Wednesday 29 January 2020

Book Review - Marriage on Madison Avenue by Lauren Layne

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Title: Marriage on Madison Avenue
Author: Lauren Layne
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: Headline Eternal
Publication Date: 28th January 2020
Rating: 5 Stars

Can guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. After all, they've been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. Clarke is the charming playboy Audrey can always count on and, knowing that the ever-loyal Audrey will never not play along with his strategy for dodging his matchmaking mother, announces he's already engaged...to Audrey.

But what starts out as a playful game between two best friends turns into something infinitely more complicated, as just-for-show kisses begin to stir up forbidden feelings. As the faux wedding date looms closer, Audrey and Clarke realize that they can never go back to the way things were, but deep down, do they really want to?

Filled with charm and heart and plenty of heart and wit, this entertaining series will hook you from the very first page. Look out for the other two titles, Passion on Park Avenue and Love on Lexington Avenue

Want more fun, fresh, flirty and very sexy rom-com? Check out Lauren's Oxford series and don't miss her warm, witty and sexy Wedding Belles series and the I Do, I Don't series, as well as the romantic standalones in the Love, Unexpectedly series.

What a unique opening to a book. Certainly not the circumstances I'd normally expect a female friendship to form in.  I was hooked from that point on and it was early in chapter 1 when I realised that perhaps not reading the others in the series was a mistake as I worked have loved to know their stories. 

That being said Audrey and Clarke's story is pretty much perfect,  taking the fake boyfriend trope to a whole new level. 

I loved their reasons for the fake relationship and as best friends they were always going to have each other's best interests at heart.  But equally I think I'm not alone in hoping that the story progressed in the way it did.

I loved the scene in the lingerie shop, it was hilarious. And all interactions between Audrey and Clarke were fabulous. 

This is the first book I've read by this author and it definitely wont be the last.  I loved every minute of it. 

Thank you to Netgalley and Headline Eternal for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 

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