In case you live under a rock—or have never read any of my reviews—fake relationships are the apple to my pie. There is absolutely nothing I love more than a fun and romantic fake relationship story with lovable characters, a bunch of it’s-getting-hot-in-here moments and even more falling-off-my-chair-from-all-the-swooning moments. You could say my expectations for books containing a fake relationship are beyond sky-high. Well… guess what?! The Wedding Date just surpassed all of those expectations and became one of my favorite books containing a fake couple AND one of my all-time favorite books.
Alexa and Drew met in an elevator. As life would have it, the elevator got stuck while Alexa was on her way to her sister’s hotel room and while Drew was on his way to his hotel room. From the get-go the connection between them was undeniable. They talked, bantered, laughed and had a great time while stuck in that elevator. Too soon it was time for them to go back to their respective rooms but Drew couldn’t just let her go so he asked her to go to his ex’s wedding. Alexa couldn’t say no and suddenly they were pretending to be boyfriend and girlfriend for the weekend. But how can you walk away from an amazing weekend like the one they had and go back to normality? You can’t!! And so their relationship… or whatever… started.
I AM SO IN LOVE WITH ALEXA. I love her. I want to be like her. I want her skin. I want her intelligence. I want her social skills. I want her boyfriend. I really do have a girl crush like they say in that one song I can’t stop listening to. She is amazing, there is no other way to describe her. From the beginning she put a humongous grin on my face because I could relate to a lot of things she said. She broke my heart when I read her thoughts about not being skinny/blonde/tall enough for Drew to like her and then she pieced my heart back together when all of those thoughts flew out the window and she was her beautiful, confident, polite self even in a room full of people she didn’t know and she never pretended to be anyone else. Alexa is one of those character you just can’t help but love because they are so true to themselves.
I am also so in love with Drew. Except from those couple of moments where I wanted to grab him by the shoulders and shake him until he came to his senses. He—like I’ve said a million and one times before in my fake relationships reviews—is everything I could ask for in a male character. He is confident without being cocky, fun, intelligent (he’s a doctor!), hardworking and sends donuts instead of flowers (it can’t get better than that!). Drew has some issues when it comes to relationships getting serious. He dates from a month or two and then tells his girlfriend at the time that they should just stay friends. That may or may not be the reason I wanted to shake him until he came to his senses but you’ll have to pick up this book if you want to know the truth.
I rarely mention if a book is too graphic or not but I know some of y’all are not really into the very graphic sex scenes so I’m going to talk a bit about that. You know how in some movies they do that fade to black thing when things are getting hot? The same happens in this book. Kind of. It implies something happened and you know exactly what happened without all the details which I absolutely loved. It’s still cheeks-blushing-tomato-red steamy though!
I can’t believe this is Jasmine Guillory’s first book. That woman is talented with a capital T. I’m looking forward to her upcoming books and I know she will have an amazing career as an author. Definitely keep an eye out for her!
In a nutshell The Wedding Date is a beautiful book about a long distance relationship, a fake relationship, real love, a white guy with commitment issues, donuts, beautiful San Francisco and shiny Los Angeles, a curvy black woman, an elevator and coffee in the mornings. If that doesn’t make you want to immediately pick up this book then I don’t know what will… just kidding. It would mean I didn’t do a great job but I’m crossing my fingers you at least add it to your TBR list after reading this review! That would be a win!
Alexa and Drew met in an elevator. As life would have it, the elevator got stuck while Alexa was on her way to her sister’s hotel room and while Drew was on his way to his hotel room. From the get-go the connection between them was undeniable. They talked, bantered, laughed and had a great time while stuck in that elevator. Too soon it was time for them to go back to their respective rooms but Drew couldn’t just let her go so he asked her to go to his ex’s wedding. Alexa couldn’t say no and suddenly they were pretending to be boyfriend and girlfriend for the weekend. But how can you walk away from an amazing weekend like the one they had and go back to normality? You can’t!! And so their relationship… or whatever… started.
I AM SO IN LOVE WITH ALEXA. I love her. I want to be like her. I want her skin. I want her intelligence. I want her social skills. I want her boyfriend. I really do have a girl crush like they say in that one song I can’t stop listening to. She is amazing, there is no other way to describe her. From the beginning she put a humongous grin on my face because I could relate to a lot of things she said. She broke my heart when I read her thoughts about not being skinny/blonde/tall enough for Drew to like her and then she pieced my heart back together when all of those thoughts flew out the window and she was her beautiful, confident, polite self even in a room full of people she didn’t know and she never pretended to be anyone else. Alexa is one of those character you just can’t help but love because they are so true to themselves.
I am also so in love with Drew. Except from those couple of moments where I wanted to grab him by the shoulders and shake him until he came to his senses. He—like I’ve said a million and one times before in my fake relationships reviews—is everything I could ask for in a male character. He is confident without being cocky, fun, intelligent (he’s a doctor!), hardworking and sends donuts instead of flowers (it can’t get better than that!). Drew has some issues when it comes to relationships getting serious. He dates from a month or two and then tells his girlfriend at the time that they should just stay friends. That may or may not be the reason I wanted to shake him until he came to his senses but you’ll have to pick up this book if you want to know the truth.
I rarely mention if a book is too graphic or not but I know some of y’all are not really into the very graphic sex scenes so I’m going to talk a bit about that. You know how in some movies they do that fade to black thing when things are getting hot? The same happens in this book. Kind of. It implies something happened and you know exactly what happened without all the details which I absolutely loved. It’s still cheeks-blushing-tomato-red steamy though!
I can’t believe this is Jasmine Guillory’s first book. That woman is talented with a capital T. I’m looking forward to her upcoming books and I know she will have an amazing career as an author. Definitely keep an eye out for her!
In a nutshell The Wedding Date is a beautiful book about a long distance relationship, a fake relationship, real love, a white guy with commitment issues, donuts, beautiful San Francisco and shiny Los Angeles, a curvy black woman, an elevator and coffee in the mornings. If that doesn’t make you want to immediately pick up this book then I don’t know what will… just kidding. It would mean I didn’t do a great job but I’m crossing my fingers you at least add it to your TBR list after reading this review! That would be a win!