Cute summer book! Very easy and read in one sitting. I loved the relationship between Nelly and Rafael and it was a fun read. My only annoyance was that I thought there was maybe one too many bickering scenes and I found the energy was off at one point during the book. Recommended for romcom lovers!

Nice easy read, a little predictable but no more than I expected from this genre of book.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

This was an okay read, it didn't wow me. I did think things happened way too fast in the book and there didn't seem to be a lot of conflict.

Didn't review in time for release, premise sounds really good will be picking up a physical copy and come back to review soon.

Fake relationships seem to be my guilty pleasure. Some of my favourite recent reads have been centred around this trope, and this one did not disappoint.
Nelly being an influencer was important to the storyline, however I did find it annoying how she often spoke in hashtags! Despite that I loved seeing her and Rafael getting closer as the story went on.
It was a solid sweet romance that I really enjoyed.

I enjoyed this book - not what I expected it was going to be when I started it. Easy read and enjoyable.

First time I’ve read a book by this author. It’s Light hearted fun read. A little slow in parts but overall I enjoyed it.

This was a fun and lighthearted read! The fake dating trope is usually very fun to read, and this was no different. They both know what they're doing when they get into it, but things just end up happening. I do think the transition from Nelly being engaged to becoming jealous of Rafael's friend was a little bit too quick, and some of the events after may have happened a little too soon. Personally I'm just not a fan of insta-love but I didn't find it overly bad in this book. I enjoyed myself reading it.

💃🏻 BOOK REVIEW 💃🏻

Synopsis: When Nelly Roberts is left in the lurch with not just a wedding but also a bridal magazine feature on the line, she has no choice but to substitute one groom for another. The fates align when she’s introduced to the gorgeous Rafael. He’s looking for a way to stay in the UK where he’s built the life he loves.

So they make a pact: act the perfect couple for as long as it takes for Nelly to get her wedding and Rafael to get his visa. The catch? Absolutely nobody can know the truth.

Review: This started out as a super light-hearted and enjoyable read that I was pretty eager to read in one sitting. But Nelly is a toxic, terrible, gaslighting human being that I just couldn’t enjoy. She’s not as selfless as she makes herself out to be and she’s super shallow.

Additionally, there was no inkling of a romance or special vibe between the two characters until the very end. So the “suspense” that I can see was meant to be there actually isn’t and the ending is just bland. I dunno it might be me and my unpopular opinion but this book was just meh. A great Friday night read to smash out in one sitting but it’s nothing special and it’s not memorable. The ending was super rushed and like I said, bland, it really wasn’t a special book for me. But it wasn’t completely terrible!

Thank you to @harpercollinsaustralia and @netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for my review
3/5 stars

What a charming read! Delightful beach reading. I really enjoyed the banter between Nelly and Raphael. What a fun adventure.

Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

The Wedding Favour is a charming and clean romantic-comedy. Nelly is a young woman aspiring to expand her blog and instagram into a career. She seems to have the perfect opportunity when she and her fiance are chosen to be featured in a bridal magazine. All these goals seem to come shattering down when Matt, her fiance, gets cold feet. Now she has an advance she can't pay back and a career opportunity to lose unless she can find another groom.

Rafael is a Columbian who has lived and worked in the UK for almost a decade. Now with his visa soon to expire he'll either have to stay illegally or return to the homeland that no-longer feels like home.

The story that ensues is very rom-com over the top, filled with cute moments and lots of angst and pining. It is all from the point of view of Nelly. She is stubborn, addicted to growing her social media and a bit self centred in her thinking. I found her, at times, infuriating. She had a vision of what she wanted her wedding to be and felt very closed off to any contributions - It's his fake wedding too, let him contribute to the planning. Rafael is dreamy - tall, toned and the coach of a children's football team. A particular thing that stood out to me was that he asked before ordering for her - something not always seen in romance.

I will note that there seemed to be one instance of the wrong word being used (melatonin was used when I believe it was meant to be melanin) near the beginning of the book. Outside of that I didn't see any issues with the grammar or spelling.

Overall, I found the book very enjoyable. It pulled me out of a reading slump and I devoured it in a day. I think it is a great summer or holiday read. Fun, quick and upbeat.

I've loved Lilly Bartlett's books since her very first one. A social media influancer has been given money for her wedding, except her fiance calls it off. I loved the premise of this one, any chance of an update on Rafeal and Nelly.

Such a great fun story. A classic fake relationship trope- Nelly is left without a fiancé three months before her wedding when he gets cold feet but she has signed a contract with a magazine for the story and paid a huge deposit on the reception with the advance from the magazine. Along come Rafael...

The Wedding Favour
By Lilly Bartlett’ Micheal Garment
19 jun 2020
Romance fake darting
Nelly in engaged two Matt who she seeing for two years and they planning a wedding for a magazine press and nelly on Instagram and love photos and think the magazine press with finally give her sponsorship deals and they pay money for her it was all arranged two meet on the 27 of the month and a week before the magazine press was due two come. Matt dumped her in email and said he needed space and when on hoilidays two Spain. Nelly couldn’t believe it what was she going two do she have two pay back the magazine press and take two jobs on and tell her family she decides not two tell her family and just tell her best make in work and a few things in work not her family yet.
In work her friends invited her out for the night and a few drinks two keep her mind if Matt she agrees and except the offer so she go out has a few drinks meets Rafeal and he explain two his friend he need a visa it up been ten years and they wount renew it his work her his friend are her his life. He gutted that night nelly tell her friend she could ask rafeal two marry her in a business purpose that she get her wedding and not have two pay the wedding people back and he get his visa.
So the next day nelly goes round two rafeal office and speaks two hi and asked him two marry her on a business purpose deal so he could keep his visa and work and she have her dream wedding and he thinks and agrees with the idea but the only thing is he had two meet nelly parents and come up with a plan how they met each other so they agree on a plan.
The parents house was so great next two beach in Cornwall nelly takes loads of photos if the beach and her and rafeal was impressed by the beach and the place so much . He met nelly mum who was a soilictor and hoped she didn’t expect anything they had a great chat together they made tea and had a good night it was her father birthday the next day so the family would come round nelly introduced them two rafeal and explained they getting married and she dumped Matt and rafeal was drinking with nelly father and he flew him two the floor a party trick her father always done and said welcome two the family it was a good night and weekend. Next they are two meet with Martha and Matt the wedding magazine press and nelly told her all about Matt and how she dumped him and fell in love with rafeal and Martha put it all five in writing took photos of the happy couple and said we need two go to the wedding Favour two taste food . The wedding favour they took loads of photos and they tasted the deserts and food and couldn’t agree on the wedding cake rafeal didn’t like wedding cake and his idea of wedding food was Indian and Mexican food which nelly was not Impressed they had a lovely he hold her hand and kiss her in front on the press and they like that.
It went great the next place was the food festival and market where Martha wanted two take photos of them . When they went back two nelly apartment for tea and explain what two do at the market and the food her doorbell rang she wounded who it was and by no surprise it was Matt he turned up here after hoilidays used is key two get in nelly didn’t know what To do he asked who all these people were she explained the wedding press and her fiancee she was going two marry he said you can’t you with me I come back two tell you I still want you nelly said no good she marry rafeal and please leave which he stormed off that night.
The market was full of people Martha was there and Matt taking photos of them by the food stand tasting all the food then that where she met mags rafeal best friend who was a supermodel look alike with a million followers on Instagram he never said about mags before nelly fought two be polite then jealous of course. They went two the castle where her and Matt loved and she had two say she never been there before they look round all the beautiful things and sights on the castle then had she turned round Matt was there confession her love for her in front of everyone tell him two leave with she does. Mags find it amusing rounders who Matt was and she knew Matt anyway from a long time ago the day was great apart from that. They arrange two go on a weekend spa away through one of her deals in Instagram with rafeal two get two know him he agrees and when they got the the hotel was looking round down with cardboard on the floor by reception they were having a make over the woman Explain at the desk and leads they two the room the trim look lovely a poster bed just like the Instagram photos was like so nelly took a load of photos of her and rafeal in the room rafeal tried the bed it was so hard but the room was lovely. Then they went for a swim and rafeal suggested she put some flip-flopson her feet there had mushroom growing on the floor at the bottom of the pool she loved the swim and being with rafeal then her phone started ringing and it was Matt she told home two leave her alone and she got out ready for the meal she was starving the only food she eat was the Indian with rafeal the night before with a glass of red.
Wel has she sat and ordered her food it was basic food nothing fancy like they said it was her stomach was rumbling and said two rafeal she needed the toilet and went up two the room and next thing woosh it all came up was on the the toilet most of the night with rafeal leavening toilet roll by the door a couple of hours while stayed next door she felt awful the night was ruined she apologised two him.
Next before the wedding they went two ingestion office two have they chat and be asked loads of question and rafeal gave her a letter from hhis parents two reads out and was it was so nice. IMigration Went well she thought it was nothing two worry about.
It was her hen night and mags planned everything even suggestion that her hen night was with rafeal stag night as well they drank and danced and it was Latin music and rafeal was dancing with mags she knew mags like him allot as well.
The day of the wedding was great till the reception when mags walked in with Matt and puts his hand up and says nelly can’t marry rafeal she loves Matt and he love her. Nelly could believe it he was there with mags as a date so rafeal and nell went and had a chat and he explain that he could be sent back anytime they told him at the office and wasent fully excepted a visa and did she still want two marry him or Matt he told her he actually did love her and they did get married after and Matt left and mags was on her own but the night went lovely and she got on great with mags after they took loads of photos and enjoyed the night.
I love wedding book at the moment I read a couple of them this was fantastic two read a great joy. I gave it five stars rating cause I loved it so much.

This is a easy fun read which is ideal for the summer and the beach.

It's a very easy story to follow, but I did find it a little annoying at times, especially when her ex was following her around.

The story moves at a fast pase and was predictive in it's ending, but still a relaxing read.

Thank you to Netgalley and Publisher for ARC

This book was ok very predictable and i wasn't keen on the main characters and i did struggle on and managed to finish the book but it was an ok read.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this novel.
Initially I couldn’t get into the story at all but it did grow on me. I liked the character of Nelly and her family but Rafael best friends Mabs and the irritating ex Matt really continued to grate on me throughout the novel I’m afraid. I did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would from the preview material.

Really enjoyed this book. Steady paced, great characters, I was absorbed throughout. Will be reading more Gorman books in the future!

Thank you NetGalley and One More Chapter for a complimentary copy. I voluntarily reviewed this book. All opinions expressed are my own.

The Wedding Favour
By: Lilly Bartlett, Michele Gorman


REVIEW ☆☆☆
I love romcoms of all varieties, but The Wedding Favour was a bit too unbelievable for the fake fiance trope. Nelly is in a bad situation. She's a social media influencer with a lot on the line with her dream wedding. The problem is that her husband to be has changed his mind, so it's time to find a replacement. It's all too easy. Here's the guy, and instalove, and it's all wonderful and happens super fast. Granted, the story is entertaining and easy to read, but I didn't love this one.

Nelly was half asleep on her Sister-In-Law’s sofa. Waiting for the ping of her phone to indicate Matt’s make-up call. It had been nearly three weeks since Matt had suggested ‘A Break’ she had only told Rowan about it, her Brother was working away and there hadn’t been any family events so she had managed to keep it a secret. Nelly hated being in limbo, they were due to get married in three months time and the Country’s biggest magazine needed to know if the wedding was on or off. Fantastic Magazine was paying for the whole thing.
I really enjoyed reading Nelly’s story, would her dream wedding go ahead or was it going to be called off. Could she really face letting everyone down. Where would she find the money to pay back the money they’d already given her?
I loved Nelly’s story, it was well written and really enjoyable.