The Wedding Date
Jasmine Guillory
2/5
This is me going on my contemporary binge for the year because really they're kind of cute and fun. I didn't really like this one much though, like funny premise and decent characters, everything just wasn't clicking. Alexa is the chief of staff for a mayor, she's career-driven and focused on bettering the world. Drew is a pediatric surgeon with commitment issues who hasn't dated a girl longer than two months in years- though he's nice about it, he's just afraid of hurting them like he did his last serious girlfriend.
You expect a certain amount of obligatory stuff when you read books like this, it's watching Hallmark Christmas movies. You don't watch them to be wowed by the plot, you don't read these looking for much in terms of originality. I appreciated how there was inclusion and acceptance and everything, for racial issues and body shape issues, but like I didn't need all of the trashing of other people. I think we can understand that the character is curvy without you calling her curvy every five seconds.
Aside from that there were just some generally weird warning signs throughout the book. When you read their interactions and you think hm this might not be totally ok? Like when he gets mad at her for moving or says that she should be complimenting or idolizing him for being a doctor? Weird and against that whole nice-guy thing they were trying to do. The communication sucked in general, it gave me so much anxiety cause they were literally just not talking about their issues and then BAM everything was solved and they were engaged.
Wouldn't recommend it, surprised I even finished it but when you have nothing else on your phone you know how it is.
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