Title: The Mix-Up
Author: Elizabeth Neep
Genre: Humour | Women’s Fiction
Publisher: Bookouture, 27th May, 2021
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Description
What if you meet the love of your life, but he thinks you’re someone else?
Anna and Marley are best friends. So when Anna rings Marley, panicking because she has to miss a tour of an exclusive wedding venue, Marley agrees to go in her friend’s place.
After being totally ignored by the glamorous receptionist who can tell she doesn’t belong there, Marley meets handsome hotel manager Cameron. He assumes she’s Anna and instead of admitting that she’s not the blushing bride, but the unlucky-in-love single friend, Marley plays along to see what it’s like to be Anna for a day.
After all, Marley is unemployed, single and was woken up that morning by her flatmate playing the bagpipes. Anna has a high-flying career and is planning the perfect wedding. Why wouldn’t Marley want to be her?
Only she wasn’t counting on Cameron being so smart and funny. Or this spark between them that she can’t ignore. She hasn’t felt this way about a guy in forever. But he thinks she’s somebody better.
Marley needs a way out of this mix-up to get her shot at true love. But her fictional fiancé is now standing in her way and it’s harder than she thought to stop living someone else’s life…
A funny, uplifting and poignant story of friendship, love and finding your way. Fans of Dolly Alderton, Mhairi McFarlane and Holly Bourne will adore Elizabeth Neep’s wit and warmth.
Review
I really enjoyed The Mix-Up, Marley is down on her luck, no job and no partner while her best friend Anna is very successful. When Anna asks Marley to step in for her at a tour wedding venue, she is mistaken for Anna she plays along, what harm could it do to pretend to be her friend for the day?
This was a good book; it was fun, awkward and light read. Marley’s character came across so well, I felt the awkwardness emanate from her, her friendship with Anna even though they were best friends seemed to be a one-way type thing, Anna would pick Marley up whenever she needed her.
Even though this is described as a rom-com, I think it is much more than that, not so much romance as I’d like but a journey of self-discovery and a message of you are enough!
It is not the usual genre I would read but so glad I got to read it. It was a great book.
Author Bio
Elizabeth Neep was born in 1990 in Derbyshire and now lives in London Bridge. After studying Law at the University of Nottingham and the University of New South Wales, she worked in magazine journalism, most noticeably writing for Dazed and Confused and PETRIe. Elizabeth now works as a non-fiction Senior Commissioning Editor and writes and paints in her spare time.
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Disclaimer: I received a copy of this ebook from Netgalley, thank you to Bookouture for allowing me to review this book and be a part of the book tour.
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