Fake Marriage to her Best Friend, by Kat Cantrell

[sophia_sol]

At first I was just mildly annoyed at this book for things like not doing enough to make me believe the fake marriage was a reasonable idea for the characters in question, and then making the premise less fun by having both characters already into each other before they even get fake married. Also the book opens with the female lead getting a large batch of posters from a printshop with a mis-spelling of her name and I was just like. HOW. Either she provided the design file to the printshop, in which case she made the mistake, or she paid the printshop for design work and did not look at a SINGLE PROOF of the design, so it's also her fault. And then she's mad at the printshop for making the mistake! (I realize this is a niche complaint. But. It's literally how the book opens! It did not start me off on the right foot.) Anyway, I didn't really enjoy the book but I was going to give it a relatively forgiving review.

But then it ends with the aspiring-politician female lead dropping out of politics (which she enjoys and is good at!) for the sake of her man. And now, instead of being like "it's a shallow but well meaning book that doesn't work for me" I'm like "I AM ACTIVELY MAD AT THIS." I actually had to go back and read the end a second time because I didn't believe what I'd read. HOW DARE. Honestly! Well, I guess this is what I get for picking up a book from the Kobo free ebook shelf.

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[sophia_sol]

Hah! Yes, that's a much more satisfying way to run with that particular plot point!