Book Review: Inconvenient Wife by Natasha Boyd
Media Type: ebook
Title: Inconvenient Wife
Author: Natasha Boyd
Publisher: Self
Pages: paperback, 260
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Source: Purchased
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Genre: Contemporary Romance
HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart
Recommended to: Readers who enjoy friends to lovers stories with a lot of build.
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All Beau Montgomery, one of Charleston’s most eligible bachelors, wants to do is build boats. He has no interest in marriage whatsoever … until it means he might not get his inheritance and he can kiss his boat building dreams goodbye. But the hungry hordes of Charleston debutantes looking to score a Montgomery scare him sh*tless.
Gwen has loved Beau Montgomery since she used to run barefoot around the marina as scrappy teenager. Knowing she’ll never fit into his high society family, she decided long ago that she’d become his indispensable best friend rather than not be in his life at all. When he tells her he needs to marry in order to fulfill his dreams, she panics that he might actually meet someone and she’ll lose him forever.
Where to begin? This was another fun, interesting romance by one of my favorite authors. While not quite living up to the laugh out loud moments of the first book in this series (Accidental Tryst) I really enjoyed the tension building of this friends to lovers story. Gwen, or Gracie, and Beau have a definitive chemistry that most couples strive to find. Friendships are great, but when they can be more it can be even better.
I know this particular trope gets kind of a bad rap in the romance reading community, but I assure you that Boyd does a fabulous job keeping the story moving without falling into a repetitive pace that leaves the reader with that “will they just get it on already” feeling. I found myself reading easily and excitedly to find out what would happen next. There’s a lot to unravel and I really enjoyed the other characters contributions to the story.
Beau is an idiot. I mean that in the nicest way possible. He does all the wrong things and seems to not understand women at all. For having a best friend that is female, he hasn’t learned anything useful to his endeavor. It was hard to like him at all at first, but there are a few redeeming moments that saved his character for me. Apologies are important people, that’s all I’m saying.
Gwen is fierce and gentle. She seems like someone I’d like to get a beer with and swap awful dating stories. I immediately related to her and it was easy to be in her corner from the beginning. Not without faults, her stubbornness made for an interesting middle of the story. The ending is probably one of my favorite parts, all thanks to her.
If you’re looking for a fun romance with a bit of angst and a happy ending, you should definitely grab this book.
