I also appreciated the author addressing elements of interracial dating. I mean, be for real, what’s the likelihood of the love of your life living in the same city, state, or even country? Guillory makes a point through their interactions to show how arduous long-distance love can be. Too often these stories are neatly confined to a small town where the characters live half a mile from each other and frequent the same coffee shop. I enjoyed the realistic layer of long-distance. It could all be so simple but these two are determined to make it hard. Throughout three hundred pages they stumble through meetups, call it offs, and steamy encounters all because they bumped into each other at the right place at the right time.

They both live fast-paced lives as young professionals but can’t help giving it a try because what if this could be it. What was supposed to be one fun night turns into a complex long-distance love affair. Not just anybody’s wedding but his ex-girlfriend’s wedding. The two hit it off and make the rash decision to pretend to be dating and attend a wedding. She can’t believe her luck when she finds herself literally stuck in an elevator with equally witty, successful, and single Drew Nichols. However, I couldn’t resist a contemporary romance novel by a Black woman with a Black main character that kept popping up on my timeline.Īlexa Monroe is witty, successful, and single. As an adult, I became too cynical and jaded to lose myself in meet cutes so I traded them in for darker genres and never looked back. Not because I found them sophomoric but because they were cheap and plentiful back then so I bought them above other things. They reminded me so strongly of middle and high school. Prior to this, it had been a long time since I’d read a romance novel.

However, Guillory puts a fresh, glossy spin on the classic rom-com trope in The Wedding Date. Well done steak, shaking the table while you cut it done. Initially, I was turned off because this trope has been done. Two strangers hit it off and pretend to date for the sake of a wedding.

The wedding date novel