I loved The Worst Best Man so I couldn’t wait to read The Wedding Crasher. Mia Sosa definitely delivered!

Solange is helping her wedding planner cousins at a client’s wedding when she overhears a conversation with the bride that leads her to impulsively crash the wedding mid-ceremony.

Dean has his life carefully mapped out with the intention of becoming partner at his law firm by 30. After his wedding goes off the rails, Dean takes on a task that he sees as the final step before becoming partner. Only problem? He needs a girlfriend to boost his image and get the job done. In a panic, he enlists Solange to play the part. What follows is a series of hilarious encounters, including a second fake-dating emergency for Solange when family visits from out of town.

Initially, I found the first 20% of the book a bit slow and hard to get into, but it really picked up from there. I ended up really enjoying the book! It has fake dating/opposites attract tropes and it felt like a fresh, unique take on a fake dating romance.

The characters are polar opposites–Dean is a straight-laced, obsessive planner and Solange is an adventurous, free spirit– but it becomes clear that their priorities and how they view relationships both stem from their experiences being raised by single mothers. Dean has seen his mother burned by love one too many times and would rather have mutual respect and guaranteed partnership, while Solange feels her mom never got to prioritize herself so she refuses to settle for anything less than love.

Solange and Dean’s relationship is so sweet. They challenge each other in ways that lead to individual character growth and eventually, love. I loved their dynamic and even though they don’t see eye to eye on everything, they are super supportive of each other. They also have great chemistry and their banter is hilarious. As they navigate fake dating and other surprises, they really become a team and end up being exactly what the other needs.

Aside from Dean and Solange’s romance, I absolutely loved the secondary characters and Solange’s crazy, meddling family. They truly are a village of strong, supportive women who always have each other's backs and happily adopt outsiders who are important to the women (Max and Dean). I also really enjoyed how the author incorporated Brazilian culture in such a cool, authentic way. I desperately want to find a restaurant that serves Brazilian food now!

Other elements I appreciated and enjoyed: LGBTQ+ relationships and characters, being set in DC (why are all love stories set in NYC??), ride-or-die friendships, and a thoughtful, solid cast of secondary characters.

Very long story short, add this to your TBR list ASAP. You won’t regret it.

ARC kindly provided by Avon via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

4.5 stars

The Wedding Crasher was such a funny and sexy romcom! This is my first book by Mia Sosa and I am so impressed!

Things to look forward to:
- Unique and awkward meet cute/disaster. I loved the wedding crasher premise and how it came full circle in the novel.
- A+ fake dating trope, along with friends with benefits to lovers, forced proximity, there's only 1 bed, and opposites attract
- hilarious (and meddling) family and friend group. This is my first time meeting the tias, but they were so funny. Honorable mention to Rey, who had one of my favorite lines in the book (thanks to Lin Manuel Miranda ;)
- Amazing banter between a starchy buttoned up hero (with an ooey gooey center) and sassy, keep you on your toes heroine. I loved Dean and Solange's back and forth. They had such amazing chemistry (in and out of the bedroom).
- spicy, spicy, spicy! That party scene was definitely unexpected, but wow *fans self*

I will admit that the "we don't fit together" back and forth did get a little tiring, but I appreciated that they were always honest about their feelings, expectations, and desires. The epilogue gave me all the warm fuzzies and I look forward to reading more from Mia Sosa in the future!

CW: parental abandonment (past), housing instability/moving around lot (past)

*I voluntarily read an advance review copy of this book*

Overall: 4.5/5
Spice level: 3/5
Tropes: fake dating

I absolutely loved Dean and Solange. There were some true laugh out loud moments throughout the book!

Dean's character was funny and pragmatic but also had a huge heart. A sweet guy jaded regarding love because of his upbringing. Meeting and falling for Solange really loosened his buttoned up lifestyle.

Solange was a beautiful free spirit who just wanted to be loved in every way. She knew what she wanted and deserved and didn't settle.

I loved so much about this story. The chemistry. The family support. The cultural aspects of Solange's background. And especially the friendship foundation that Dean and Solange. There wasn't A LOT of spice, but the plot and comedic moments made up for it.

Also, I enjoyed it better than book 1. Highly recommended

Unfortunately, this was not the one for me. I really enjoyed The Worst Best Man and was so excited to start this one, but I just didn't feel the connection between the two main characters. I also didn't love all of the pop culture references. There were sooo many. However, the family dynamics were incredible and there were moments that made me laugh. I'm still looking forward to reading more by Mia Sosa.

What a smart, funny, and hot romantic comedy! It's got fake dating, only-one-bed, amazing supporting characters, and some moderately steamy scenes. I found myself cackling more than once at certain parts with how funny some of the bantering is between the couple and their friends/family, while also swooning over how adorable of a couple these two make.

Solange is a single girl who's been struggling with what her future looks like - in both love and her career. She's tired of dead-end failed relationships, and has set a boundary for herself - no more wasting time and energy on guys who are emotionally unavailable and won't commit with their whole heart. She's feeling uncertain about her career path after her grad-school fellowship ends - she's torn between taking on a permanent version of her current position with a school in her hometown, or moving out-of-state to work at a non-profit that would would have her traveling all over the country. Afraid of making the wrong decision, she's avoiding making any decision about her future. While in a bit of a self-made holding pattern, she assists her cousin's wedding planning business (hi Lina, nice to see you again :-) !)

Dean is a jaded guy who's watched his mother's lifelong string of failed relationships and has decided that love can't be real and definitely isn't for him. He craves stability and commitment, but in the form of a relationship that looks a lot more like a business deal than anything passionate. He's crafted a marriage of convenience to a jaded, like-minded woman who has her own reasons for wanting the arrangement. He has a list of goals for his life plan - pay off his student loans, purchase a home, find a partner, making partnership at his law firm, and start a family. Hopefully without too much emotion or drama. It all seems to be going to plan - he achieved #1 and #2 and is about to tick #3 off the list when he meets Solange and it all starts going off the rails...

... Because Solange just ran into his almost wife in a stairway confessing her love to someone who isn't Dean. Not realizing that the marriage is one of convenience, she feels like she owes Dean the truth about what she witnessed, not wanting him to be stuck in a loveless marriage like the one her mother had with her father. Unfortunately, the first chance she gets to say anything is during the ceremony, as they are exchanging vows (cringe)! With his complicit partner now out of the picture, Dean still needs someone to fake-dating to help himself get ahead at work. Guilting Solange into playing along, the pair grow closer and closer, unable to resist the attraction between them. But Dean doesn't want to lose control of his carefully managed life and fall in love, and Solange won't give up her quest to find true love with someone who will give his love freely and without restraint. At some point the physical attraction and mutual pining hits its peak, and the fake power couple will need to call it quits before it irreparably hurts both of them, or risk it all to have something even greater.

Thanks to NetGalley, Avon and Harper Voyager, and Mia Sosa for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!

4.5 Stars

This was an amazingly funny and witty rom-com. I honestly felt like I was watching a movie with all the crazy situations they ended up in.

I loved Solange and Dean. I'm obsessed. The personality on these two was just too big for the pages. I loved their relationship and the banter between them. It was so satisfying. Dean comes across a little nerdy but can hang and Solange is just so sassy with this larger than life personality. I have no doubt that Solange is a Sagittarius. This just has to be a fact.

I love the fake-dating trope and The Wedding Crasher brings this trope to life. We get double the trouble when Dean must pretend to be dating Solange for a promotion and when Solange gets caught up in her mother's lie of dating seriously with a very available Dean to distract her Tia.

One of the reasons I loved TWBM was because the writing and sentiments of the book were so relatable. This held true in The Wedding Crasher. I related to Solange's need to be the best of herself for her family and to make them proud. When you're first generation there is this invisible standard that you feel like you have to uphold. I loved the closeness of the family before and it got even better in this book.

This book made me laugh out loud and made me feel a kinship to the characters. The steam and spice were on point. I couldn't have asked for anything more. I enjoyed this book from start to finish.

Thank you Mia Sosa, NetGalley and Avon/Harper Voyager for this ARC.

I absolutely loved this story. There was such a great build up to their relationship and their growing attraction to each other. They had such great chemistry and their banter was hysterical! I was constantly laughing and loved that about this book. It took me half way through this book to realize that this was a companion novel so it could definitely be read independently of the first book (I enjoyed this book more than the first one, I related to Solange more). The steam levels were great and I couldn't ask for better than what Mia wrote. She has become an autobuy author after reading this book!

Again, this was not my favorite, but I think The Wedding Crasher is a huge improvement over The Worst Best Man. People seem to like Mia Sosa’s voice, and I’d have to agree there. She writes a warm hug of a book, that’s for sure.

After witnessing the bride profess her love for another man in a stairwell minutes before the ceremony, Solange stops a complete stranger’s wedding to keep them from a big mistake. Embarrassed and feeling indebted for the inconvenience, she ends up helping the groom, Dean, fake a relationship so that he can help onboard a new lawyer for his firm – and finally make partner.

And as with any fake relationship, somebody has to catch feelings. Unfortunately for Dean and Solange, Dean is committed to his job and his no-emotions romantic plan, and Solange is destined to leave the city at the end of the summer with no strings attached. Can they keep it light and fun while it lasts?

This book started so strong, but really lost me around the middle. It just got a little wild for me, I think, and I’m not ashamed to admit that. There’s a lot going on here, but it’s not a bad story or a bad romance. In fact, the chemistry between Dean and Solange is some of the best I’ve read in a long while. I liked the “forbidden romance” aspect of it, driven by the fact that the pair have polar opposite romantic aspirations, but it did get a bit repetitive after a while – a bit like beating a dead horse.

I really liked Solange’s character. She was sweet and charismatic, smart and giving, and I think she and her family really make this story. She is a magnetic heroine; you can’t peel your eyes away when she’s on the page. She seems like the kind of girl even us super quiet, introverted types will befriend. Solange, combined with her huge Brazilian family, take over the pages and make every character feel like they belong amongst them. The infusion of that culture and family into this novel is a great one.

I didn’t like Dean *as much*, but I understood him at least. That, I guess, is definitely a strength of this book: it’s one of the most realistic romances I’ve read in awhile. Both characters are stubborn and faulty, but if they were real people, I think they would well and truly fall in love. They’re both likeable and I root for them!

I think what it boils down to is a preference thing. This was a huge improvement over The Worst Best Man, I just don’t think it was for me. And that’s totally fine – it may be for you, though, and I will still recommend it to romance readers! And I think I will likely pick up Sosa again, even just one more time.

Big thanks to the publisher for providing an advance readers copy of The Wedding Crasher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I hope you all have the most fabulous week. 🙂

Delightfully funny and sexy story from Mia Sosa! I loved the return of Lina and Solange's large and fun family, and the steamy scenes were perfect. Perfect for lovers of fake dating, found family, and starchy heroes getting un-starched.

The next spicy romance to make your toes curl!

The Wedding Crasher is a perfectly bingeable romance that will leave you full of all those good happy feelings.

Solange wants a man who is all in and ready to love. Dean, a notorious cynic, believes he isn't wired for love and has no interest in finding it. In a strange turn of events, Solange ends up stopping Dean's wedding even though she's never met him or the bride. She only does this because she overhears the Bride confessing her love to someone else. Solange expects Dean to be mad or upset but what she doesn't know is that it was a marriage of convenience and partnership rather than love.

Two weeks later, when Dean's law firm is courting a potential new attorney and the only way he can get himself in the favor of the partners is to help show the lawyer around town. But he has to lie about having a significant other to get himself the gig. In a panic, he drops Solange's name has his new girlfriend.

He proposes his scheme to Solange and, because she feels indebted to him (and unable to resist his unbelievable good looks), she agrees to fake date. The two set up ground rules and boundaries to make it as easy as possible but its quickly realized that neither can resist their attraction to each other.

As with most romances, the plot soon falls by the way side and I really didn't mind. The tension between Dean and Solange is palpable. And the spicy scenes! Don't even get me started!

Both of our main characters were so emotionally developed and in touch with themselves. Also, they were both in their late 20's, it was refreshing to read about older mc's. There was incredible POC rep and specifically Brazilian rep. Several kinds of family structures were shown in positive lights. There was also a prominent side wlw couple that I absolutely adored. I would read a whole book about them!

The Wedding Crasher will be a must read for romance lovers and Smuttok. I immensely enjoyed reading it and I'm eager to pick up Sosa's other book!

First and foremost, thank you Avon Books for the eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review 💖

This is my first Mia Sosa book & I have to say, I loved every minute of it. I was sucked in from the very beginning and the way the story unfolded was so organic.

We have a crashed wedding, fake dating on multiple accounts, a meddlesome family, ONE BED, and a maybe Vegas elopement— need I say more?! This book has all my favorite tropes and more. And the house party scene 🥵🥵 whew.

Solange and Dean are cuties with booties (clearly) and I can’t wait for everyone to get their hands on this book so they can fall in love with them too!

Read if you like:
DC 🌃
Loving family 💖
Fake dating 🤫
One bed 🛏
Lawyers 🧑🏼‍💼
Brazilian food 🥟

Rating: TBD
Spice: 🌶🌶.5/5

I enjoyed this book so much!

I was so excited for this book ever since reading The Worst Best Man and meeting Dean and I am pleased to say that even though I had already loved him in the first book, this one made me love him even more!

Additionally, of course, getting to know Solange was a huge highlight for me. Not only did it make me so happy to read about another Brazilian character and to relate to her when it comes to her culture etc but she was also just such a joy to read about. I loved reading about her struggles and seeing her overcome them. She was just such an easy character to fall in love with!

The romance was absolute perfection. the chemistry between dean and solange was there from the very first interaction and it just kept getting better and better. I love that they got to know each other and became such good friends before anything happened to them romantically and ugh their friendship was just so sweet.

I think one of my favorite things about the book (just like the worst best man) was the family dynamic. I'm really close to my family and specially my cousins so i just see so much of us in the friendship between solange and her cousins! The Brazilian representation is just so so perfect it genuinely makes me tear up. I NEED MORE BRAZILIAN CHARACTERS IN ROMANCE PLEASE! These books are so close to my heart due to the representation and i am so so thankful to mia sosa for these characters. I smiled throughout every single scene of solange with her family. I am obsessed.

Why 4 stars and not 5? i think the drama at the end dragged a bit and I didn't really love the conflict that much with the fake wedding in vegas. I also think i might've loved lina and max just slightly more. This was still an incredible book though and i could not recommend it enough!

Thanks to @avonbooks for sending me a copy of The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa for review! TWC is out today!

Mia Sosa writes rom-coms that feel SO nostalgic, and I know she’s a sucker for them, too, because she name drops You’ve Got Mail, When Harry Met Sally, and Always Be My Maybe in TWC!

Dean is a list guy. He’s got a plan for his life, and love has no place in it. Meanwhile Solange refuses to have anyone in her life that isn’t all in. This opposites attract (or are they?!), fake dating romance was a wild ride (truly, so many amazing and hilarious scenes straight out of a rom-com).

Both Solange and Dean have reservations about relationships in opposite ways; Solange grew up with parents who weren’t in love and wants to find the real deal; Dean grew up with a mom who was always following her heart and is determined to marry someone whose life and goals fit into his own — love isn’t a factor. A fake dating scheme forces them to let each other in, and causes them both to reassess the choices they’ve made.

I loved that there was so much conversation surrounding Solange and Dean’s jobs, as they worked out what was important to them and what they saw themselves doing long term. Ditto for learning to navigate their relationship with their single moms as adults. As always, the Perreira women are hilarious and their relationships are so sweet. I related so much to Dean’s overthinking, Type A heart (lol) and the dynamic between him and Solange felt natural from the jump. Max and Lina make several appearances (yay) but you need to have read The Worst Best Man in order to read The Wedding Crasher.

I kept getting Party of Two vibes as I read this, which isn’t surprising given that Mia Sosa, like Jasmine Guillory, is a lawyer turned writer. Unsurprisingly, I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to read what Sosa writes next.

TW: sexual content

While I love romance books, especially ones with fake dating, I think this one might not have been for me.

I will say that I really enjoyed some of the characters; Solange's relatives felt so real. But I'm not sure that I felt any real connection between the two main characters, Solange and Dean, outside of a physical relationship. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but not what I look for in my romances.

If you're looking for a steamy book, I do think that those scenes will work for you. There was also an event in the book that was supposed to be sexy, but I felt that it came out of nowhere, and didn't progress the story more besides in that area.

And one thing that might just be a slight pet peeve of mine, but I know that I'm not alone, is that there were not many, very specific, pop culture references that, truthfully pulled me out of the story: Love is Blind, The Circle, Ariana Grande, Magic Mike. These things didn't add anything for me, except that one character is all about pop culture and uses these shows and artists to describe her life, while others apparently have no idea who or what she's talking about.

This was my first Mia Sosa, so I would be open to reading more, but I just thought that this book was okay.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing the E-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Solange is roped into helping her wedding planner cousin with a couple’s big day but she accidentally hears the bride profess her love to someone who isn’t the groom. What is Solange to do, crash the wedding. Dean has his life planned out ahead of him until his wedding comes to a crashing gaily. Soon Dean and Solange are caught up in a fake romance to save Dean’s job. Yet their fake-dating soon starts to feel a little real.

I really enjoyed the author’s last book The Worst Best Man so I was excited for this one. Even though it is a storyline I’ve seen before (fake dating), it had some new twists to it. The book had me hooked from the beginning. I must admit it did get a tad slow in the middle but then quickly picked up again. I flew through the past part of the book and couldn’t put it down.

this book was cute!! it is an arc so as always no spoilers. dean was probably my favorite character from worst best man so to see him get his own storyline was very exciting for me! he and solange are perfect for each other and i loved the subject matter that this book dealt with, particularly the idea that happily ever after may look different for different people but can also change throughout a person’s life. i loved that we got so many callbacks to worst best man, and usually i don’t love romcom sequels but i actually thought this was better than the og. also the tias are the cutest!!

Thank you NetGalley and Avon/Harper Voyager for an e-ARC of The Wedding Crasher in exchange for an honest review.

RATING: 5 Stars

Solange Pereira is a free spirit that goes where her heart takes her. She is weeks away from leaving DC but gets roped into helping her wedding planner cousin Lina at the wedding of a random couple. Everything is going smoothly until Solange overhears something that has her convinced the couple should not get married! She has two choices: 1) Keep her mouth shut and mind her business 2) Crash the wedding and make sure the groom doesn’t make the biggest mistake of his life.

Dean Chapman has his whole life planned out and marrying Ella is the next step in his plan. After his marriage of convenience implodes Dean focuses on the next step in his plan which is making partner at the law firm he’s been an associate at for years. In order to land an assignment that could guarantee him a promotion he claims to be in love with the woman who crashed his wedding 😱


My first book by Mia Sosa was The Worst Best Man in 2020 and it was phenomenal! When I found out she was writing a new book about Lina’s cousin, I got very excited 😆

Let me tell you, Mia Sosa does not disappoint! The Wedding Crasher gave what it was supposed to give 👏🏾 This book is hilarious, steamy 🔥 and a gut punch of emotions.

Fake dating is one of my favorite romance tropes and Mia Sosa does it so well. Solange and Dean somehow manage to get themselves involved in two separate fake dating schemes which makes for a bunch of hilarious hijinks.

I fell in love with Solange’s family all over again in this book. The tias (aunties) and primas (cousins) are a force to be reckoned with. Sosa’s inclusion of them along with Solange’s friend Brandon and Dean’s best friend Max, highlights how important familial and platonic relationships are in tandem with romantic ones.

Mia Sosa’s writing has a way of making you laugh out loud and then in the next sentence make you feel all the feelings 😩 Her characters are flawed yet absolutely lovable. Solange and Dean felt wholly human and super relatable.

I really loved this one and look forward to what Mia Sosa comes out with next!

I love this book and I love Mia Sosa! This book took grumpy/sunshine to a place I never knew it could go! I am absolutely in love with these characters and am double IN LOVE with the family aspect of this novel. The uber involved family and inside jokes are the cherry on top of this masterpiece!!

The Wedding Crasher was a fun and enjoyable story. While some characters from The Worst Best Man appear in this novel, each can be read as a standalone. Solange Perreira is filling as a make-up artist assistant at a wedding coordinated by her cousin, Lina (the main character from The Worst Best Man) in Washington DC. The groom, Dean Chapman, is Max’s friend (the other main from the other novel) and has his whole future mapped out. He paid off his student loans, just bought a house, is part of a power couple, wants to make partner at Olney & Henderson LLP before he’s 30 which is coming up soon at the end of the year, and eventually wants a family. He’s excited to be on track, but things are about to not go to plan. When Solange overhears Dean’s fiancé, Ella, saying she’s in love with her friend, Tyler, she is unsure if she should step in to ruin the couple’s wedding. Ella ends up officially calling things off and Solange is upset that her involvement set forth the events that broke up the couple.

After not going through with the wedding, Dean is ready to move on and focus on making partner. When he learns that the ticket to this promotion might need the involvement of a significant other, Dean’s first thought thinks of Solange. As Solange objected to the wedding, Dean finds it the perfect transition to pretend that she only broke up the wedding as the two were in love with each other. The two share an insta-attraction to each other yet neither is in a place to begin a relationship, so it is a perfect fit to pretend to be together. The two begin to spend more time together which creates an interesting opposite attract dynamic. As expected, each of them begins to have some real feelings for each other, but both are afraid to move towards making their fake relationship a reality.

As this story features fake dating, I already went into it with high expectations as it is one of my favorite tropes. I am thrilled that this novel lived up to the hype I built up in my head as it was a joy to read from start to finish. Not only was the main couple, Dean and Solange, sweet, but they also had great chemistry where their attraction was apparent along with the emotional connection they shared. The novel was a great update on Max and Lina while introducing the new couple of Dean and Solange. I love that Solange’s Brazilian culture was explored in the novel. It was well incorporated into the story, and I love Solange’s family was included. The relationship that develops between Dean and Solange is heartwarming as they each learn and grow from each other as well as develop on their own. I do wish that the feelings developed a little slower as I greatly enjoy a slow burn, but I enjoyed their journey to fully saying them out loud to each other. This novel was a very enjoyable read and I hope that Jaslene is able to get her own story soon!

**I give a special thank you to Netgalley and the publisher, Avon and Harper Voyager, for the opportunity to read this enjoyable novel. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.**

Thank you to Harper Collins for sending me an e-ARC to read and review! The Wedding Crasher was an adorable read and I really loved the use of fake dating here. I thought Dean and Solange fit so well together and I enjoyed seeing them figure out how to be with each other. Weddings were the foreground theme of the book and it's always so fun. I also liked all the insight into Brazilian food and culture, and thd family dynamics were so heartwarming. This book was also pretty funny, there were genuinely times I was laughing out loud with the banter and commentary. Don't let the cartoon cover fool you, this book definitely had spicy moments too and those were also a blast. Both characters were vulnerable and their emotions felt so real. Overall this was a cute read!