By Lynn Painter
Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Audiobook rating: 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
Blurb
Their name? The objectors.
Their job? To break off weddings as hired.
Their dilemma? They might just be in love with each other.
When Sophie Steinbeck finds out just before her nuptials that her fiancé has cheated yet again, she desperately wants to call it off. But because her future father-in-law is her dad’s cutthroat boss, she doesn’t want to be the one to do it. Her savior comes in the form of a professional objector, whose purpose is to show up at weddings and proclaim the words no couple (usually) wants to hear at their ceremony: “I object!”
During anti-wedding festivities that night, Sophie learns more about Max the Objector’s job. It makes perfect sense to her: he saves people from wasting their lives, from hurting each other. He’s a modern-day hero. And Sophie wants in.
The two love cynics start working together, going from wedding to wedding, and Sophie’s having more fun than she’s had in ages. She looks forward to every nerve-racking ceremony saving the lovesick souls of the betrothed masses. As Sophie and Max spend more time together, however, they realize that their physical chemistry is off the charts, leading them to dabble in a little hookup session or two—but it’s totally fine, because they definitely do not have feelings for each other. Love doesn’t exist, after all.
And then everything changes. A groom-to-be hires Sophie to object, but his fiancée is the woman who broke Max’s heart. As Max wrestles with whether he can be a party to his ex’s getting hurt, Sophie grapples with the sudden realization that she may have fallen hard for her partner in crime.
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Read if you Like:
🍾 Romcom
🍾 Friends with benefits
🍾 Semi-fake dating
🍾 Sworn off relationships
🍾 He breaks up her wedding
My Thoughts:
I was really intrigued by the premise of Happily Never After so when it became available on audio I had to listen! I wasn't disappointed! It is the perfect romcom with some spice, and two characters who are genuinely amazing friends who fall in love.
I adored Sophie and Max's connection. Neither were seeking to impress the other and it led them to a completely genuine relationship. Sophie calling Max "Maxy" to annoy him was cracking me up! I also loved the role Sophie's roommates played in their relationship. It made me feel like maybe I needed some senior citizen roommates of my own!
If you like romcoms I highly recommend checking this one out! It will make you laugh and swoon. This was actually my first Lynn Painter book but it won't be my last!
🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Happily Never After has a couple of open-door scenes as well as a few passionate kisses and some discussion of their past encounters.
🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧 - I listened to the audiobook which is narrated by Helen Laser and Sean Patrick Hopkins. Helen Laser is familiar to me and I enjoy her work. You might recognize her from A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon or Yellowface. Sean Patrick Hopkins is also a narrator I like. He did a great job with Wrapped with a Beau. This book was dual narration and they were both great! I highly recommend the audiobook.
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