Thank you to Netgalley and to Avon and Harper Voyager for a copy of The Wedding Crasher to review. I honestly really loved this book. It was fun, steamy, tension-filled, and realistic. The premise of the novel, while maybe just a tad bit far-fetched, felt new and fresh. I was a little concerned in the beginning of the novel that Dean, the male protagonist, would be too obnoxious and clueless but I was very happy with the character development he has throughout the story. And as a DC resident I loved all of the Washington DC references, they were specific and very relevant. Overall, I thought it was a really strong novel (with great Latinx representation from a Latinx author) that will make the perfect summer beach read for romance readers.

Since I"m not a huge fan of the fake dating trope, take this with a grain of salt... I did enjoy reading this, but the storyline just wasn't for me. However, the open door steamy scenes were definitely worth the read and pulled this along for those that are not fans of fake dating (which let's be honest, has anyone ever done in real life? Just communicate people!).

Solange is helping at a wedding when she hears the bride in a precarious situation. So, she stops the wedding. When Dan, the groom, needs a fake girlfriend to help him move forward at work, he enlists Solange. Solange finally agrees and of course, craziness and love occurs.

I enjoyed this book, but the storyline was a little out there for me. I enjoyed the romance of it and how it all worked out as it should.

Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Thank you to the publisher and Net Galley for this review copy!

I absolutely loved this book. I am actually really starting to love this author, Mia Sosa. She comes up with the weirdest scenarios and I am absolutely here for it . Her first book was "has to work together with the fiancé-who-left-me-at-the-altar's brother" and then this one was "has to fake date the woman who objected at my wedding" which honestly, is so unrealistic but I LOVED IT. Like, I believed in this weird trope so hard reading it.

This is a romantic comedy, so there isn't much I want to say about the plot, BUT I do want to say something about the characters. Solange, our female POV, has already given up on finding the one and is trying instead to find her worth in what she puts out in the world and her work. She is trying to figure out if she wants to take a job in a different state or stay put and be more near her family. I love that she always kept that decision away from anything romantic and tried to figure it out for her, and for no one else.

Then we have our male POV, Dean, who is a lawyer trying to make partner. I feel like this is almost every trope when involving lawyers, but alas it works. He was marrying someone who "fit the goals of his life" instead of love, which is just crazy to me. So when that falls apart, he tries to still make partner by fake dating Solange.. and he has to work outside the box he gave himself.

I would highly recommend this author. At least this book and The Worst Best Man. They have both been really heart warming and hilarious!

I LOVED THIS BOOK!

I have never read a title by Mia Sosa so I was going in essentially blind. While I knew this was the second in a related “series” having not read the prior title did not in anyway effect my ability to enjoy it.

Solange and Dean are wonderful together, and the amount of spice (and some kink👀) was a welcome surprise!

I loved the family dynamics, loved the slow development of feelings, and honestly I just couldn’t get enough.

This was fake dating done correctly.

I loved the fact that the fake dating wasn’t one sided, they both needed each other for vastly different reasons and the struggle of everything colliding was just *chefs kiss.*

A more detailed review to come with my full post but I loved this one and can’t wait for more!

4.5 stars! I did not read book 1 but I did love book 2! the spice in this book was pretty good! Not like the forceful type of spice and I absolutely loved the dynamic between each of the characters! I recommend reading this book because I was feeling all sort of emotions and I think you all will too!

“The Wedding Crasher” by Mia Sosa
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Release Date: 4/5/22

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC! I absolutely loved this one. It pulled me in from the beginning and kept my interest the entire time.

Solange is helping her wedding planner cousin and her only job is to keep order. When she hears the bride confess her love for someone else in the stairwell she can’t seem to shake the dread. When the officiant asked if anyone objected Solange found herself raising her hand. The official wedding Crasher. She has to explain the conversation she overhears to the groom Dean. He explained in confidence that he was getting married out of convenience for the next step in his life.
Fast forward the next week when Dean finds himself needing a fake girlfriend to impress his Law Office for an assignment and now he finds himself in a bind. He needs a fake girlfriend for at least a couple weeks. The only person he can think to pull off the ruse is Solange. She does owe him for crashing his wedding. When Solange agrees he finds himself wanting to spend more and more time with her.

I really enjoyed this one! Bought a copy so I could read it again. Really fun drama and great, interesting characters!

So I think I like this more than the first one. This book seals the deal Mia Sosa is now an auto-buy author for me.
Solange crashes a wedding that in all honesty never should have happened, she meets Dean the groom. Dean is a lawyer with set goals that he had meticulously planned out including not actually marrying for love.
Solange is so scared of making a bad decision she never wanted anything long-term. Solange had plans to leave the DC area at the end of summer.
To impress Dean's bosses he needs an S.O. to help sway a potential associate to the law firm and the first person to come to mind is Solange. Solange needs a pretend boyfriend to keep her intrusive cousins from annoying her mother about her life choices. So fake relationship trope, one bed, and a spur of the moment trip to Vegas ( it's not what you think).
I loved this book. If you have read the first one there is a couple of easter eggs that I found so adorable.

I am a total fan for Mia Soa and will definitely be checking out her next book. I am not the biggest fan of fake dating and wasn’t a fan of the way the book started off. But it was the perfect amount of steam and fun, just one I couldn’t get totally into (a me not you situation).

I might have had really high expectations for this book because I absolutely adored The Worst Best Man and it was a five star read for me.

I want to thank NetGalley, Mia Sosa and Avon and Harper Voyager, Avon for the e-ARC of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are honest, my own and left voluntarily.

This book had a very strong beginning but it just missed the mark for me in the middle of the book. I personally wasn't feeling the chemistry between the two and when I finally got to the first kiss and felt like skimming, I knew I just had to put the book down. I do appreciate the culture that this author brings to her books and that was probably my favorite part.

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Things I loved:
- ꜰᴀᴋᴇ ᴅᴀᴛɪɴɢ
- ᴏɴᴇ ʙᴇᴅ ᴛʀᴏᴘᴇ
- ʟᴀᴜɢʜ ᴏᴜᴛ ʟᴏᴜᴅ ꜰᴜɴɴʏ
- ᴅᴜᴀʟ ᴘᴏᴠ

After reading The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa, I knew that I would read anything else she wrote!

This one was no exception. I loved it from start to finish and was so sad to leave Solange and Dean behind.

This book has everything I love in a romance novel:
✨ fake dating (executed SO well 👏🏼)
✨ the only one bed trope 👀
✨ the best slow burn + steam transition ❤️‍🔥🔥
✨ moments when I literally laughed out loud 😆
✨ extended family dinners (with a great side cast of Brazilian characters who make the most mouth-watering delicious food)
✨ magic mike karaoke IYKYK
✨ strong representation (bipoc & LGBTQ)

Rating: 3.5 stars
This took me a REALLY long time to get into. It was a little bit because I was in a bit of a reading slump, but also a bit that it just gets off to a pretty slow start. I almost DNF'd it about 20% of the way through. I'm glad I kept pushing, because somewhere around the 30% mark (once we FINALLY get to the fake dating part of the story!) it really picked up steam, and then I had a hard time putting it down!

I ADORED the first book in this series, The Worst Best Man. Like, could not rant and rave about it enough, read it all in one gulp, threw it at my friends and forced them to read it level of loved. I think maybe The Wedding Crasher would have been better rated for me if I hadn't gone into it with my expectations SO high.

Also, this doesn't SAY it's the second book in a series, but it's definitely a companion/follow-up novel to The Worst Best Man. Lina and Max, the couple in The Worst Best Man, are very major side characters in this book and there are basically all the spoilers, so if you're planning to read both definitely read this one second. I said in my review of the first book that I wanted to be best friends with a slew of characters, and Dean (one of the leads in this book) was one of them. I don't actually remember Solange from the other book, and I'm hoping some of the other cousins that I loved in this universe will eventually get their own books too (looking at you Jaslene - but really, why not make it a series?)

The chemistry between Solange and Dean falls a bit flat for the first almost half of the book, but by about the midway point it picks up and becomes by turns sweet and smoldering. They get themselves into some real scrapes, but I love the way they both grow and learn to support each other and themselves. I'm really hoping Mia Sosa writes Jaslene's story next!

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for providing me with an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review!

I think this was a fun read with a very interesting premise! Mia Sosa does a fantastic job at writing a humorous romance with great steamy scenes.

I never felt especially connected to the characters though, so it was difficult for me to truly get invested and want to reach for this during the week I read it. Since I didn't feel that I knew the characters well enough, I wasn't able to feel the chemistry between them and I was never really rooting for them or against them. Also, their inner conflict for why they couldn't be together wasn't very convincing, and I found myself frustrated with their inner monologues surrounding this.

I believe this book would be enjoyed most by those who enjoy a slower paced romance or those who are venturing into reading the genre for the first time.

Thanks to Avon (via NetGalley) for the ARC!

3.5 stars

This was a fun follow-up to The Worst Best Man! I didn't know until I started reading it that it was set in the same world (following the same family) because it's not listed as being part of a series on Goodreads, so that was a nice surprise. I really enjoyed TWBM, and I was excited visit this world of close-knit women again.

I love a good fake dating trope, and I enjoyed this one for the most part, but at times this one did seem a little Too Much to me. I'm having a hard time putting my finger on exactly what bugged me about it, but I think it was a couple things: first, the fact that so many other people were roped into the fake dating scheme and were okay with it? Like it's something that happens all the time? Normally when you read fake dating, it's something that is just between the two people who are faking the relationship. But this had Solange's entire family involved in faking out Dean's coworker, and then it extended to faking out Solange's out-of-town relatives as well. It just gave everything that edge of unbelievability to me that made the trope less fun and more of a disaster waiting to happen, in my opinion.

My second complaint gets a little spoilery so skip this paragraph if you don't want to know anything: I also was a little annoyed by both Solange and Dean's inability to admit their feelings for each other until literally 90% into the book. Their chemistry is fabulous, they CLEARLY have feelings for each other but both of them are too stubborn and stuck in their plans (or lack thereof) to do anything about what they clearly want until it's grand gesture time. So that was a little frustrating to me (it just seemed like we needed to get to a reason for a grand gesture because there was no third act breakup in this one--they can't break up when they're not actually dating, so we're being stubborn to the very end instead!)

I did enjoy the book overall, but it took me quite a bit longer to read than a book like this normally would because the fake dating part dragged along for a bit (for me). Overall, not a mind-blowing read, but an enjoyable one

3.5

I continue to love the family dynamics that Mia Sosa includes in her books.

The pony moment had me cackling.

This feels like the closests I've gotten to a real rom com lately and I appreciate that part a lot too.

Solange crashes Dean's marriage of convenience only to end up in a fake dating situation with him. Dean was a planner while Solange was "stuck". This was a cute and fun fake dating/opposites attract read. Mia Sosa writes comedy extremely well and the shenanigans in this book had me cracking up. Fingers crossed for more stories about Solange's family.

Phew was this a fun read! I have had The Worst Best Man on my shelf since it came out and am now regretting not getting to it sooner. Although having a wedding theme, these books are stand-alones. The Wedding Crasher was sexy, sweet, funny and heart-felt. Everything you want in a rom-com. I really like the Brazillian Aunties and influence. My cousin was adopted from Brazil and my brother married a Brazillian woman, so this was especially fun for me to read a little more on their culture. As usual, whenever I read about food or cultural references, it makes me want to visit. Brazil, here I come :)

I’ll admit it’s been forever since I read the Worst Best Man, so I probably didn’t enjoy the cameos of former characters as much as I would have, had that book been fresher. Loved the Tias and family, they pretty much stole the show of this book. This one had double fake dating. ½ of the fake dating seemed totally plausible, the other was a total stretch. There’s some decent banter/chemistry/spice, but I found the middle of the book dragged a bit for me. Overall I enjoyed the story, but sadly didn’t love it quite as much as the first book.