A review by claire_loves_books
How to Lose a Bride in One Night by Sophie Jordan

3.0

This was quite angsty but I enjoyed it. I liked Annalise and Owen, and I liked their romance and watching them get to know each other, I can understand her motivations for keeping the big secret but there were times where a bit more communication between the two of them would have helped. The plot started unusually but then went along fairly predictable lines but it was a light fun read.

Bloodsworth did just seem a bit too much of an evil cliché and was working off the Evil Overlord list in places.

What I didn't like:

Spoiler

Annalise lost weight and was magically cured of her limp- as if they were fundamental defects, it just feels unfair to people who live with that sort of thing in their real lives that characters with similar issues have to be 'cured' before they can find love. (Bloodsworth even says she's more attractive after than at the beginning of the book)

Owen also starts foreplay while Anna is still asleep- they'd had sex the night before but foreplay/sex with people who are asleep grosses me out (it's rape people- someone who's asleep can't consent) so I was anxiously waiting for her to wake up rather than enjoying the scene.