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Review: Bride Bargain by Cassie Mint

I’ve loved him since high school. Now he’s my hot but socially awkward boss.

And this morning he proposed marriage in the elevator…

Elliot Ramsay has always been… a little awkward. A genius? Absolutely. Clothes-meltingly gorgeous? Oh, you’d better believe it. But ever since high school math class, I’ve been the only one who’s really understood the guy.

Until now, anyway.

Because I do not get it. I don’t get why marrying will somehow fix Elliot’s public image, and I don’t get why he’s picked me when he’s rich and powerful enough to have anyone. Don’t get how we’ve survived years and years of sexual tension, only for him to blow it all up at 9am in the office elevator.

But the most confusing thing of all?

I don’t know why I agreed.

And now I need to keep my hands off my husband…

Bride Bargain is a short and steamy instalove novella, starring one socially awkward boss and the assistant who’d do anything for him.

Title:Bride Bargain
Author:Cassie Mint
Series:Marrying the Boss (Book 4)
Pages:75
Category / Genre(s):Contemporary
Trope(s):Insta Love
Best Friends to Lovers
Workplace Romance
Point of View:First Person, Present Tense, Dual Viewpoint (H & h)
Location:USA
HEA:✔️
Release Date:26th September, 2024
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Cute tale of clueless friends to lovers

4 stars

I’m always up for a little Cassie Mint insta love and have read most of the Marrying The Boss, multi-author series of which this is the fourth book. Each books stands alone and they’re only connected by the theme. In this story we get Claire, loyal assistant to her best friend and boss, Elliot. Now, in order to fix another scandal involving Elliot, Claire inexplicably agrees to marry him. But it’s being in love with her new husband that turns out is the biggest problem of all.

We meet Claire when she’s high-tailing it to the office for her job as assistant to the sexy, awkward and completely clueless, Elliot. Claire’s been in love with him since high school but Elliot has no idea. Claire and Elliot are best friends but I would have liked to see them hang out more before they agreed to the whole marriage thing. I don’t really feel I got to know Claire all that well but I did enjoy her calling out Elliot’s plan to marry her to save his reputation. It’s like when someone in a musical wonders how everyone knows the words to the songs!

“I’m always up for a little Cassie Mint insta love…”

Elliot was a similar mystery to me but for a completely different reason. He’s a little awkward – but not usually when it comes to Claire. But he didn’t realise she was in love with him and got all kinds of not awkward when things got heated. I suppose what I’m saying is I found him, well, awkward – which I suppose is the whole point!

It’s a short story (75 pages) so it’s never going to give me the character development or backstory that a longer book might bring – but I did feel I wanted to know more about Claire and Elliot as friends before they became a couple. It would have helped me feel their dynamic, I think. But they do have plenty of chemistry – especially sexually – which is always a nice bonus!

It’s not my favourite book of Cassie Mint’s but, as always, she got me interested in the story and kept me wanting to keep reading. It’s a fun, short and sexy tale and one that I’d happily recommend for insta-love romance lovers (even though technically, it’s not insta-love since our couple have known each other since school!) or fans of Cassie Mint. 4 stars.

4 stars

* I received this book in exchange for my honest review

Cassie Mint Author Picture

Cassie Mint – Romance Author & Daydreamer Extraordinaire

Cassie Mint is a romance author with her head firmly in the clouds.

She writes outrageous, OTT instalove with tons of sugar and steam!

Cassie loves growly, possessive alpha heroes who fall HARD for their heroines and will do anything for that HEA.

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