Hoax Husband by Candice WrightMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Well Worn Trope Done Well
The get drunk in vegas and wake up married to a stranger is a pretty common theme in modern romance literature. It’s been done many different ways but this novel was done well. It’s not surprising to me because Candice Wright is a really good writer and I’ve enjoyed all the rest of her books. This is not her strongest book, but it’s no means weak.
This book is part of the Cocky Hero Club world. I was wracking my brain for the first few chapters knowing that the characters rung a bell. It wasn’t until I did a search for the MFC’s boss that I worked out that the MMC was the boss’s best friend from Stuck-Up Suit. Once I got that settled I could relax enough to enjoy the rest of the book.
The MMC, Asher Sloan, is pretty unlikeable. In fact he’s down right skeezy and it took him longer to win me over than it did the MFC, Linda. His attitude towards women was less than pleasant and his treatment of Linda after their night together in Vegas is pretty horrible.
Linda, on the other hand, is sweet, kind, friendly and warm. She’s strong willed and creative. At the start of the book she is forcing herself into a straight laced role that ill fits her personality and when that role breaks is when she meets Asher.
When they meet again Asher’s motives are not great and I really dislike that Linda falls for his manipulations, even if the lines he uses are sort of true. Linda’s sweet naïveté is kind of endearing, kind of ‘you need a good shake girlfriend’ and it’s a very fine line to walk for the author, who just about pulls it off. The only reason it works is that Linda kind of knows she’s being naïve and Asher knows he is being an ass.
It also veers off in the last 20% in an unexpected direction, which makes up for the predictable nature of the initial plot line, though I would have appreciated that section took up a little bit more of the storyline.
All that being said, I enjoyed the book as it was well written and I know that I will automatically pick up this author’s next book, as I did this one.
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