This is a fun sapphic romance. A cute enemies to lovers story. The characters meet though a series of weddings of mutual friends.

This is a story about Audrey McFadden who is jilted in her wedding day by her fiancé Cody. Cody’s best friend since childhood is Monica Wallace. Monica tries to comfort Audrey in the church and says she told Cody not to marry Audrey. This begins a ten year period of time where Audrey takes her hurt and pain out in Monica. She hates her.

Audrey also learns she’s pregnant with Cody’s daughter and so she’s become a single parent of Emma. Cody is always traveling and rarely has time to see Emma.
Emma becomes Audrey’s whole life and they very close. Audrey is a very hard worker and eventually moves up the corporate ladder and is living a good life.

Then five weddings take place in the same year with all of Audrey’s friends. And of course Monica is at all of these too. They have mutual friends that they all went to college with.
With all this togetherness Audrey can’t avoid Monica and she actually begins to feel a very strong attraction to her.

I liked Audrey’s friend Trina and how she was blunt and upfront with her.

Georgia Beers is a favorite author of mine and she did a great job with the dialogue and emotions between Monica and Audrey.

This was a quick and enjoyable read and recommend to my book friends.

ARC received from Net Galley for an honest and voluntary review.

this book starts on Aubrey’s wedding day but her soon to be husband leaves after speaking to his best friend Monica. Aubrey blames and hates Monica so avoids her. It’s now ten years later and all her friends are getting married in the same year so now Aubrey and Monica are around each other, can they be friends or continute to not speak?

this was a fast paced and enjoyable read, I liked the characters, the wedding invitations at the beginning of each part were cute. however, as much as I liked it as I was reading, I can’t see myself revisiting. I also was a bit confused on how they had gone ten years avoiding each other if they were in the same friendship group, like had they only just seen each other this year because of all the weddings? That just didn’t make a lot of sense to me. my other complaint would be the third act breakup ish, I could just see it coming and it all came down to not communicating but other than that the romance was very sweet and fluffy and a little spicy too.

if you’re looking for a shot and sweet, feel good, rom com vibe read, I’d recommend this one!

thank you NetGalley for the arc - releasing April 9th

tropes:
-sapphic romance
-enemies to lovers
-unrequited love
-single parent

This is one of the sweetest books I’ve ever encountered, and I enjoyed every moment of reading.

The book starts with Aubrey getting dumped by her boyfriend, Coby, at the altar. And that is not all. She’s pregnant. The reason for all of this? Monica Wallace, that gorgeous blonde ice queen with blue eyes who talked Coby out of this marriage on the day of the wedding. After ten years, her friends are getting married and she keeps bumping into her archnemesis, Monica. However, something more blooms…and why do people keep saying that Monica always had a thing for her? That’s ridiculous, right?

Like most books of Georgia Beers’, this one is a highly sweet, low-angst book that left me eagerly rooting for the characters to embrace their connection and find their home in each other. I liked nearly all the characters, but I too, fell in love with Monica. She may have her flaws, but her heart and loyalty are something that warms the hearts of people. Loving someone like Monica did is no easy thing to do.
I was a little sad that there was not much direct interaction shown between Monica and Emma, Aubrey’s daughter in the book, considering that Emma is one of the most important people in Aubrey’s life. Of course, Monica and Emma are close enough since Emma was already calling Monica ‘Aunt Monica’. However, I did miss the interaction between a child and soon-could-be-mom. Except that, I loved the book so much. And the spice was spicy and sweet, which is the best spice ever. I would also love to hear this story again from Monica’s perspective!

Entirely 5 stars!! Georgia Beers slays again.

I loved this! Georgia Beers completely ignored the usual “formula”, and the result was amazing. With a jaw dropping opening scene, great characters, an unusual structure which works out perfectly with the story and a very clever book layout (you’ll see the chapter openers if you read it) I thought this book was perfect.

I really enjoyed this romance and I liked the premise, even if it was heart wrenching at first. I think it was smart how the book was structured, and it was a light, breezy read getting to fall in love with Aubrey and Monica. Another lovely read from Georgia Beers!

This is not a spoiler- your heart will get ripped straight from your chest in the opening scene because Aubrey has been jilted. On her wedding day!
Now, ten years later, we have to follow her on the roller coaster ride as she navigates through five weddings, and they’re all happening in the same year! How cruel for our MC! On this ride we get to see Aubrey and her “wedding-wrecker” nemesis Monica who is also a member of the friend-group. Oh Monica, do we know anything about her? She is our foil for each of the weddings they both have to attend. While our intrepid MC’s navigate the events, they maneuver into and out of each other’s space. We meet their mutual friends and see how this will be a fabulous slow-burn never-ending dance. There’s just enough angst to keep you honest and anticipating. It’s also a shorter novel, which means it moves us along a little more quickly. Make no mistake though, it’s still a marvelous ride we get to take. Smart, thoughtful, and definitely a romance.

The premise of this one was interesting but there were some things about the execution that didn’t quite work for me.

Aubrey McFadden was left on her wedding day a decade ago and she blames it all on Monica Wallace who convinced her husband-to-be to walk away. She’s happily avoided Monica since, but all their college friends have decided to get married this year and five weddings means they can’t quite avoid each other even if Aubrey wants to try.

The novel is structured in a series of parts based on each wedding and an epilogue which obviously had to be their own wedding. Unfortunately, the parts didn’t feel balanced. Some focused entirely on the wedding while others barely had any focus on the wedding. I found myself wanting to know more about their regular lives early in the novel and wanting more from the weddings late in the novel.

Emma was probably my favorite character and I really felt like her personality came through. Cody on the other hand was a bit one dimensional.

Overall, this was an enjoyable read but it also isn’t one I’m likely to remember.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC!

I enjoyed this one - it was short and sweet!

Nothing too complex, it's a nice and easy book to read - the perfect beach book!

I loved how Aubrey and Monica's relationship developed throughout the book rather than it being a jump start relationship with no background.

Hated Cody with passion - Aubrey was way nicer than I would've been!

AUBREY MCFADDEN IS NEVER GETTING MARRIED is a quasi enemies-to-lovers sapphic romance about aubrey mcfadden, whose wedding day is ruined by her fiancé's best friend, monica wallace, when she breaks the news that the wedding is called off. aubrey spends the next ten years hating monica and avoiding her at all costs, until all of their mutual friends decide to get married within the span of a year and she can no longer avoid her. with each wedding, aubrey realizes that maybe she doesn't hate monica at all and that maybe, just maybe, she's insanely attracted to her and might be catching feelings instead. i love everything i've read from georgia beers so far, and this did not disappoint in the slightest. aubrey and monica's chemistry was so good and their relationship built up from nemesis to friends to dating in a very realistic way. if you love a medium burn and lots of banter and pining, you'll love this book.

Oh I do love a Georgia Beers romance story and throughly enjoyed reading Aubrey and Monica’s story. This is very much Audrey’s story from her point of view and we experience the highs and lows of her attending a series of weddings.

Full of Beers humour, snappy banter, loveable characters, sizzling chemistry between the two main protagonists, this is an interesting take on what constitutes a perfect wedding. A perfect quick read that has a few mentions of loveable characters from other beers books, always a pleasure to catch a glimpse of again.

Highly recommend Aubrey MaFadden Is Never Getting Married.. Loved it!

I loved this book! The format of it where each part is a different wedding made it super fun to read, and the wedding invite details added to it! The books follows the main character, Aubrey, who gets dumped at the alter and then gets invited to five weddings in one year. These weddings shove her and her enemy from college back together and romantic tension continues to build from there. Part 2 also included some forced proximity action, and it was also my favorite part. I also really enjoyed the care for Emma, Aubrey's kid, that Monica showed throughout the storyline. There is a few spicy scenes in here later in the book. In the book there are four sapphic characters; Aubrey a bisexual, Monica a lesbian, and Sarah and Bailey one of the couples getting married.

Overall i would really recommend this read, it was relatively quick and kept me turning the page!

I received an ARC through NetGally for a honest opinion.

Thank you to Bold Stroke Books and NetGalley for the ARC.


Aubrey McFadden is Never Getting Married is a book about Aubrey, who—on the day of her wedding, wedding dress on—gets broken up with by her college sweetheart, Cody. The reason? His best friend, Monica, talked him out of marrying her. Aubrey has hated her ever since. Ten years later, her college friends have all arranged to get married within the year. And in all 5 weddings, Aubrey vows to avoid Monica in every single one.

This book is full of cliches and predictable plot points but... I kinda enjoyed it? It's like a guilty pleasure. Sometimes you just need a cliche cutesy little romance book in you can turn off your brain to in your life.

Now, onto the reasons I rated this book the way I did.

I wish Aubrey and Cody's relationship before them breaking up at the start was more expounded upon. It sucks that she got broken up like that, but I only felt a disconnected empathy for a character I didn't know very well yet, when that moment could've been so much more.

I also wish exposition on Monica and Cody's friendship came earlier and was shown more, again to further add impact to the conflicts and to the enemies to lovers, "you ruined my wedding!" archetype the book wanted to achieve. The enemies to lovers wasn't as strong or present as I was expecting, and had me disappointed.

Now, my first qualm. Never in the first third of the book do they say or even imply Aubrey had attraction to women at all. Which made me very confused when suddenly it was introduced into the story like it was common knowledge. I wish we were more introduced to who Aubrey was a person, and that goes for everyone else in the book for that matter. I wish the characters had more depth.

Another qualm I have is the over repetition of some words. Examples being: "blue eyes" (we get it, her eyes are blue), "delicious", and the worst offender of all for me, "de-escalating escalated phone calls". The fact that the call requires de-escalation already illicitly implies that the call has escalated, so the phrasing of it irked me the wrong way. That's falling into nitbit territory, though. We move on.

The ending conflict was just... conflict. I don't really see what its point was for the story, aside from just to have said conflict. I wish more of the conflict in this book came internally from Aubrey figuring herself out and actually taking in and accepting her feelings, rather than what actually happened.

Overall, I found the book fun and entertaining. Though, that was it. I enjoyed it, but I wish this book had given me more.

Ten years ago, Aubrey's boyfriend left her on the day of their wedding and it is his best friend Monica's fault. She talked him out of it. Now, ten years later, many of their friends are getting married, all in the same year. And Aubrey and Monica are invited to all five of the weddings. Aubrey will be there for her friends but she needs to avoid Monica at all costs. We know where this is going, right?

Half-way into the novel, Aubrey accepts that things have changed between her and Monica. "What a novel concept" she says to herself when she realizes that she sees Monica and what happened ten years ago in a different light.

What a novel concept, indeed. You see, most of the novel is set in the future, events happening all into 2026! But besides writing suddenly science fiction, this is a sweet, well-written enemies-to-lovers romance as you would expect from Georgia Beers.

Only, in the last third, the book becomes strangely uneven. Characters suddenly seem to have forgotten when they met last time and people keep changing what they know about Monica's past dating life. This makes the story a little bit less relatable. But maybe this is an alternate-reality effect, the novel being set in the future and all. None of this has happened yet and all is possible!

P.S. The invitation cards for the weddings are really cute.

(based on an ARC from NetGalley)

This was an enjoyable novel. It was fun and clever, and I tore through it quickly. Unfortunately, it was also somewhat underwhelming and forgettable. This was the type of novel that I enjoyed the entire time that I was reading it, but I moved on quickly and won't be revisiting. This novel had some great moments in it and I certainly got some great laughs.

Firmly upper-mid-range; I think any reader would likely enjoy reading this one however I wouldn’t be likely to recommend it simply because there are so many better options out there. This is my first novel by this author and it was promising enough that I will certainly be checking out more of their work.

Highlights:
-The prologue was an excellent hook. Very well done, it set the scene and background for the novel, and finished with a bang! The reader was able to start the novel with a decent impression of the main characters and a firm understanding of the situation without the need for an infodump.
-I liked the structure of the story, with the five weddings spaced over the course of a year. This provided for a relatively organic method of creating forced proximity and interactions between the characters (who otherwise wouldn’t interact) to allow for the story/relationship to progress. This element often feels forced in similar novels but that wasn’t an issue here. This also allowed for a cooldown and reflection period for the characters between interactions. Overall, it just worked well, and I thought it was well done.
-The characters (main and side!) were not perfect but they were very enjoyable and overall well done. Aubrey’s daughter was a delight, Cody had a nice character redemption arc, the main’s were distinct and interesting, and the ensemble cast of side characters added to the novel and fleshed out the world of the story. There were a lot of good side relationships, particularly Aubrey and Cody as they worked out their past history and came to a mature and comfortable place by the end of the story.

Nitpicks:
-So much of the plot of this novel depends on characters utterly failing to communicate, or making strange choices I didn’t understand (and were not really explained satisfyingly). I kept finding myself frustrated by characters not asking or saying something that I felt was the incredibly obvious thing they should be saying in that situation. Lots of problems the characters faced were pointless and unnecessary, and they were also resolved shockingly easily.
-Their relationship development was a little underwhelming for me, strangely paced, and a little forced. The driving factor seemed to simply be a purely physical attraction for most of the novel; this is fine, however it doesn’t do all that much for me. There was a lot of animosity between these characters (well, one side) and it all disappeared surprisingly fast and easily.
-Some of the writing fell flat for me. I had a hard time putting my finger on what it was, but for some reason it just didn’t resonate with me the way other novels do. It also felt rather rushed at times and lacking on detail in some places (it wasn’t that long so this makes sense!). This could just be a personal thing!

Thank you to NetGalley for providing a free ARC in exchange or an honest review.

I loved this story. It is focused similar to the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, not exactly like that but the different successive weddings are the path that makes the two protagonists meet again and again, unfortunately for Aubrey, who does not have a high regard for Monica, understandable. after reading the prologue of the book.

They both belong to the same group of friends since college, so Aubrey has to put up with sharing space with Monica, whether she wants it or not, for the sake of her friends who have decided to all get married successively and in a row.

The story is told from Aubrey's point of view, so that makes us feel her physical and psychological pain and really makes us empathize with her. It also shows us her family environment and her friends who support her and have done so since her heartbreak, her daughter Emma, her best friend Trina. Monica initially appears as a character to hate, but that doesn't last long and she ends up being super likable. The events are inevitable and she acts with the expected caution, thank goodness Aubrey doesn't do it as much and lets herself go, although incomprehensibly for her after the past between them.

It has been a truly moving read, with so many weddings, so much love in the air. Very enjoyable.

Aubrey is happy that her college friends are getting married despite the fact her marriage didn’t happen and some reason it’s happening within a year she has five weddings and thats means seeing the woman who she thinks talk her fiancé into not getting married. Aubrey stills feel anger towards Monica even though she wouldn’t change her life now because she has a beautiful daughter Emma who going on thirty she say but she can’t help wonder what could’ve happened but as she tries to avoid Monica which in my opinion she not really doing a good of it starts feels something more then anger towards and when her friends tells they believe Monica always had thing she starts to wonder is it’s true. Good read


I received an ARC copy of this book from the Publisher via Netgalley and voluntarily leaving my review.

Beers is an author that you highly anticipate their next book and this one far succeeded expectations. It was different than what Beers normally writes even though I haven't had the pleasure of reading all of her books, which I need to rectify soon to be honest. It seems like each book just gets better and better.

Aubrey Mcfadden is never getting married. After getting left the day of her wedding, she's sworn of marriage and decides to focus on her daughter, the one good thing she has in her life. She has five weddings to attend in one year and the last person she wants to see is Monica Wallace who supposedly had a thing for her way back when, but who Aubrey blames for what happened on her wedding day. Monica just so happens to be her ex's best friend.

She plans to avoid Monica, but nothing goes according to plan and Aubrey finds herself noticing Monica more and feelings things she shouldn't be feeling for her archenemies. Each wedding, the feelings seem to grow and Aubrey is looking at Monica in a new light. It's confusing and exhilarating and could be so much more if Aubrey let it.

This had all the feels and the longing and the chemistry and so much more. I wish i could put into words how much I loved this book. So much I almost reread it again. From first meeting again to first kisses to everything else, this book was utter perfection and I can't recommend this more if I tried. I loved it.

I received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Georgia Beers is one of my favorite authors but this book left me feeling a little underwhelmed. I liked the story idea and blurb but I think the main problem was the length of the novel. Being so short it didn’t feel like there was enough time for some real in-depth character development and I didn’t feel myself connecting with Aubrey and Monica as much as in her other books.

That being said, this is by no means a bad book. It does gain momentum as it goes along, and the one love scene was typical Beers- level steamy. I would recommend this book for anyone in the mood for a quick read or really wanting a romance centered around weddings, but as far as Georgia Beers’ books there are better ones out there (Dance with Me, Camp Lost and Found, Too Close to Touch being a few).

I have only read one or two books by Georgia Beers. However, I don't know why, but I absolutely loved this book and I'm planning to read more of her books! I knew it was going to be a great read just by reading the prologue, and it didn't disappoint me.

I love Georgia Beers's writing style. I'm captivated from the beginning to the end. Aubrey and Monica are such charming characters. I only wish we could explore more about Monica; she still feels like a mystery to me. But overall, I enjoyed this book a lot. It's the perfect romance I needed!