“Good girls don’t get drunk and run away on their wedding day,” he went on. “Good girls don’t take off their clothes in front of wicked men. Good girls don’t taunt those men into tumbling them. Good girls don’t make the men wish they’d thought to do it years ago. Good girls are boring. You won the awards for boring because you were trying to be a good girl. You’re not. You’re a bad girl, and if you’d been a boy, you might have been one of my best friends. I’m glad you’re not a boy. Now, can we stop talking and thinking and get out of here? We haven’t a minute to lose.”

I actually kinda loved this book. I didn’t know what to expect. I generally enjoy Loretta Chases writing style, I find she uses lots of dialogue, and it’s usually witty and funny, her characters likable. I think this was the funniest of all her books I’ve read so far. It’s very light-hearted and cute, yet a vague feeling of guilt overhung the book for me.

The book begins with our heroine, Olympia, trying to escape her wedding through a window. The grooms best friend, the Duke of Ripley (or just Ripley as he’s referred to throughout the book) tries to reason with and bring her back. On their journey they fall in love.

It’s very much a road trip romance with much of the book taking place on the run. It’s funny! I just could NOT shake my sense of guilt that she was falling for her fiancés best friend and hadn’t worked it out with him yet. I just felt like I couldn’t truly enjoy their romance. It just was niggling at me over most of my reading even though I KNEW it was going to be okay lol. The character development isn’t the deepest. For these reasons it’s not 5 star for me.

I did love Ripley. He’s so sweet and funny. And I read romance to fall in love and I truly did watch them fall in love and experience it with them. So I had my own hang ups about the book but I still really enjoyed it and encourage others to try it. I got this on my library overdrive.