Review: Weekend Wife

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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. Or maybe they call this method acting. Because it’s getting harder to figure out where my character ends and I begin…

It just might be the role of a lifetime.

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: February 2020

Mature content: yes

Review: When I picked up Weekend Wife I already expected a more or less predictable plot but I had hopes for a few twists here and there to keep it interesting. The general plot was more or less what I expected, but the main characters were a disaster. 

Right from the start I didn't like the fact that Leah took home a virtual stranger and had sex with him. Just because he'd been at the diner where she works every week at the same hour eating the same food for the part I don't know how many months doesn't make him reliable. Actually, it might make him a stalker suffering from OCD instead. The fact that he seems to be rich and his car comes with a driver doesn't make him more trustworthy either, in my opinion. 

Then Grant arranges for a care package to be sent to Leah and a sex toy just happens to be part of that package. Yes, because all self-respecting women love to receive sex toys from virtual strangers. 

And it goes on and on. At some point someone sort of compares Leah to Pretty Woman and it couldn't be more spot on. 

I'm rating it with three stars because if you discount the way too graphic sex scenes and my ramblings above, there are a few parts that are not so bad, especially Grant's facility dynamics. But overall Weekend Wife is not a book I actively recommend. 

Happy readings!

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