The Worst Best Man: A Novel

Mia Sosa is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance. She is half Puerto-Rican and half Brazilian. She was raised in the USA by her mother and her mother's two divorced sisters.Carolina Santos is jilted at the altar by her fiance, Andrew Hartley, all courtesy of the best man and Andrew's younger brother Max. The last Lina remembers of them is Max informing her that Andrew won't be showing up for their wedding, while also confessing that it was because of something that Max said.Fast forward three years, Lina is a wedding planner, who helps women achieve their dream wedding. She is offered an opportunity to interview for the position of a wedding coordinator at the Cartwright Hotels. However, it requires a small sacrifice at her end; she has to work with the man because of whom her wedding fell apart. Max Hartley needs to make this collaboration a success to finally get out of his elder brother's shadow and prove his worth as a marketing expert. The only challenge is that Lina loathes him. As they both struggle to look beyond their differences to make this work, hatred is not the only emotion they have to battle with.Similar to the author, Lina is the daughter of immigrants and is raised by her mother and divorced aunts. I adored Lina's portrayal by the author. Lina is of the Afro-Latinx heritage and is an over-achiever. She has witnessed the struggles her mother and aunts had to face and uses this as a constant reminder to drive herself. She is a tough, ambitious, sassy woman who believes in maintaining control over her emotions.The characters in the book are hilarious. Lina's family is close-knit, and stands by her; it is amusing and touching to read about it. Max suffers the brunt of it multiple times. The chemistry between Max and Lina is sweet and delightful, though developing feelings for one's ex-fiance's brother sounds far fetched.Max Hartley is swoony and charming. The author has done an excellent job of exploring Max and Andrew's relationship. It adds substance to Max's character as well as contributes to the plot.I enjoyed the book, and give it 4/5 stars. The author's writing is funny, sweet, and refreshing. I look forward to reading the next in the series- The Wedding Crasher. It follows the life of Dean, Max's best friend.

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The Worst Best Man is my first book by Mia Sosa and is a hilarious enemies-to-lovers romance about wedding planner Lina and her ex-fiancé’s brother Max and about opening yourself up to a chance at love.On the day of her wedding to Andrew, Lina is told by her fiancé’s brother, and best man, Max that Andrew isn’t coming, and Max had a role in the decision. Three years later, at a wedding reception she’s planned, she meets Rebecca, the CEO of a hotel group who is looking to hire a full-time wedding planner. Jumping at the chance, Lina arrives at the interview, until she meets the representatives from the marketing company, Andrew and Max. As she has to work with one of them closely for her pitch to Rebecca, she decides Max is the better option. It also gives her the opportunity to get back at him for his role in her failed wedding, and so begins a hilarious back and forth of pranks and one up man ship. Throughout, an underlying attraction builds between them, but both can’t imagine the other feels the same, due to the almost forbidden nature of their chemistry. Until they are suddenly thrown into the situation where they must act like a couple and real feelings are admitted. Will they be able to make it work with them as a couple, and impress Rebecca, or are they doomed from the start thanks to both of their hidden insecurities?TWBM was great, such an enjoyable, easy romcom read with relatable characters and a lot of steam. Both Max and Lina had a lot of feelings buried underneath their calm and collected exteriors, for different reasons. Max was in constant competition with Andrew and always has felt second best, not realising his strengths are different to his brother’s and that it’s not a bad thing. I really felt for him and understood his feelings, although I liked how he never pursued Lina to get back at Andrew, it was purely down to his own feelings for her. He was sweet, charming and funny, such endearing qualities and I really liked his character, he helped to push Lina out of her comfort zone and realise who she really wanted to be with. Lina was tough on the outside, keeping her emotions hidden to prevent being labelled as overdramatic or emotional like many black or lantinx women are, especially in the workplace, which was eye-opening. She was so strong, smart and determined, she knew what she wanted. I admired her outlook at the end, she let Max come to his senses by himself, but also had some self-realisation on her own too. She was so proud of her heritage and her family, all she wanted to do was make them proud, which she succeeded in every day just by being her.At no point did I feel like their relationship was taboo or forbidden. As Max mentioned, Andrew was just someone who Mia dated previously, and I think that viewpoint was helped by how different Andrew and Max were but also how they weren’t close as brothers, they felt more like colleagues. Another thing I loved was the Brazilian representation and culture within this book. I loved how Lina and her family spoke Portuguese, not just words or phrases but full sentences. I felt introduced into the culture alongside Max, including the food and the dances and so many other culture references, it was so well written and has only increased my desire to visit Brazil.Lina’s family and other side characters like Max’s best friend Dean really helped make the story become more real and I am intrigued if any of them get their own books, I would love to read more from this group. Mia’s writing was great, really engaging and kept me interested.Overall, The Worst Best Man was a fun, entertaining and hilarious read which I devoured in one day. I would highly recommend this book, it had everything a romantic comedy needs, and it certainly won’t be my last by Mia.

I loved linas family! And I love that she sicked them on Max I thought that was so funny!Almost straight from the beginning you could see that max and Lina had a undeniable pull between them which was obviously made awkward by the fact that she was going to marry his brother.However I do have to say it didn't completely make sense to me why years later lina blamed max for what andrew did, sometimes its appeared even more then she actually did him.That seemed a little immature, blame Andrew and not want to be around him, sure but all max was supposed to have done was give him advice he didn't make him do anything, in the end it was his decision.Anyways other then that, it was a funny and sweet read.Not the best romcom I've ever read but definitely not the worst. Just sort of the middle of the road hence the star rating.

First impression: The cover screams nauseating chick lit to me, which would usually put me off, instantly. However, as it turns out, it was refreshing to read this romantic comedy that has a female character of Brazilian heritage. The reader is given a taste of Brazilian culture, which I found informative and interesting.The upside: There is a lot of good stuff in this book, especially the development of both characters, which I found insightful. The observations on human behaviour are very good, particularly, how both Max and Lina react to the negative experiences they have had to face, the impact those experiences have had on them (their personal demons), the conflict that results, and how they navigate through it.I also liked the way the reader is given an insight into both Lina’s and Max’s professional roles, and how they worked together. The author really did her homework! You can see how they managed to achieve the outcome they did. I enjoyed that aspect more than the romance!There were laugh out loud moments.I am always happy to discover a book which has a main character that is under-represented in fiction.The downside: I was not keen on the style of writing: in particular, the romance was too sweet for my taste - sickly sweet, in parts, and their sexual exploits made me cringe.It took too long to reach the conflict (about 80% into the story), and the resolution was rushed and lacked Wow! factor.The verdict: It may not be a great work of fiction, but it is good escapism.

This book is fine if you want something quick to read that you don't really need to think about at all.I enjoyed parts of the book such as Max's relationship with his brother, however I found the character of Lina really lacked a personality, apart from being Brazilian (which must have been mentioned 100+ times) we learnt very little about her as a person and there was little to no character development.Also all the conflict was very forced, particularly towards the end of the book, it was very much "oh no I've reached the third act and have run out of things to write so lets randomly rip the couple apart" as well as many other cliches.Like I said, the book is fine, but I doubt I will be reading more from this author.

First of all yes!!!! The diversity in this book was just everything. Like I've read a lot of romcoms but there isn't usually a heroine who is from a different ethnicity.Anyway moving on The Worst Best Man was exactly what I needed after reading some heavy, emotional books, this is light-hearted, fun, sexy and such a feel good.I liked Lina's character and what she represented, however, I felt like her character was a bit too reserved. However, as I got further into the book, the truth behind why she is reversed and stubborn becomes clear. Her relationship with her family is great, a good dose of drama which reminded me of My Big Fat Greek Wedding.Enter Max. The tall, dark, handsome stranger and is everything Lina doesn't want, at least that's what she keeps telling herself. In reality, Max is EVERYTHING like oh my swoon-worthy alert!Warning, there is a lot of sex in this book. I had no idea how much there would be but honestly, if sex scenes aren't your thing, thats fine. However, I will say this, the way in which Sosa writes such scenes depicts what *safe* sex should be like and ultimately, what healthy sex should be like. Not only that but the honesty and unfiltered scenes are exactly how sex scenes should be addressed.