Married At First Swipe - Claire Frost

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Release Date: Expected 4th February 2021

Hannah is perpetually unlucky in love. Which is ironic, considering she's the manager for her BFF Jess' dating company, 'Save The Date.'

Hannah and Jess have done everything together since they were awkward kids, but now Jess has grown up with a husband and children and left Hannah racing to catch up. She's explored the world, had adventures, fallen in and out of love, but now she's ready for something real, something like Jess and her husband have. But she just doesn't know what to do.

But surely they're the experts, after all? The two friends embark on a hilariously ludicrous mission to find Hannah the perfect husband and maybe give Save The Date the push it needs to finally be sucessful - Jess is going to use the App to set Hannah up on the blind date of the century - a blind wedding.

It's perfect - at least, that's what they both think. But the grass isn't always greener on the other side, a lesson Hannah and Jess need to learn quickly.

This story had a spellbindingly hilarious and witty concept - and totally full of laughs. However, I'm afraid for me this fell slightly flat - there was too much awkward dialouge crammed into such small spaces and the parts of the story I was dying to read were totally omitted from the book altogether which left me unable to really connect with Hannah and her journey down the Altar.

But the highlight of this story for me was the friendship between the two girls and how they had to grow up together to see that the other isn't so polished and perfect as they'd like to believe, and regardless of their issues they always come together.

Married At First Swipe comes out just in time for Valentines Day 2021 so it's definitely worth adding this to your list of potential cute reads.

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to Netgalley & Claire Frost for this ARC in return for an honest review.

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