This book was a nice, easy quick read. I loved the tie in with reality tv shows. It was well written, descriptive and it flowed nicely. Seemed a little rushed in the ending but would read more of this authors work.

This is Nell and Luke’s book, Luke runs his grandfathers dive bar, Nell is a perpetual student they both decide to go on a national television show saying I do to $1 million dollars!! Nell needs to pay off her student loans and Luke needs the money to pay off the mortgage on the bar! This book was freaking awesome it was so funny and definitely had some steam to it , it was really good! I highly recommend reading this one! It was such a fun enjoyable read! Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for sharing this book with me!

wow, i blew through this one! this is my 4th katy evans book, i think? and it is the one i have enjoyed the most. i don't know what about it worked for me exactly but it really did. i liked the two main characters separately and together, which is always a bonus. it was fairly fast paced and very readable. the conflict was a wee bit predictable and you could see it coming and you kinda want to shake characters when something like this happens, but eh. what can you do. i liked the way it wrapped up. overall this was a solid, enjoyable read for me.

4* Was on track for this to be a 5* read if not for the contrived - but not entirely unexpected - angst shortly before the end of the tale.

This is a tale that's better than the blurb, and that pretty much anyone who's watched a reality TV show can visualise. I won't go into detail and Spoiler it, but it is really well done, with a couple of very decent leads who come from different stations in life and whose lives have been poles apart, but who are a case of opposites attract. And, in the case of Penny/Nell, that attraction terrifies her because her life as a student and degree holder and PHD holder hasn't prepared her for real life and for seeing herself as a woman and fancying a guy who at first glance is all about the beefcake. And Luke sees her as a cool, collected challenge who he'd like to see, and get, all flustered.

There's behind the scenes stuff, competing, bitching and more and I could picture these guys and all the other contestants working together. But, when the tale seemingly was ending, around 82% gone, I knew that couldn't be the case and lo and behold the author dropped in something so predictable that I could see it coming a mile off, and, I couldn't see how P/N couldn't. That's what lost the tale 1* for me, as she should have had a little faith, as by then she and Luke were something real and she was wise to the machinations of the TV crew/directors/host etc. I didn't think it was really necessary and it did require a bit of suspension of disbelief, and I couldn't stop the eye-rolling.

But, it's a romance and the tables get turned quite satisfyingly. I'd definitely read more from this author.

ARC courtesy of Montlake Publishing and NetGalley, for my reading pleasure.