Misadventures of a Backup Bride by Shayla Black

Author:  Shayla Black
Release Date:  October 17, 2017
Rating:  4 Stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟




I know that I am about a month late with this review, but I have been so busy.  My life is crazy right now so please forgive me for the late review. 😌

I think this is the 4th book in the Misadventures Series and I enjoyed this book for what it was.  We have Characters Carson, a CEO of a candy company who recently inherited it from his absent father, and Ella, a "not so famous" actress in Hollywood who is hired by Carson to play his girlfriend.  Carson has recently inherited his father's candy company and he has to find a way to fix its financial problems.  Being that he is a rookie CEO, there aren't any banks that are willing to loan him the money so he turns to his rival, Mr. Shaw to lend him the money, which is crazy by the way.  But nothing comes easy and there is a catch, Carson must marry Shaw's daughter and also give him 5% of his dad's company.  Shaw's daughter is 10 years younger than Carson and very immature.  What would you do in this situation?  Would you hire an actress to pretend to be your long lost love or soul mate?  If you answered yes to this question, then look no further because this book is built on this concept.

I like the characters in this story and their chemistry was ever so present throughout this story.  The sex was, of course, hot and scorching.  Carson was a down to earth type of character with great ambitions and Ella was also a grounded, mature character with a touch of a sex goddess.  I was actually expecting more sex, but I was okay with few sex scenes because most authors drown their books with repetitive sex scenes. This story was very different from the other books in the series because I actually got to see the development of their relationship and I connected with Ella.

When we first meet Ella, we meet a nice, grounded girl trying to make it in Hollywood, but when she meets Carson, she turns into a nymphomaniac.  She is this sex goddess, but that quickly fades away throughout the book.  It wasn’t consistent with her character.  The pacing was way off to me and this entire book takes place in 17 days. What? That is exactly what makes this story a huge fairytale.  The ending was a nice Disney princess ending with everything being resolved with a nice pretty bow.  It made me roll my eyes so much that I had to pick them up from off the floor and the ending is so cheesy.  This bothered me for some reason, but I still enjoyed the story.  This is one of those instant love and fake fiancée story arcs and if you are a fan of this category  in romance then you will most definitely enjoy this story.  I give this story 4 stars and even though this story reeked of "happily ever after" Disney princess style, I still liked this story and I had a good time reading it.  I recommend it.