I have loved all the books in this series. And of course, those covers are to die for, which is why I went ahead and did a pre-order of it when B&N had their big pre-order sale. While this one wasn’t my favorite, I did still enjoy a lot of things about it. Of course my favorite thing is getting to spend time with all the characters we met and fell in love with in the other books, My Bare Lady, The Treble With Men, The One That I Want, and Hopelessly Devoted. When the women of the SWS – Scorned Women Society decided to put Vincent through a little testing to see if he was good enough for their friend, well of course some hilarity ensued. Some pole dancing, a black eye, yeah, some fun moments came from those scenes.

While I got the wedding and why they chose to get married, it seemed a little bit of a major jump ahead. I get that it was a marriage of convenience type of story. And that is a trope that I do enjoy. The build up to the actual physical part of the relationship was definitely edge of the seat, and when they gave into that, boy did they take it in a way I didn’t see coming. But I get why they did the role-playing parts, to try to keep from feeling guilty about their lost spouses.

I also enjoyed when Vincent was getting explained to by his family about how he hadn’t handled telling Gretchen he loved her the right way. While I was upset with Gretchen, feeling she overreacted, as someone always does in this kind of story, so I know, yeah yeah, it was also eye-opening for me to read the things that Roxy as well as his family said to him about why he was also in the wrong with how it was handled.

A good conclusion to the series. And I adored the little epilogue at the end that even contained a Winston offspring.

Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.