Wife by Wednesday
by Catherine Bybee
I bought Wife by Wednesday because I thought it would be similar to the cute romantic comedy Forever a Bridesmaid that I’d read earlier. Both involve a workaholic career woman who falls in love with a man while on the job, and both involve weddings. Unfortunately, I liked the other book infinitely better.
In Wife by Wednesday, Sam is a professional matchmaker, and Blake is her client. He’s rich, handsome, and looking for a woman to marry so he can gain his inheritance. Love doesn’t enter into the equation for him, until he gets to know Sam a little better. He rejects the candidates she suggests and instead says he wants to marry her because she’s so impersonal. Of course, they fall in love. And, while this book is still a “clean romance” because there’s no premarital sex, the bedroom scenes are a little nastier than I tend to read. Also, this type of book tends to be light and fluffy, but many of the plot points feel like they’re trying to be melodramatic instead. All in all, it didn’t really hold my attention, and I wasn’t really rooting for the characters or the romance.
In Wife by Wednesday, Sam is a professional matchmaker, and Blake is her client. He’s rich, handsome, and looking for a woman to marry so he can gain his inheritance. Love doesn’t enter into the equation for him, until he gets to know Sam a little better. He rejects the candidates she suggests and instead says he wants to marry her because she’s so impersonal. Of course, they fall in love. And, while this book is still a “clean romance” because there’s no premarital sex, the bedroom scenes are a little nastier than I tend to read. Also, this type of book tends to be light and fluffy, but many of the plot points feel like they’re trying to be melodramatic instead. All in all, it didn’t really hold my attention, and I wasn’t really rooting for the characters or the romance.