Plot Summary

Margo Anderson is sworn off commitment. Alongside her best friend Jo, she runs a viral podcast featuring rules for hooking up without catching feelings. So when Jo surprises her by deciding to get married and takes up a sponsor’s offer to host an all-expenses-paid wedding trip on Catalina Island, they have the whole internet to answer to.

In a scramble for content to appease their disappointed listeners, Margo cooks up a social experiment: break all her own dating rules, just to prove that it’s a bad idea. And she’s found the best man for the job in the groom’s best friend and her old high school nemesis, Declan Walsh. He may be easier on the eyes than Margo remembered, but he’s sure to be as smug and annoying as he was before. There is no chance Margo will ever catch feelings for him…until she does.

The more time they spend together through cake tastings and wedding party activities, Margo can’t ignore their obvious spark, and she may actually be enjoying getting to know Declan. But can she let go of the rules to let him in?

Review

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

I loved this book.

Was it predictable? Yes.

Was it also a good palate cleanser from the mystery novels I’ve been reading lately? Also yes.

We start with Go and Jo, two podcasters that host a dating podcast focused on dating without commitment or getting your heart broken. Kind of like Call Her Daddy, but it seems less explicit and without any guests, but you get the idea. But now the podcast seems to be changing or ending since Jo has broken the biggest rule of hooking up, falling in love and getting married. Of course the best man is Go’s (Margo) enemy from high school. A boy now sexy man who once filled her tuba with shaving cream that exploded during a school concert.

If you’ve ever read an enemy’s to lovers book then you know how the story goes complete with a miscommunication trope.

This is a cute beach read that I would say is light smut. Though there is a dressing room scene that is two thumbs up. This is much more of a rom-com novel then like a sexy book.