{"id":27818,"date":"2021-11-09T19:12:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T00:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=27818"},"modified":"2022-10-16T13:06:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:06:30","slug":"review-the-wedding-ringer-by-kerry-rea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/09\/review-the-wedding-ringer-by-kerry-rea\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f The Wedding Ringer by Kerry Rea"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-27818\" data-postid=\"27818\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-27818 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_bbbcac8 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner gutter-narrow col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_49667e8 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_7036296 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-wedding-ringer-kerry-rea.jpg?resize=333%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-29102\" title=\"the-wedding-ringer-kerry-rea\" alt=\"the-wedding-ringer-kerry-rea\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-wedding-ringer-kerry-rea.jpg?w=333&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-wedding-ringer-kerry-rea.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-wedding-ringer-kerry-rea.jpg?resize=400%2C600&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/>\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_a1982ef customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Once upon a time, Willa Callister was a successful blogger with a good credit score, actual hobbies, and legs that she shaved more than once a month. But after finding her fianc\u00e9 in bed with her best friend, she now spends her days performing at children&#8217;s birthday parties in a ball gown that makes her look like a walking bottle of Pepto Bismol. Willa dreams of starting fresh, where no one knows who she used to be, but first she needs to save up enough money to make it happen.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Maisie Mitchell needs something too: another bridesmaid for her wedding. After a chance encounter at a coffee shop, Maisie offers to pay Willa to be in her bridal party. Willa wants nothing to do with weddings\u2014or Maisie\u2014but the money will give her the freedom to start the new life she so badly desires.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Willa&#8217;s bridesmaid duties thrust her into Maisie&#8217;s high-energy world and into the path of hotshot doctor Liam Rafferty. But as Willa and Maisie form a real friendship, and Liam&#8217;s annoyingly irresistible smile makes her reconsider her mantra that all men are trash, Willa&#8217;s exit strategy becomes way more complicated. And when a secret from Maisie&#8217;s past threatens to derail the wedding, Willa must consider whether friendship\u2014and romance\u2014are worth sticking around for.<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_23787e9 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_2d1ea91  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25879 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smitten-top-pick-banner-1-2.png?resize=296%2C72&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Nov 9, 2021<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Scorching<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Penguin Group<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Berkley\u00a0<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $7.99<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI try to tell myself that the sudden rush of emotion is PMS-related, but I know it\u2019s something else. It\u2019s that thing I never talk about: the gnawing, clawing monster that eats away at me no matter how many episodes of <em>The Office <\/em>I watch or glasses of red wine I drink. That creeps up on me in the middle of the night when I\u2019m wide awake and staring at the ceiling with a heavy dread in my stomach. That finds me when I least expect it, when I\u2019m in line at Target or watching Stacey hug Kaya or accidently dropping Chloe Wellington\u2019s three-hundred-dollar birthday cake. That thing I can\u2019t sleep or outdrink or overcome: loneliness.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Willa Callister<\/strong> used to have it all: A successful blog, a loving fianc\u00e9, and a best friend who was more like family. It all came crashing down when Willa found her fianc\u00e9, Max, and her best friend, Sarah, in bed together six weeks before her wedding. Willa was devastated. She cut off all their friends, moved in with her sister, and stopped writing. She closed herself off to everything, moping around drinking wine, and hiding from her life so she no longer had to deal with it. A chance encounter with Maisie, one of the sweetest people she has ever met, has Willa pretending to be her bridesmaid because she has no real friends. This is a story of growth, love, and finding true friendship in the midst of one of the worst moments in your life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wow! This one was really stellar. I think that <em><strong>Kerry Rea<\/strong> <\/em>packed so much wit and charm into this story. I was rooting for Willa and cheering her on from behind my Kindle. She is a complex character. Hilarious, sarcastic, closed-off, untrusting, and just like all of us when we have been hurt beyond recognition. This was about her journey to heal in both love and friendship. I know this is packaged as a romance, but it truly takes a back seat to Maisie and Willa\u2019s friendship. These two characters are flawed from being hurt by people in their past, but they truly learn to open up to each other creating a super special bond that will last forever. Add in hot pediatrician, <strong>Dr. Liam Rafferty<\/strong>, and Willa gets it all. Even though this isn\u2019t a competition with Sarah and Max, Willa is the one who is winning with an amazing best friend, family who loves her no matter what, and a smoking hot boyfriend. I wish that we had gotten to see a little more romance between Willa and Liam, but honestly this book is good enough without that. I can\u2019t recommend it enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you\u2019re looking for a story full of humor with imperfect heroines who are searching for their place in the world like those of <em><strong>Susan Elizabeth Phillips<\/strong><\/em> then give this one a try.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Michelle<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_eb0616c customBorderRad repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3CYvosv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3VpjUWd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">iBooks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-wedding-ringer-kerry-rea\/1138694822?ean=9780593201855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">B&amp;N<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-wedding-ringer-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Kerry_Rea_The_Wedding_Ringer?id=ZjYXEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Google Play<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            \t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, Willa Callister was a successful blogger with a good credit score, actual hobbies, and legs that she shaved more than once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,122,128,48],"tags":[153,216,217,404,405,419,485],"class_list":["post-27818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-berkley","category-michelle","category-penguin-group","category-reviews","tag-4-5-stars","tag-contemporary","tag-contemporary-romance","tag-recommend","tag-recommended-reads","tag-rom-com","tag-top-picks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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But after finding her fianc\u00e9 in bed with her best friend, she now spends her days performing at children's birthday parties in a ball gown that makes her look like a walking bottle of Pepto Bismol. Willa dreams of starting fresh, where no one knows who she used to be, but first she needs to save up enough money to make it happen.<br \/><br \/>Maisie Mitchell needs something too: another bridesmaid for her wedding. After a chance encounter at a coffee shop, Maisie offers to pay Willa to be in her bridal party. Willa wants nothing to do with weddings\u2014or Maisie\u2014but the money will give her the freedom to start the new life she so badly desires.<br \/><br \/>Willa's bridesmaid duties thrust her into Maisie's high-energy world and into the path of hotshot doctor Liam Rafferty. But as Willa and Maisie form a real friendship, and Liam's annoyingly irresistible smile makes her reconsider her mantra that all men are trash, Willa's exit strategy becomes way more complicated. And when a secret from Maisie's past threatens to derail the wedding, Willa must consider whether friendship\u2014and romance\u2014are worth sticking around for.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smitten-top-pick-banner-1-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p> <hr \/> <p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Nov 9, 2021<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Scorching<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Penguin Group<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Berkley\u00a0<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $7.99<\/p> <hr \/> <blockquote> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI try to tell myself that the sudden rush of emotion is PMS-related, but I know it\u2019s something else. It\u2019s that thing I never talk about: the gnawing, clawing monster that eats away at me no matter how many episodes of <em>The Office <\/em>I watch or glasses of red wine I drink. That creeps up on me in the middle of the night when I\u2019m wide awake and staring at the ceiling with a heavy dread in my stomach. That finds me when I least expect it, when I\u2019m in line at Target or watching Stacey hug Kaya or accidently dropping Chloe Wellington\u2019s three-hundred-dollar birthday cake. That thing I can\u2019t sleep or outdrink or overcome: loneliness.\u201d<\/p> <\/blockquote> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Willa Callister<\/strong> used to have it all: A successful blog, a loving fianc\u00e9, and a best friend who was more like family. It all came crashing down when Willa found her fianc\u00e9, Max, and her best friend, Sarah, in bed together six weeks before her wedding. Willa was devastated. She cut off all their friends, moved in with her sister, and stopped writing. She closed herself off to everything, moping around drinking wine, and hiding from her life so she no longer had to deal with it. A chance encounter with Maisie, one of the sweetest people she has ever met, has Willa pretending to be her bridesmaid because she has no real friends. This is a story of growth, love, and finding true friendship in the midst of one of the worst moments in your life.<\/p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wow! This one was really stellar. I think that <em><strong>Kerry Rea<\/strong> <\/em>packed so much wit and charm into this story. I was rooting for Willa and cheering her on from behind my Kindle. She is a complex character. Hilarious, sarcastic, closed-off, untrusting, and just like all of us when we have been hurt beyond recognition. This was about her journey to heal in both love and friendship. I know this is packaged as a romance, but it truly takes a back seat to Maisie and Willa\u2019s friendship. These two characters are flawed from being hurt by people in their past, but they truly learn to open up to each other creating a super special bond that will last forever. Add in hot pediatrician, <strong>Dr. Liam Rafferty<\/strong>, and Willa gets it all. Even though this isn\u2019t a competition with Sarah and Max, Willa is the one who is winning with an amazing best friend, family who loves her no matter what, and a smoking hot boyfriend. I wish that we had gotten to see a little more romance between Willa and Liam, but honestly this book is good enough without that. I can\u2019t recommend it enough.<\/p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you\u2019re looking for a story full of humor with imperfect heroines who are searching for their place in the world like those of <em><strong>Susan Elizabeth Phillips<\/strong><\/em> then give this one a try.<\/p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Michelle<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3CYvosv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3VpjUWd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-wedding-ringer-kerry-rea\/1138694822?ean=9780593201855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-wedding-ringer-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Kerry_Rea_The_Wedding_Ringer?id=ZjYXEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29258,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27818\/revisions\/29258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}