Weekend Wife

Weekend Wife

Erin McCarthy2020
Billionaire businessman in need of a fake fiancée... It should be the easiest job ever for an out-of-work actress, right? All I have to do is pose as Grant Caldwell (the Third)'s fiancée for a fancy-pants weekend in the Hamptons. Easy. Wear designer clothing and sip champagne? Don't mind if I do. Flirting with Grant? It's so delicious I should be paying him. Nothing can go wrong as long as I can keep my hands off of him. But that's the hard part. And I do mean hard. Because Grant is sexy. And bossy. And surprisingly sweet, a real rarity in his pretentious family. Oops. I'm not as good at faking it as I thought.
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3 stars
Sep 30, 2021

A fun easy read. I liked Leah as a character but Grant was just OK. Add him to the list of romance characters who have a bad relationship and then decide they just won't have any more, ever. It's silly. He's a stereotypical Grumpy Man who becomes infatuated with the Fun Girl even though he doesn't do relationships. I have a hard time buying the Marriage of Convenience trope in most contemporary stories - it's just hard to buy it. Like "you need to be married by x date or you don't get your inheritance" plots always leave me eyerolling before I get over it and move on. Here, Grant needs to have a wife or he will lose his position as the CEO of the family business. Why does he need a wife to do the job? He doesn't. So basically his family is using his job to manipulate him into a marriage. Anyhoo...... Once I got past these points, it was an enjoyable, if not utterly predictable, read.

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Sofia Spinnato @sofiaspin
4 stars
Apr 2, 2022
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Sára@sara_h
3 stars
Jan 1, 2022

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