversity in the form of Nik's Korean best friend, Courtney and a gay best friend, Dana. They're both supportive friends who help Nik see clearly when she can't. Carlos is a catch. He's smart, funny, caring and cooks which would make me propose to him. The theme of female empowerment is also explored as a subplot and is one that I appreciated. Guillory even takes advantage of this to introduce another diverse character with a history that'll resonate with many women, and I liked feeling that girl power.

I struggled with the book whenever I felt that the story was moving away from Nik and Carlos. There's a subplot involving his cousin's pregnancy that serves to demonstrate how devoted he is to his family. However, it came up so often that it became a third central character that I felt overshadowed Nik and Carlos. I'd much rather that some of that space have been used to learn more about one of Nik's previous relationships that made her so squeamish about declarations of love. It's alluded to but barely and not having that insight meant not having a better understanding of Nik. To me it's an important missing piece of who she is that affects her and Carlos later. Nik just winds up feeling kind of flat to me as does Carlos.

As a whole The Proposal is a cute story that does contain a powerful message about female solidarity, but I didn't get completely wrapped up in the romance. I think I'd have felt differently had there been a better balance between subplots.

~ Bel

I really enjoyed  The Wedding Date so when this became available to read - I jumped right on it!

Nikole is bored to death at a baseball game, wonder why in the world she agreed to attend with her boyfriend. When the unthinkable happens...he proposes.  She thought she might die!  Carlos to the rescue.  Nik is sooooo not looking for a boyfriend, but a friend absolutely.  Their relationship starts off a just that - a friendship but slowly becomes so much more. I loved watching them find themselves through their friendship, watching it grow to so much more was sweet and fun. This is an easy fun read that flowed well and I enjoyed it.

I do love to see diversity in books and this book offered that. Main characters of color are often hard to find in romance.

Oh my goodness, Jasmine Guillory you are perfection!! I loved The Wedding Date but holy lovebirds I think I adored this one even more!! I flew through it in a few hours on the plane, it was THAT GOOD!

If you have read The Wedding Date, then you will recognize a few of the characters, but you do not need to have read that book to keep up with this one.

The Proposal focuses on Carlos, who was the best friend in the first book, but there is a whole new cast of supporting characters and only minor interactions with the previous ones, which is why you will be just fine starting here. (But really, go read the other because it is good!)

Carlos finds himself with his sister Angela at an LA Dodgers game, where Nik also is with her actor boyfriend of five months. It is said bf’s birthday, so he is also there with his friends. Nik is bored, until he tells her to pay attention and she sees a wedding proposal on the Jumbotron for her, name spelled incorrectly and all, and she is stunned. She says no, boyfriend storms off with his friends, and the whole stadium basically gives her the side eye. Enter Carlos and Angela to save the day and rescue her from further humiliation.

It just gets better and better from here, they hit it off and continue to see each other casually, and you probably know what happens next.

I loved everything about this one, the setup was wonderful, the female protagonist is strong, as are her friends, and Carlos is independent (but caring) as well. Jasmine writes such excellent characters, and I also love that she has integrated subplots within the narrative that are additive, such as the self-defense gym Nik and her friends start attending and how it came about.

Seriously, I cannot recommend this one enough! Pub date is October 30, so it will be an excellent palate cleanser from all the spooky books you have been reading!

Thanks to NetGalley for an electronic ARC of this book. All opinions above are my own.

The Proposal is laugh-out-loud, person next to you on the airplane starring at you funny! It begins with a marriage proposal on the Jumbotron at a Dodgers game, and turns into a hilarious modern day romance. Nikole has been casually dating a Ken doll look-alike with a man bun for a few months, when he decides to propose to her in a big way. It leads to a big refusal and goes viral, making Nik a social media sensation. Before more can happen at the stadium, Carlos and his sister Angela rescue Nik and get her home safely. Nik and Carlos find an attraction and decide to have a casual, no commitment relationship, until one morning everything changes.

I laughed until I cried at this story. Nik and Carlos are an entertaining couple who I'd love to be friends with in real life. The few minor storylines in the novel, including Carlos' cousin Jessie's baby and Nik's best friend Courtney's romance, support and enhance the main one, resulting in a great book that I didn't want to put down.

I didn't think I could love this more than the first book but Jasmine Guillory proved me wrong. Funny, heart felt and just an overall feel good read, The Proposal proves that Guillory's success isn't a fluke. She's here to stay, folks. Deal with it. Bravo!

Jasmine Guillory is the master of meet-cutes. In The Proposal, a spectacularly awful proposal at a Dodgers game kicks off a sparkling romance between two smart, funny, endearing characters.

Carlos won me over in The Wedding Date and I couldn’t have been more excited for his book. Carlos has a huge and generous heart that made me sigh. And since the death of his father, he is extremely protective of the women in his family. He has a tendency to take over because he wants to take care of people, but to his credit he acknowledges this and works on holding himself in check. Carlos isn’t a perfect man, but he’s as close a knight in shining armor as possible without coming across as cardboard perfect. Nik doesn’t generally need rescuing, but even she has to admit she’s in over her head when her self-absorbed boyfriend surprises her with a proposal on the Dodger Stadium jumbotron. Escaping a stadium full of disappointed fans and a camera crew closing in is made a lot easier with the aid of Carlos and his sister. Nik and Carlos hit it off from the start, but having literally just ended a relationship Nik isn’t ready to jump into another. It was easy for me to fall for Nik. She’s smart, honest, witty, sarcastic, and independent. She’s also incredibly relatable and I had a blast reading about her.

Nik and Carlos’s romance is filled with humor and heart. Their chemistry is excellent and it made the pages of The Proposal fly by. As with The Wedding Date, this book features two people who are successful in their careers and both of them respect and value each other’s work, which I really enjoyed. The two of them fit one another like lock and key, but that doesn’t mean the road to happily ever after is an easy one. Nik has been hurt before so she guards her heart fiercely, not wanting to let herself fall for Carlos. As for Carlos, he has never truly dealt with the death of his father, a loss that has left its mark in unexpected ways. So while Nik and Carlos have no problem falling into lust, opening themselves up to love is another story. I won’t give away spoilers, but this is the one part where the story hit a big snag for me. I found Nik’s actions and reactions to be consistent all the way through the story, but Carlos takes a major left turn in character near the end of the book that felt manufactured for drama. This is a pity because it’s a clunky bit of false drama in an otherwise charming romance.

It’d be a crime to write about The Proposal and not talk about Nik’s two best friends, Dana and Courtney. They are both fantastic, fun, and exactly the kind of best friends you want to have. Though Dana finds love in this book, it’s not told from her point of view and I really, really hope Ms. Guillory gives Dana and her girlfriend (whose identity I won’t spoil) their own book or novella. And oh, do I have my fingers crossed in the hopes that Courtney gets a book. Courtney’s spirit and love of all things glittery (not to mention her cupcakes) made my heart sing and I desperately want her story. So while I thoroughly enjoyed The Proposal, it did leave me hungry for more of Ms. Guillory’s work.

Fans of Jasmine Guillory's debut The Wedding Date will not want to miss out on the chance to snap up her sophomore novel, The Proposal.

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When someone asks you to spend your life with him, it shouldn't come as a surprise--or happen in front of 45,000 people.

When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard proposal. Saying no isn't the hard part--they've only been dating for five months, and he can't even spell her name correctly. The hard part is having to face a stadium full of disappointed fans...

At the game with his sister, Carlos Ibarra comes to Nik's rescue and rushes her away from a camera crew. He's even there for her when the video goes viral and Nik's social media blows up--in a bad way. Nik knows that in the wilds of LA, a handsome doctor like Carlos can't be looking for anything serious, so she embarks on an epic rebound with him, filled with food, fun, and fantastic sex. But when their glorified hookups start breaking the rules, one of them has to be smart enough to put on the brakes... [/su_quote]

I received an eARC of The Proposal from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I'm not a baseball person, but neither is Nikole. Her story gets off to a start with a bang, but Nik doesn't let her ex-boyfriend get in the way of her plans for the rest of her life.

The relationship between Carlos and Nik is incredibly well built over the course of this novel as their worlds weave together. I loved the romance.

I loved the friendships in The Proposal, and how both of them had inner lives of their own. Nik didn't let the relationship with Carlos get in the way of helping her friends, instead inviting him to join her when they needed her. Carlos used his family as an excuse to avoid getting close to Nik, but I loved how close he was with his mom, sister and cousins.

This is one of the only books I've ever read that actually gets journalism right - from the dual recorders to the note about her friend dating the subject of her piece to the daily habits and struggles with rejections.

I would love to see her friends get romance novels of their own and to get back into their orbit. You can fall in love with them as much as I do on Amazon or Indiebound.

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Title: The Proposal

Author: Jasmine Guillory

Publisher: Berkley Books

Length: 336 Pages

Release Date: October 30, 2018

Rating: ★★★★★ / Five stars

Genre: Romance

Representation: ownvoices black woman main character, latinx man love interest

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Jasmine Guillory's second book brings back all of the charm of The Wedding Date with a fresh new story. It's fun to see her characters develop and deal with love and romance in the modern world!

This is a quick, fun read! The story is cute, the characters are all really interesting. It’s a perfect book to read when you’ve had a bad week and just want to read something fun and lighthearted. I do have to say - I’ll never look at sour cream the same way again!

After really liking The Wedding Date last year, I was quite excited to read this and I was not disappointed. Such a fun set up and a lovely cast of characters! I loved Nik's friends and Carlos' family and I find this setting super fun to read about. I liked Nik's independent streak and loved the ending.

When Nik receives an unexpected proposal of marriage via the jumbo-tron at a major league baseball game, she turns the guy down in front of tens of thousands of people. Her (now former) boyfriend exits the stadium in a huff and camera crews descend. Carlos and his sister see what’s about to happen and rescue Nik before she is confronted by the media anxious to splash her story all over National TV.
That’s a great intro for what was an otherwise disappointing story. Nik and Carlos strike up a relationship and you can pretty much guess the rest.. In spite of some funny and witty dialog along the way, the characters had no depth and what plot there was was syrupy and predictable. This book was a let down even after going into it expecting a light, fluffy read.

The Proposal is the sensational, charming, warm, sexy follow up to Jasmine Guillory’s The Wedding Date. While this novel contains characters from that story, you do not need to read that book to absolutely, thoroughly enjoy this one. I speak from experience.

Nikole (Nik) Paterson is not enjoying spending the day at the ballpark while her boyfriend and his friends bond over warm beer, pretzels and sports – but it’s her man’s birthday and this is what he wanted. She’s vaguely wondering if their five-month relationship has run its course when he tells her to look at the score board. Tearing her eyes away from her phone, she glances up to see the words, “NICOLE: I LOVE YOU. WILL YOU MARRY ME?” When he drops down on one knee and proposes, her slack jawed mouth closes just enough to form the word no. As her boyfriend and his buddies stomp off, calling her various names as they depart, she finds herself the object of horrified, angry looks from the 45,000 other people attending the game.

Carlos Ibarra can’t help but admire the courage of the young woman two rows in front of him who has the gumption to turn down the proposal of the overly tan dude with the man bun. When he sees said young lady about to be mobbed by news station crews, he and his sister Angela rush to her rescue. Feigning a friendship they don’t have, they ooh and ahh over finding her on such an unlikely day and help her skedaddle out of the park. They give her a ride to a nearby bar, where Nik meets up with friends and invites the Ibarras to join her in a drink. They do, and Carlos is impressed all over again, this time with Nik’s wit and humor. But just after a girl has had a very public break up is not the time to hit on her.

Nik is impressed with Carlos as well. Not only is he handsome, he shows himself to be a kind, caring gentleman. When its clear she needs some alone time with her friends, he and Angela leave, but not before he covers the tab.

He figures the only other chance he’ll have to see her again is if he hangs out at the bar, hoping to catch sight of her. She figures this is the totally wrong time to get involved with another man. But one thank you email later and they’re sharing food and fun at a local Thai eatery. Funny texts and cupcake dates quickly follow. Before they know it, they’re seeing each other two or three times a week. It’s been said that a simple rule of dating is that rebound relationships never last but aren’t the rules meant to be broken?

Like Nik after the spontaneous proposal from a man who couldn’t even spell her name, I found myself speechless after finishing this book. Unlike Nik, my shock was from my overwhelmingly positive emotions. There was so much I loved about this novel I could easily write a top 100 list of reasons to buy it, but I will try to limit this review to the top five.

One thing the author gets all kinds of kudos for is the best depiction of an alpha female/beta male pairing I have ever seen in romance. EVER. Nik is strong, independent, and tough as nails. A lot of writers end up making alpha females as much of a jerk as her alpha male jerk counterpart but that doesn’t happen here. Nikole is a kind person who has good friends and a caring, compassionate heart. What makes her alpha is her take charge nature and that she knows the difference between someone asking for a favor and someone taking advantage. She’s always up for the former, she’s never down with the latter.

Just the right combination of open-hearted and savvy, Carlos is beta male perfection. He is willing to let others set the pace on most things but asserts himself when he needs to. He’s okay with being vulnerable to hurt in order to further a relationship along and isn’t afraid to do the heavy lifting in the romance department, but he doesn’t tolerate abuse. I loved everything about him; even his flaws and mistakes are endearing.

The characters, therefore, are perfect not in the sense that they don’t have flaws but that the author skillfully uses even those flaws to move her plot along and endear her creations to the reader. Another absolutely fabulous factor in this alpha-beta pairing is that Nik has a lot of back history with bad relationships. She’s had plenty of losers in her past but unlike many a romance alpha who uses that as an excuse to be cold, distant, untrusting, and unkind to everyone of the opposite sex whom they meet she is friendly, open and fun-loving with her dates. She gives relationships a chance and treats everyone with an open-minded fairness which is just so, so refreshing to see. I now want to go back through my reading history, grab by the hair every ‘wounded’ alpha who punished his new love for his exes’ mistakes, drag them to Nikole’s feet and say, “Learn from her!”.

And yet in spite of all this character perfection, the author is still able to find room for them to grow, become better and bring out the best in each other. Insert fan girl squeal here- that is so awesome! I love it when two great people become even better together.

The relationship building is out of this world fantastic and I just about swooned every time these two were together. I loved how fun their encounters are, how well they get along, how they are able to talk through simple problems and not make issues of them. Seriously, this is the best depiction I have seen of modern romance in a contemporary in a long, long time. Everyone wants the relationship these two have.

The secondary characters are handled beautifully. They lend the exact right amount of balance to the growing romance between Carlos and Nik and help add depth to them as individuals. Nik’s two gal pals know her, love her, support her and guide her. They help her laugh and when she gets lost, they help her find her way. Carlos’ family does the same for him. This is a bit odd to say, but I knew that if the two of them didn’t make it as a couple, they would be all right as individuals because their support networks are so awesome. Too many times the hero and heroine become so totally enmeshed that there is no room for them to stay individuals, but that isn’t the case here. They’re stronger together, better together but they’re fine as individuals, too.

Funny, warm and romantic The Proposal is a fantastic, not to be missed romance. I recommend it to anyone who loves – or even just likes – contemporary romance novels.

While I did enjoy this book, I did not enjoy it as much as Guillory's previous title The Wedding Date. That being said, it was still a fun read and I would recommend.