Book Review - Wed Or Alive by Portia MacIntosh

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Title: Wed Or Alive

Author: Portia MacIntosh

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley 

Publisher: Boldwood Books

Publication Date: 28th April 2026

Rating: 4 Stars

Sometimes love shows up in cowboy boots 🐎❣️

Whitney’s life is not going to plan. Her romantic comedy novel isn’t selling, her career feels stuck, and by the time she realises she’s in love with her best friend and roommate, Andy, he’s back from his work trip with a fiancée - and a wedding date that is alarmingly soon.

Enter Jake: a cowboy with his own problems, including a country estate he’s desperate to buy and an owner who doesn’t trust developers - or men without roots. When a viral moment throws Whitney and Jake together, they strike a deal. Whitney gets the real-life love story publishers want. Jake gets to look like a committed, family-minded man who belongs at Rosewood. All they have to do is pretend they’re in love.

As Andy’s wedding approaches, Whitney uncovers a plot twist that could change everything for him - but the romcom she’s acting out with Jake is starting to feel dangerously real.

Falling for your best friend is complicated, but riding off into the sunset with a cowboy is pure fiction… Right?

If you are a massive fan of Portia MacIntosh like me, then don't read the blurb, just buy this.  I've only just looked at the blurb ahead of writing this review, and am very surprised at just how much of the story it seems to give away. 

Which is about to make this a lot trickier as the book really gets going in my eyes around the 50% mark although it was completely enjoyable before that,  and the majority of the blurb is covering things from that bit onwards!!

This though has plenty of Portia's trademark humour in it, and omg Jake the cowboy was enough to melt me. 

He is absolutely wonderful, and J J one of Whitney's best friends is totally fabulous.  She is likened in the book to Samantha Jones from Sex and the City and I would definitely agree with that.

This was very enjoyable, really amusing and contains one of my favourite tropes too. What more could a girl want. 

Thank you to Boldwood Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.