Sunny Shelly’s Review: Marrying Mr. Wrong, by Claire Kingsley

Accidental marriage perfection! The opening chapter and meet-cute of Marrying Mr. Wrong had me in stitches: Sophie is rappelling out of a hotel room balcony with a bedsheet after getting herself in a bit of a pickle when a hot dude comes to her rescue. But she’s not wearing any panties. And the hot dude is Camden Cox, the grown-up version of the boy who used to pull her pigtails in 7th grade. Talk about awkward! But that’s not even the half of it because a few days later, Sophie wakes up in bed with Cox in Las Vegas, not knowing if they slept together but they did get married!

This romcom was a delight to read. Cox is a cocky, confident hero, and the fact that he’s married to the girl he liked back when he was 12 is like his childhood fantasy come true. Sophie is absolutely adorable. She’s a quirky accident-prone heroine, constantly tripping over her own feet. I can just imagine her “I’m okay!” in my mind because my own daughter falls and says it daily! They agree to stay married for 6 months in order for Cox to avoid another corporate scandal, and somewhere along the way, Sophie starts dating her fake husband. They are so sweet together — and seriously sexy, too!

But as much as Sophie and Cox seem to be smitten with each other in their strange dating-but-married relationship, there is the fact that they don’t know each other very well. And that sets the stage for some secrets and lies to come between them and rip them apart. I loved that breakup scene! Sophie showed such class and grace and was the bigger person, and Cox immediately knew that he was wrong in what he’d done the second she left the room. It takes some time for him to get his head out of his butt, but the guy goes all-out to make a lovely grand gesture — one that had me crying, it was so sweet!

As always, CK has an awesome cast of secondary characters, and I’m not even talking about the other Dirty Martini Running Club girls. (But seriously, Corban and Shephard teaming up together to go all big brother on Cox and protect Sophie was hilarious.) Oliver is a guy I’d want to be friends with, and I think Mel is my favorite new book dad. He and Cox’s mom were hysterical in their quests to marry off their kids. I would honestly love to see something, even a friendship, develop between those two!

I really figured that Sophie was going to end up with Nora’s half brother, Jensen, since she’d always been kind of tongue-tied around him. But I have to say, I loved absolutely everything about Cox and Sophie and they are perfect together! Bring on Nora’s book!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.