Miss Match is like ordering a delicious glass of bubbly wine and drinking it all up. It is such a quirky, heart-warming, and laugh out loud funny book. And the chemistry between the main characters is top notch!

Blake hires Andrea to be his matchmaker. He instructs her to find him a wife – someone who meets his expectations of a docile woman. Basically his ideal woman is everything that Andrea is not (full of sass and attitude)…and Blake is everything in a man that Andrea does not want in her life (arrogant and self-serving). Except not everything is the way it appears on the surface, and the more these two spend time together, the more layers are revealed. And Andrea has never backed down from a challenge before, so why start now?

From the beginning of Miss Match, the chemistry between Blake and Andrea is there but, they try their hardest to ignore it. Andrea is such a fun character – smart and outspoken and very good at reading people including Blake. Andrea throws Blake off his game, and it is so funny to watch. He is used to be the man in control and he is anything but that when he is around her. He continuously sticks his foot in his mouth but, he actually apologizes to her and tries to be a better person around her. There are so many laugh out loud moments when he sticks his foot in his mouth though. I think these are also when some of the best chemistry is shown.

As I would a bubbly glass of wine, I thoroughly enjoyed Miss Match. I’m a fan of snarky banter in romance novels and this one had it in spades. And it also kept me on the edge of my seat with the will they/won’t they cross the line between boss/employee to something more. I would recommend this one to anyone who also enjoys snarky banter, top notch chemistry, and tons of laughter while reading a romance. I’m so glad that these characters decided to look beyond the surface of their ideal matches!

I lost interest in this title, and will not be reviewing it officially. Thanks so much for the opportunity.

At first I was a bit put off by Blake, but as I got into the story, I did a 180 and fell quite in love with both Andrea and Blake. The story was unique in how ridiculous Blake's requirements were for his wife to be. Overall the story had wit and humor and was very enjoyable.

WHY I READ IT:

I chose to read Miss Match by Laurelin McGee because I was in the middle of another book with heavier themes at the time and while I was enjoying it, I witnessed a tragic car accident and it made a pretty big impact on me. I was stuck in the traffic, watching this tragedy unfold, listening to the audiobook of this great literary novel…and there was so much death inside of that book. Later that night, I just didn’t want to return to such a heavy story, so I flipped through my Kindle and looked for something lighter and more fun. And this is what I settled on.

REVIEW:

I love the premise for this story: a matchmaker that falls in love with her client? Sign me up! Right away, it is obvious that Blake and Andy have chemistry and I love that the authors wrote in some humor as well – these things are always a plus for me in fun contemporary romances. But hear me when I say that Blake begins the story as a misogynistic jerk. Now — he does develop as a character and change for the better, but it takes a little while. I know that some readers enjoy alpha-male romance characters, but Blake’s personality just does not come across as sexy to me; he. is. a. complete. ass. Or at least he is in the first part of the story. The bright side of this is that since he has wonderful character development over the course of the story, Blake ends up being pretty great. Andy, the female lead, is more likable from the beginning, but she isn’t perfect either (although I’m pretty sure that she felt the same way about Blake that I do).

This story itself was cute. But I think I could have loved it just a little bit more. I would have loved to know more about Blake, like why on earth he felt and acted the way he did at the beginning of the book? I know I’m picking on him quite a bit here, but his personality in the beginning of the story prevented me from really falling for him like I could have.

Ultimately, Blake and Andy made me roll my eyes a lot and they made me a little crazy, but this really was a fun story to read and it was exactly what I needed when I chose it from my Kindle library. I’m really glad that the two got their happily ever after. I’m also excited that this seems to be a completed series that isn’t long or tedious; the Miss Match series is a duet plus a novella. The second book features Lacy, Andy’s sister. I liked Lacy so much in this story and I’m excited to read her installment after I read the novella.