*3.5

This was a really fun and sweet mistaken identity and kidnapping historical romance (I love how we all say kidnapping romance so casually on this app LMAO). The MMC, Hugh, is supposed to marry the FMC, Catriona’s (Riona) cousin who has the same name (Catriona/Cat) to form an alliance between their clans. Riona’s uncle (Cat’s father) doesn’t want to uphold the potential alliance and contract that was made, so he tricks Hugh into kidnapping his niece, our FMC, Riona instead. Riona tries to tell Hugh that he kidnapped the wrong woman but Hugh doesn’t believe her and he takes her back to his clan.

I really loved the banter between Hugh and Riona, and at first, Hugh not believing Riona about the mistaken identity really bothered me, but it honestly became just funny as the book went on. I really enjoyed how both Riona and Hugh grew both together and separately as people in this book. Riona’s journey to self-growth and becoming a lairds wife really reminded me of the FMC, Judith from Julie Garwood’s The Secret.

Despite all the good things I have to say about The Wrong Bride,, I don’t think this story was anything profound. It was a fun book, but I can definitely tell it will be one I forget about in the future. A good palette cleanser, if you will. Regardless, this was a really fun audiobook (I love when Scottish historical romance audiobook narrators actually do accents, it’s so fun), and I’m interested to continue on with the series.