The Wedding Date

Author: Jasmine Guillory
Genre: Chick Lit
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2018
Pages: 336
Rating: Recommend

Synopsis: Agreeing to go a wedding with a guy she gets stuck in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn't normally do. But there's something about Drew Nichols that's hard to resist. 

On the eve of his ex's wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend...

After Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible. Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she's the mayor's chief of staff. Too bad they can't stop thinking about the other...

They're just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long distance dating disaster of the century - or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want...

Review: This was my choice for the February reading prompt in one of my Facebook's group reading challenge, "Read a debut novel by an author of color."

The Wedding Date was the right book at the right time. A little spicy, fun, and light reading as a whole. Alexa and Drew's meeting is improbable, but not impossible, and I think that's partly the appeal of this novel.