The fake relationship trope is twice as much fun as usual when a lively, meddling family is in on the secret! Solange crashes a wedding of two strangers when she finds out the bride is in love with someone else, When the groom, Dean, needs to pretend to have a girlfriends, Solange figures she owes him one. Soon things are no longer pretend as practical Dean realizes how much Solange brightens up his world. She, however, isn't ready to settle down and Dean isn't ready to put his heart on the line. How will this pretend relationship end?

Mia Sosa returns with another heartfelt romp, hilarious, steamy and guaranteed to keep you turning the pages to see how it turns out!

The Wedding Crasher is exactly what it claims to be: a quick, fun romance between Dean, a man who believes in his life plan, and Solange, the woman who crashed his wedding.

I just couldn't get into this book. There was practically no chemistry between the two leads until about half way into the story and by then I just didn't care enough to be invested in them. I love a good fake dating scheme but the multiple fake dating scenarios were just ridiculous and so many scenes felt random and out of place (going from a sex party to her cousin giving birth gave me whiplash). I also felt the ending was super out of character for both of them.

This was such a fun romantic comedy with a plot that should have felt convoluted but never was. A double fake dating trope is exactly my catnip. I didn't love The Worst Best Man, but this was a delight.

I love romance books. I swear I do. But at this point I think I'm over it.
The Wedding Crasher is a sweet book with a very interesting premise that, somehow, doesn't come off as unrealistic. The progression of Solange and Dean's relationship is natural and I often found myself rooting for them. The humor, too, worked very well. I will say the writing felt stiff at times, but it wasn't so reocurring as to annoy me. But the problem always comes at the 70%-80% mark, by which point I'm completely done and ready for it to be over. One particular conflict in this novel also felt extra silly, considering it had a very easy solution that, for some reason, none of the characters thought of?
And I must say, after reading this I am unsure as to why people ask for representation in books so much. As a brazilian myself I found the mixing of portuguese and english absolutely horrifying to read, and could do without so many coxinha mentions.

I read and enjoyed the first book in this rom-com series (The Worst Best Man) last year, and after binging The Wedding Crasher in a single sitting yesterday, I think Mia Sosa has a really great thing going here! I know she's not new to writing romance, but between these two books at least, it feels like she really hit her stride with this one. The social world of the story, which centers on our MC Solange's extensive Afro-Brazilian-American family (including Lina from book 1 and a close-knit set of first cousins who I'm hoping each get their own romances in this series?) is delightful and refreshing. Like the love interest, Dean, by the end of the story I was longing for Solange's tías to adopt me and feed me sandwiches, haha! (So much good food in this book btw). The more I think about it, the more I really admire the story and characters Sosa has put forth here. This is a great example of what romance can be in the "post-Me-Too era" with thoughtfulness surrounding consent in its many forms/layers (if I had a daughter, I'd recommend it to her for this reason). While it's a rom-com and the premise is fantastical (fake dating, yes please!!), the conflict felt emotionally realistic to me. The two MCs aren't unnecessarily bad communicators or oblivious to what's in front of them, but people genuinely trying to do right by each other and be careful with each other's hearts, all while figuring out their unexpected yet powerful attraction and how it fits into their lives. The personal growth that takes place for each of them is subtle but honest, and it rings true for this "aging millenial" of a similar age to the MCs. Long story short, I loved this one. I think it will appeal to more avid romance readers and to contemporary fiction readers alike!

This fake dating romcom is a winner.
Thoroughly delightful, implausible fun. The angst is low and the writing is frothy. A jilted, romance skeptical groom enlists the wedding crasher who doomed his nuptials to play his girlfriend for work reasons. Multicultural in the best way (organic and specific), laugh out loud funny, sweet and HOT. Plus it’s got interesting plot twists.
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This book will have you laughing so hard you'll cry! Not only is this a modern "marriage of convenience" trope, but also has my other favorite trope - fake dating! Add in a wedding crasher who thinks the groom is making a mistake after she finds out the bride is in a situation (not with the groom!). If you loved The Worst Best Man then you'll love this book!

Okay so first of thank you to the publishers for giving me an ARC of this book!!!

This book has the fake dating trope and it was so good. The romance between the two characters was amazing, they had so much chemistry and Solange was so funny. Like Dean and her were so different but at the same time they fit so well. The plot was very unique I liked the aspect in the beginning too where Solange was the one who ruined Dean’s wedding and then at the end they actually are together. I just thought that was funny asf. Also, I loved the fact that the main character was Brazilian. I’m also Brazilian so it was nice to be represented. This book has a dual pov too. It makes the book so much more interesting. Everything about this book was amazing. I recommend this book. 5/5 stars :)

This book was surely much better than THE WORST BEST MAN, but after reading two books by the author, i have realised that this author is really not for me.
this is honestly just my take, and while i did enjoy it, it didn't stand out and it didn't wow me. there was nothing different about this book so yeah.
there was insta-love and this book was very heavy on trope and that just clearly doesn't work for me.

What's not to like about a book that features wedding crashing, fake dating, friends with benefits, axe-throwing, and an extended Brazilian family with the added bonus of a sex party and simulated birth shenanigans? If you're anything like me, you'd say nothing. Then you'd probably aggressively clap your hands and levitate off your sofa with glee because what a romance trope "du jour!"

Am I right...or am I right?

Anyway, the story begins when Solange Pereira objects in the middle of a wedding ceremony because she'd overhead the bride declare her love earlier, only, to a man who happened not to be the groom, and she can't let that go without speaking up. Not in good conscience, that is. Not until the groom knows the truth.

After all, what could be worse than marrying someone you don't love or who doesn't love you?

To Solange's surprise, Dean - the jilted groom - doesn't seem bothered by the fact that his bride is enamored with someone else. In fact, it turns out their wedding wasn't about love at all. It was a plan. Part of an itemized checklist. It was nothing more than a marriage of convenience that was supposed to help him get ahead in his life and career.

Solange doesn't know what to make of that. They talk for a bit, flirt, then part ways.

When things start to implode for him at the office after that, with his floundering mess of a personal life now threatening his chance at acquiring a coveted promotion, Dean enlists Solange's help. Begging her be his fake girlfriend for a few work events. She, still feeling guilty about imploding his nuptials like a wrecking ball, of course, agrees.

So what starts out as a stranger-ruined wedding soon becomes a fake relationship which then spirals into something a little more than "just" friendly...

Solange and Dean are fun, engaging characters. Cute as far as book couples go. They have an interesting dynamic because they start off as strangers as well as opposites: with Dean being the kind of guy who's stringent, focused, and skeptical of love, but who has his whole life mapped out multiple choice style; and with Solange being the type of woman who is spontaneous, extroverted, and free-spirited, yet staunch in her convictions, which means she refuses to invest in a man or a relationship unless both parties are all in. (Three cheers for a girl who knows her worth! Woot woot!)

The two have different wants when it comes to love and romance so that's the major obstacle sitting between them from the outset. However, the lovely thing about that is they're able to build a friendship that's built on genuine like, comfort, and communication FIRST before they think about acting on their mutual attraction to one another. I have a preference for slowburn, so their dawdling romantic progress worked well for me.

Overall I thought this was cute and entertaining, if a bit flat in places. I loved the multicultural feel of the story with the tias and the Brazilian dishes and the Portuguese. I've been teaching myself the language since the pandemic began so the dialogue between Solange and her family members added a little something extra for me.

This one's perfect for spring wedding season! Or simply for those of you who are in need of a big slice of fluff in your reading life.

3.5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon Harper and Voyager for the ARC in exchange for my review.

Solange and Dean are steamy and cute in the perfect follow up to The Worst Best Man. I love fake dating tropes and even though I sorta predicted the end, the journey to get there was great.

This book!!!!! Mia Sosa!!!! I binged The Worst Best Man so seeing this book filled me with joy. Dean is getting married! Until he isnt. Solange overhears something she shouldn’t and interrupts Dean’s wedding. Dean is doing shockingly good until something comes up that could prevent him from making partner at work. Dean asks Solange to fake date and their relationship goes from there. This book was sooo good. I honestly cannot recommend it enough. It stands up to The Worst Best Man, if not surpassing it!

Mia does it again! I loved her first book in this series and this one was a joy as well. A perfect rom-com read.

This was a fun book with one of my favorite tropes- fake dating! The characters were lovable and the plot line engaging!

This book is perfect for people who love the fake-dating trope. Personally, I found the book to be a little cheesy and predictable - and usually fake-dating stories are.

I felt that the attraction between Dean and Solange happened too fast, and while it can be believable, I just don't vibe with insta-love. The Dean character in this book seems to be a whole different and unrecognizable one from The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa, which I guess can be considered book one in this series. There are appearances and mentions of the characters from that book in this one that I'm sure many will enjoy reading about again. However, there is a really disgusting scene that the author tries to make sound romantic, and I was appalled - let's just say this book isn't for the younger crowd. Another thing that I can't say I enjoyed was that everything was so dramatic and over-the-top that even the attempts at humor weren't funny.

This book is going to be released on April 5, 2022. If you love a good love story that starts with fake-dating, then you're in for a treat. Unfortunately, this book didn't live up to the hype for me.

I loved the start of the book, Solange really being brave and putting it out there. But from there, I started to lose interest in the fake dating trope as it unfolded. The rest was so so for me.

Thank you to Avon and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review

CW: parental abandonment (past), cheating (not MCs relationship)

This is the second book in the series but can be read entirely as a standalone

I would recommend if you're looking for (SPOILERS)

-m/f fake dating
-only one bed
-let's get this out of our systems
-accidental visit to a sex party
-opposites attract
-breaking up a wedding

I loved this book so much. The perfect escape, I maybe even enjoyed it more than the first one? I love that this series is set in DC, it was so wonderful to see the familiar setting. I loved Dean and Solange. Both raised by single moms and damaged in their own ways. Solange refusing to accept anything but love and stoic Dean pushing love away.

Everything about this book just pulls you in. The meet cute at his wedding which she breaks up. The fake dating, his Channing Tatum impression, and the accidental visit to a sex party. One can only hope its continued in a deleted scene somewhere we will one day be blessed with. Watching these two deny their feelings and pretend they weren't falling for the other was so delicious. Dean just gone on her, refusing to admit it was love and Solange scared to trust it all. Honestly one of my most favorite executions of the fake dating trope in a long time.

I am ready for more in this series.

Steam: 4

This was a good fake dating story. I wasn't quite feeling the chemistry between these two characters, but the family relationships between the cousins and their mothers/aunts is lovely. Although this wasn't the best contemporary romance I've read lately, it was still solid and enjoyable and I will be recommending it to fans of fake dating tropes and latinx romance.

If you love fake dating, forced proximity, and a cute romance overall then you'll love The Wedding Crasher.

Solange who's supposed to be helping out her wedding planner cousin did not expect to crash the wedding, literally. When Solange overhears a bride confessing love...and it isn't to her intended, she decides to fess up and save the groom from making a mistake. Dean, our unsuspecting groom, is a planner, and getting married was one of them until Solange decided to scrub the task from his list. Realising Solange owes him big time, Dean comes to collect when he needs a partner to land a promotion at his law firm. What starts out as fake dating quickly evolves into a friendship *with benefits* and then into something more.

I absolutely loved Solange's family and we see characters from The Worst Best Man make an appearance in here as well. Although Solange and Dean couldn't be more different than each other, there is one thing they have in common which is trusting someone enough to fall in love. Both of them have seen their mothers raising them alone and get hurt in the name of love. As a result, they both decided that love wasn't in the cards for them and while Solange respected that idea, she also had hope for love. Their journey towards accepting love was beautiful to watch and so were the scenes between them which were steamier than the previous book. Also, I totally did not expect Dean to go 'Magic Mike' on me... err, on Solange!

This was another amazing book from Mia Sosa and I can't wait to read the next one. For fake dating lovers everywhere, please add The Wedding Crasher to your tbr!!

Thanks to the publisher for an eARC in exchange for my honest review.