Max Mok has four weddings to attend this year…
When I meet Kim Sung at a friend’s wedding, I don’t make the first move. God, no. But she’s delightful and gorgeous, and she asks me to dance. Later, we go to her hotel room and…
Okay, I admit it doesn’t go well. She might be all about one-night stands, but I’m not used to having them.
That should be the end of it. I can forget about her or, more likely, obsess about it whenever I can’t sleep.
But then I see her at a second wedding. Apparently, she’s a family friend of my cousins. All three of them are getting married this summer, and she’ll also be at the next two weddings, along with her parents.
Kim is even more beautiful than last time, and I really want the chance to prove I’m not a complete disaster in bed. I also want to take her on an actual date, but she has no interest in dating anyone.
More than anything, though, I need to avoid her because I’m too embarrassed to hold a conversation, and my brothers have found out about my unfortunate one-night stand.
Oh, no. She’s coming this way. What do I do?
Review:
First: can we just pause a minute and look at that cover? All the heart eye emojis.
Second: A new series by Jackie Lau! Hockey baby and I are on the same page here (even though they’re a Penguins fan)…
I absolutely adored Max and Kim’s story, and cannot wait to go to more weddings with the Moks. I loved that they were opposites in so many ways, but both truly respected the other’s quirks, hangups, and needs even as they (and by “they” I mean mostly–but not always–Kim) also knew how to playfully push each other’s buttons. These two are truly #couplegoals by the end.
This is the second book I’ve read this year where the main couple had a very much less than perfect first night together (also both one night stands–not a coincidence, I’m sure) but managed to overcome it and (eventually) have a fulfilling relationship, and I am here for this trend! The reasons behind it and the method for improving things were very different, but I really appreciate it when characters in a romance are allowed to have a less-than stellar time in the bedroom at first.
Especially because you know they’re going to more than make up for it later! 😉
Max and Kim absolutely make up for it–and make up for it, and make up for it again, and again, and…you get the idea. This one is H-O-T hot, and I was here for that too. In between the steamy scenes, though, is a really great story about two people who start out thinking they want incompatible things but manage to figure out how to make their own HEA together in the end. (And as worried as I was that Kim wouldn’t be able to overcome her relationship concerns in a convincing way, Ms Lau managed it nicely. That scene in the church basement was absolutely brilliant.)
Here’s hoping that the next book won’t keep us waiting long, because OMG does Ms Lau leave us with a great big, “Wait…WHAT?” at the end of this one–where is the missing Mok brother, and what is he and the other character I also won’t name here doing???
Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.