A review by andreasromancebooks
The Wrong Mr. Right by Stephanie Archer

5.0

4.75 ⭐ Straight into my Top 5 of 2022.

This book was extraordinary - brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique – ok, maybe not TOTALLY unique, but my god was it everything I wanted and more. The cover is deceptively tame for the expert level smut, especially the dirty talk and praise that the main characters get into in this book. Honestly, tell me you look at this cover and see cum kink - You don’t, do you? So, like I said, expert level filth. And I loved every second of it.

Hannah is a 29-year-old bookstore owner who realizes that her life has become stale - she’s afraid of her own shadow and never takes risks. So, in an effort to try to make her late mother proud, she compiles a list of things she wants to accomplish before her 30th birthday. Wyatt is an aspiring pro-surfer whose life in Queen’s Cove is tranquil and happy, and he lives his life in the most carpe diem way possible - To Wyatt, permanence and forever are not real, so when Hannah comes to him with an intriguing proposition, he takes things at face value, and dives right in… not know the consequences of having someone like Hannah around.

This book is a clear step into what I truly hope romance books go towards in the future – romcoms like this are fun, but they also have so much fight and bite to them. I love raging feminist books, and this wasn’t rage-y, but it was close. The MMC, Wyatt, is every bit a man written by a woman for women. He’s perfect, to the point of impossibility. There is no miscommunication trope (thank the fucking angels below), and he’s always clear with her about his struggles and his feelings. They go from acquaintances-to-friends-to-lovers and I AM OBSSESSED! I usually go for enemies-to-lovers because, duh… But this is the sweetest, most amazing, steamy without being over the top rom com I may have ever read… and I read a lot of them.

The only reason why it’s not a full 5 stars is because the only poc character leaves in the first chapter to basically disappear for the rest of the book. Apart from that, the representation and diversity in the characters, the themes discussed, and the obvious feminist references were sweet, sweet music to my ears.

I’m rounding this up and I’m already planning to get my hands on every other book in this series. My TBR is screaming at me.

4.75/5 ⭐