Falling Hard
Samara Jones
Romantic Comedy
Here is the thing about best friends: they are not supposed to get engaged. Especially not when you have spent years swearing you are totally, absolutely, one hundred percent not in love with them.
Olivia Fox is fine. She is more than fine. She is the confident, competent heiress to a fashion empire with a job she loves and girlfriends who moonlight as her therapists, investigators, and occasional partners in crime. She is not, I repeat not, spiraling just because Luke Forrester, her ride-or-die since childhood, suddenly decided to propose to someone who is… not her.
Except maybe she is spiraling. Just a little. Because Luke wants her to be his best man. Which basically means standing by while he marries the wrong woman. And Olivia? She is not built for that.
So now she is juggling two impossible tasks: processing the feelings she has buried for years, and plotting the kind of wedding sabotage that would make one friend proud while sending the other two into panic mode. All while smiling sweetly and pretending she is supportive.
Totally doable. Right?
The countdown to “I do” is on, and Olivia is about to discover that falling in love with your best friend is messy, inconvenient, and possibly the funniest disaster of her life.
Uncaged Review: While Olivia Fox is pleasuring Zac, her best friend, Luke Forrester calls her. Olivia answers the phone and Luke tells her that he proposed to his girlfriend Solenne. Olivia can’t believe Luke has the gall to do that. Luke is supposed to ask her to marry him, not someone else. Olivia’s goal is to plan the wedding but also must sabotage the wedding without losing Luke in the process. Will Olivia be able to do it or will Luke end up married to the wrong girl?
I enjoy romcoms and this book is perfect fodder for a romcom. Yes, it reminded me of My Best Friend’s Wedding and did channel that, but the hero and heroine end up together, which my romantic heart did like. This book is big on the miscommunication trope and even warns readers that if you don’t like it to stay away from reading it. Now this trope isn’t one of my favorites because I end up either hating the characters at the end of it or yelling at their stupidity, but I figured the cover was beautiful, and I had the warning, so I knew what I was getting into. Olivia, the woman whore was just ungrateful and I really hated her. I couldn’t stand the way she treated Luke and kept hoping he would end up with someone else. The only thing that kept me reading was Olivia’s friends and, of course, Luke. In fact, I kind of felt sorry for him and was hoping he would stay with Solenne because she treated him very well. It is a good short read and, over all over not a badly written story. Reviewed by Roslynn Ernst
4 Stars
