Thank you to St. Martin's Press for an advanced reader copy.
Wilsner entices us with another spicy queer romance, this time set in the midwest! Elsie has been engaged to her fiance for over a year and a half and finds out he has decided to plan their entire wedding, including their honeymoon, without her. She breaks off the engagement and takes her best friend, Ginny. Only Ginny has been in love with her best friend for years. they head off to what was supposed to be elsie’s honeymoon and come home forever changed.

Another steamy queer romance from Meryl Wilsner! There was a lot I enjoyed about this book, mainly: the friends to lovers trope that was actually done well, immaculate tropical vacation vibes, and complicated family dynamics. I was invested in their relationship and the spicy scenes were top tier! I do wish there had been more time spent on character development with their families/jobs as they made the later storylines a bit shallow but overall a good beach read.

Meryl Wilsner delivers a charming, heartfelt rom-com with a twist in My Best Friend's Honeymoon. When Cass ends up taking her best friend’s place on a honeymoon meant for two, sparks fly between her and the resort concierge, Rowan. What starts as a relaxing getaway quickly turns into something much more romantic and unexpected.

With Wilsner’s signature warmth, witty dialogue, and queer representation, the story blends humor and emotion seamlessly. It’s a sweet, low-stakes love story perfect for fans of cozy, feel-good romance with just the right amount of spice.

Perfect for: Readers who love slow-burn queer romance, vacation escapism, and a strong emotional core.

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and to NetGalley for an advanced copy of My Best Friend’s Honeymoon. After Elsie’s fiancé springs a planned wedding only a week away, she is forced to decide whether she really wants to marry him. After deciding she’d rather not, he insists that she takes her best friend on their already paid for honeymoon, but Ginny has been crushing on Elsie for a decade.


I was so so excited for this book. Mistakes were Made is one of my favorite books of all time and I adored Cleat Cute in 2023 as well. However, I felt this lacked some of the spark those two had for me. The beginning/set up was interesting and well written and I thought the premise was unique. But the characters lacked a little bit of the chemistry that Wilsner’s other books had and the middle section just got boring and repetitive (like I get it but a little too much banging). Maybe my expectations were just too high after the last two but overall it’s still an entertaining sapphic romance with good non-binary representation.

I never thought I could dislike a Meryl Wilsner book but here we are. I did not believe any connection between our FMCs, even though they were supposed to be best friends their whole life? The beginning premise of holding out on making wedding plans as a way to (sub)consciously avoid the actual marriage?? You lost me there but there was no redemption.

Oh this was so beautiful! I loved the character development, I loved the family dynamics, I loved the love! I appreciated the pronoun preferences and think that was an important element to represent non-binary people. I really liked that they both grew forward separately and also were able to grow as two people who love each other, in whatever way they define that.

I really liked this book! It was nice reading a nb/f romance because you don’t see that often. I also tend to enjoy friends to lovers and this one was done well! I do wish the romance had been expanded upon a bit more - like more *feelings* and whatnot - during the actual trip rather than just sex scene after sex scene, but I think that’s my only complaint tbh!

TW: sexual content, homophobia, transphobia

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

This is my favourite Meryl Wilsner book, hands down! (And I really loved the others!). This book has the heat from "Mistakes Were Made", the spunk from "Cleat Cute", and the swoopy feelings in "Something to Talk About". For real, buy this book!!!!

After "Cleat Cute", I literally said to my spouse, "I loved this book, I love this author. I just wish that they would write something that focuses on a fat, nonbinary person, because they have the lived experience to create such a great character that we don't see often. Why do they keep writing skinny femmes being into each other?" And then enter GINNY!! <3 Let me tell you, dear reader, that I squealed when I found out we have a fat, nonbinary, masc-leaning lead in Ginny, and they DID NOT DISAPPOINT! Kay, y'all, the spice was spiiiiiicin'! What I love about Wilsner is that they write unapologetically queer. They write messy, taboo, and *realistic* intimacy between the characters that I can see myself and my community reflected in. I adored that so much of this book and the theme of recentring your own needs/desires was intertwined with intimacy but also moved beyond that space. It made sense that these characters were banging and also figuring out life things (and how the banging helped them figure out the life things). Incredibly well done; I am, as always, in awe of Meryl Wilsner and their talent for storytelling.

I also love the pacing in this book. Some other reviewers mention being frustrated by the pacing, but I really loved that we didn't follow the traditional movement of a romance book. It made sense to the characters and the story for them to get together earlier in the story, and for the conflict to arise just over halfway through instead of in the 3rd act. I also think the lessons learned in the third act are so vital, that I'm glad we took time to sit with these characters as long as we did before our HEA. This isn't a cookie-cutter book, it leads with a lot of heart and a lot of wisdom that we get in this non-traditional 3rd act. And I'm incredibly pleased that we got to the steamy parts relatively early in the story, lol.

If you're a mood / seasonal reader like me, I recommend you read this book if you're enjoying a Caribbean vacation. It's set in mid-Winter Minnesota (so think cold as hell + snow) and Santa Lupita was the perfect holiday escape destination. I was saving this book to take with me on my own tropical vacation with my spouse, but we had to unfortunately reschedule the vacation. BUT, this book made me feel like I was still on the beach instead of enduring 3rd Winter Canada.

Read this book, and thank me later!! If you're sleeping on this one rn, idk what you're doing... READ IT!

This book didn't exactly follow the path of a traditional romance, with the conflict happening before the halfway point. Ginny and Elsie had to work on themselves in order to be the right romantic partner for each other, rather than everything magically being okay after their trip together. The chemistry between them, and the amount of love right from the start was so good. I loved their love.

And whew! Did Meryl ever turn up the heat with this book. It was face-melting hot. And so very queer. One of the things that I appreciated the most about this book was the queer community that Ginny immersed themselves in during the time apart from Elsie. That friend group was exactly what they needed.

I wanted to love this. I've loved the other two books by Meryl Wilsner I've read (seriously, the MILF book was SO good), and I knew that this was going to be crazy. It's a spicy F/NB romance that was set up to be just bonkers, and it delivered. It was very gay and very horny and I enjoyed the first 60%, minus the fact that it starts with one main character engaged to someone she doesn't even really like. It's a trope that isn't quite a love triangle, which I hate, but I realized through this book that I also don't like this trope. It comes too close to cheating for my liking, and it doesn't depict healthy relationships, even if eventually it's a healthy relationship.

Speaking of which, the third act break-up happened at the 60% mark, which is actually a second act break-up. And then they didn't get together again until the last chapter. I understand that authors like to show people figuring themselves out, but it's possible to do that with a partner? It doesn't require shutting out your best friend and then being a miserable mopey person for weeks. Unfortunately, that kind of soured this book for me.

This was a fun rom com. I thought the premise was great and appreciated that the ex-fiance wasn't a horrible, terrible guy it was just that they weren't right together.

One thing I didn't love was the whole third act breakup. Spoilers but having it be a lie by omission and overreaction to said lie by omission just wasn't my favourite. The fight felt overly dramatic but I appreciated that the characters each took that and grew from it individually.

Read If You Like:
• Sapphic friends-to-lovers romances
• Tropical vacation settings with emotional depth
• Explorations of personal growth and self-discovery
• Stories featuring nonbinary protagonists
• Spicy Reads  

Elsie Hoffman has been engaged to her college boyfriend for a year and a half. Ginny Holtz has been in love with Elsie for almost a decade and a half. When Elsie discovers her fiancé already planned their wedding and honeymoon as a surprise and she’s expected to be in a white dress in seven days, she swiftly realizes she’s let herself become too comfortable with a future she never wanted. She breaks things off, and a week later is on a plane to the Caribbean for her non-refundable honeymoon with her best friend Ginny instead.    

Ginny thinks it’s high time Elsie learned how to speak up for herself. So, they make a deal with her: for the next week, Elsie can have whatever she wants, wherever, however, and whenever she wants it, as long as she asks. They never expected Elsie to want them. What starts as choosing activities and taking selfies soon turns to toe-curling kisses and much, much more. But what happens when the honeymoon is over?  

Thanks so much to the publisher for my ALC and ARC!

I loved Meryl’s first two books and Mistakes Were Made is one of my all-time favourites. I struggled with Cleat Cute but hoped it was just a blip and had high hopes for this book, but unfortunately, I just didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would.

The premise was great and I really liked the fact that the main character was non-binary and just in general, I liked both main characters but I just couldn’t handle all the miscommunication and the way their relationship went from pining for each other in secret to lots of sex (too much, in my opinion) to what I thought was a very unnecessary conflict to the HAE. It just felt rush and a bit random?

Unfortunately, this wasn’t for me.

Thank you SMP and NetGalley for the arc of this book. All opinions are my own.

MERYLLLLLL! As always, Meryl nailed it. I love the way Meryl writes and this is my favorite yet! I couldn’t get enough. From the first page to the last, this gave. It gave me everything and I wanted to immediately read it again.

The way this book jumped from friends to lovers so fast was crazy. I didn’t feel any tension or buildup, so I didn’t believe it. Where was the yearning?? For them to have supposedly been in love for years I simply don’t believe it.

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for this ARC!

I had a hard time connecting with this book. For the two MC’s to be BFFs there was a lot of topics they didn’t talk about. Like, how do you not talk to your bestie about her wedding? The trip itself also felt like their connection happened far too quick. I find it hard to believe they haven’t gone on vacation before and felt a connection. I just wish we saw more of them outside the trip and more of the reason why she would agree to marry someone only to put it off. Not a bad story, but not the deep bond I was hoping for. 3.25 stars

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc

Love Meryl Wilsner and all their books! This one did not disappoint. I fell in love with the characters and loved the inclusive spicy scenes.

This book was really cute. 🥺 The beginning was okay but where I really felt the story picked up was when Ginny and Elsie are on the honeymoon and decide Elsie gets whatever she wants. And does she ever 🥵 ..Ginny is such a good friend 😉 But really their friendship is so sweet and they're both a little oblivious which was fun!

3.5 ⭐

I will read anything Meryl Wilsner writes, but I could not finish this one! The tropes just weren’t for me. I did buy the characters love for one another or that a cis man planned entire wedding. I did not finish it!

I was offered a copy of this by NetGalley but these are my genuine thoughts. The copy I read may have changed after publication. 3.5 stars rounded up.

My Best Friend’s Honeymoon is a light, feel-good romance with charming moments and a sweet premise. Ginny, in particular, stands out as a genuinely lovable character. Her warmth and good intentions make her easy to root for.

However, while the setup was promising, the romance between Ginny and Elsie felt rushed and lacked the emotional buildup that makes a love story feel earned. Their relationship develops quickly, without enough organic progression or depth to fully invest in their connection. The chemistry was there in moments, but it often felt like the narrative pushed them together rather than letting their bond unfold naturally.

Still, fans of Wilsner’s previous works or those looking for a breezy romantic escape might find enjoyment in the book’s lighter elements and Ginny’s endearing personality.