Started this book in April 2023 did not finish until early 2024
To be honest I got this excited for a new series from this author I enjoyed the Fire Balls and Copper Valley Thruster's series. I wanted to give it a chance and I just had a hard time reading it... seriously I pushed through to finish the book but I had to take breaks to read other books and finally finished it about a year after I started it.
Potential spoilers:
The leading male character Theo seems like a kind hearted guy who wants to see his sister's wedding go the way she wants it even though she is going to be marrying a jerk.
The bride is unaware that her husband to be has asked Theo to pay for the wedding and knows that her brother is one for pranks and possibly agitating the groom so she requests her best friend Laney (female lead) to "baby sit" her brother, I feel this whole situation is pretty insulting they are adults and besides a few small pranks he hasn't done anything to need a "sitter" he is the one trying to make her dream destination wedding happen.
Laney is the opposite of Theo, in that she is made out to be a stuffy boring business lady to his fun party guy life style. She doesn't want to be near Theo but agrees because she also wants the wedding to be exactly how her best friend wants her big day to be. So she ends up in the same Bungalow as Theo there are two rooms but he is hiding a cat and her kittens in the spare room which he doesn't want anyone to know about. The couch is broken so they end up in bed together.
There were a series of ridiculous never going to happen events (like an incident in a rental car where they end up close enough together to get off when a wild boar rams the vehicle) to push the lead characters closer together, and Theo has a bigger "secret" (bigger than hiding kittens) about how he makes his money another friend at the wedding knows the secret but she is keeping it to herself and this drags on for over half the book where you are just wanting them to tell you how he became so wealthy already.
Might have been slightly better if it was shorter and not as repetitive it felt like every few pages it talked about Theo's unknown secret money making job, Laney being plain and boring and not wanting her parents to be upset by seeing her in Theo's company (they are close to or over 30 years old totally fine to hang out with who you want to at that age). Lots of the same thoughts from the characters repeated chapter after chapter.
I have enjoyed other books by this author but this one was not for me.
Have you read this book? How did you feel about it?
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