Book Review - Married at First Swipe by Claire Frost

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Title: Married at First Swipe

Author: Claire Frost

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: 4th April 2021

Rating: 4 Stars

Hannah lives life on the edge. Never one to pass up on a new adventure, she has truly been living her best life. But once the adrenaline wears off, she wishes she had someone to spend the quieter moments with too. Learning that her best friend’s online dating business has taken a hit, she comes up with an idea that just might solve both of their problems...

 

Jess has been with her husband for twenty years. They have a stable marriage, great kids and run their own businesses. But what looks like a perfect life from the outside has its own problems within, and with her business on the brink Jess can’t help but wonder where the spark has gone in her life, and whether settling down is all it’s cracked up to be.

 

When Hannah embarks upon her latest scheme: finding a man using Jess’s dating app and meeting him for the first time at the altar, both women start to realise the grass isn't always greener. Can Hannah help her friend save her failing business or will Jess stop her from making what could be the biggest mistake of her life?

 

In the modern tech-fuelled world of dating, is it possible to find true love? 

Would you be brave enough to marry someone without having ever seen or spoken to them first? It is the ultimate in blind dates, and yet that is just what Hannah proposes she do,  in part because she is sick of bad dates, and in part as a big publicity stunt to help save the app, her best friend Jess set up. 

The story is told from alternating perspectives of both Hannah and Jess, and Jess' story will be familiar to most parents I would think, or at least they would easily be able to relate to her. 

I loved the first half the book, the discovering just who Jess will pick for Hannah to marry, the pair getting to know each other through a series of public blog posts written to each other, which I really felt added a lot to the book. 

I also loved the ending of the book and how everything was resolved, but the bit between half way and towards the end just didn't quite grip me in the same way.  Don't get me wrong it was still good, but I just found myself so frustrated with both of our main ladies, that I was getting a bit infuriated, with their lack of seeing the bigger picture and also lack of communication. 

This though is a highly enjoyable second novel from Claire Frost, and the concept was fabulous. I'm not sure I could have done what Hannah did, and I also enjoyed getting to know their friends and families as well as our mystery man. 

Plenty to both smile at and also roll your eyes at. Personally I'd have loved far more detail of the honeymoon but that would have just been due to my wanderlust and loving to read about stunning locations! An entertaining story from an author who is clearly going to be force to be reckoned with. 

Thank you to Simon and Schuster and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.