Review: Marriage of Inconvenience

Marriage of Inconvenience by Penny Reid
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

MARRIAGE OF INCONVENIENCE has been a highly anticipated read for many of us for a long time — ever since the Vegas Incident — and I am happy to report that it does not disappoint.
 
As we’ve come to expect from this series, things aren’t all that straightforward for these knitters & co. I don’t want to reveal too much, because so much of the fun is in the unexpected directions Reid goes in or, rather, how everything falls in to place along the way. Not to mention how everyone has a role to play, a piece to contribute, and that made it very Team Knitting vs Bad Guy and I loved that rounded feel to it all. Especially perfect for a final book.
 
And speaking of those characters.. my goodness. Reid has been teasing us for months about Dan’s potty mouth and those curses seriously f…king delivered. The hilarity, the verbal hijinks, the honest and charming horn-dog-ness of him He’s just the right amount of protective, he’s totally uncompromising when it comes to what he wants, and he’ll even play a little dirty to get it. But he’s also a straight-shooter and after the initial misunderstanding that kept them apart, he’s quick to make sure there are no repeats along the way. Though that doesn’t mean there aren’t some little miscommunications that cause a bit of angsty confusion, they end up being totally hilarious. And the scenes with his mum? Just hysterical. I seriously loved Dan so so much. Have I already said that? Dan had me charmed from the beginning to the end.
“There’s a difference between being honest with someone, and trying to drive someone away in the name of honesty.”
Kat, on the other hand, was totally unexpected. She was so different from what we’ve thought her to be, with such a dreadful past, and her struggles were so real. At times, of course, frustrating but they were frustrating for her too. And it was always coming from a good, if uncertain or insecure, place. There was an added element to her interactions with Dan that I really enjoyed and yeah, that’s all you’re getting out of me, no spoiling it! But also, I loved the balance of these two — the heiress and the ex-con — and how beautifully they could take down their opponents with an un-choreographed verbal take down while sipping a cup of coffee.
 
And of course, we couldn’t have a Knitting in the City book without the other knitters. I fully expected to cry after coming to the final page of this book, especially after some of the earlier scenes that spoke of change, and I didn’t. Why? Because Reid doesn’t end on a sad note. She gives us our last glimpse of these ladies in exactly the way we ought to remember them.

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