A review by stephsnextread
My Best Friend's Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner

3.0

I read and loved Meryl Wilsner’s Cleat Cute last year. So when I saw they were releasing a childhood friends-to-lovers (my favorite trope!) with a nonbinary main character, I was so excited! At the beginning of the book, I LOVED it! Ginny and Elsie have been best friends since elementary school, but Elsie doesn’t know that Ginny has been in love with her the whole time. Ginny’s experience of longing for Elsie in high school was so well written, it made my stomach hurt! 

Elsie is about to be married, after a proposal that she did not want and her fiancé planning a wedding that she VERY MUCH did not want. Elsie will stand up for everyone but herself, she won’t ask for what SHE wants. Elsie finally takes the first step to getting a life that she actually wants, and she breaks off the engagement. The honeymoon is non-refundable, so it makes sense that Elsie asks Ginny to go with her instead. 

The book up to this point was great! But then I felt like it skipped ahead without actually skipping ahead. I wanted all of the in-between from friends to lovers. At the resort, Elsie and Ginny didn’t waste much time before hooking up the first time (and this book is SPICY!). I wanted build up, subtle flirting to see how the other reacts, discussion about feelings, and worry about losing their friendship if it doesn’t work out. Their friendship felt too important to risk it like that without talking about it. 

The audiobook is narrated by Blair Baler and Emily Shaw. I thought both narrators did an excellent job, and their voices were distinct for the characters. The audio was well produced and engaging. Overall, I liked the book but it left me wanting more.

Thank you to Meryl Wilsner, St. Martin’s Press, Macmillan Audio, and NetGalley for the gifted e-ARC and gifted ALC; all opinions are my own.

Read if you like:

💕 F/NB romance

💕 Childhood friends to lovers

💕 Vacation romance

💕 Lots of spice