Diary of a bookworm

The Wrong Mr. Right – Stephanie Archer

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Content Notes:

Published/Pages: 2022/374

POV: Dual – Hero & Heroine

Trope: Small Town Romance, Friends to Lovers

Goodreads Bookshelves: contemporary romance, favorites, friends to lovers, rom Com, small town

HEA: Yes

Steam Level: Extra Steamy

Swearing: Adult

Trigger Warnings: Alcohol, Death, Grief

My Rating:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Book Description:
He’ll make her hot, but can he make her his? Shy, quiet Hannah is surrounded by handsome, sensitive, swoon-worthy men…who are fictional. As her 30th birthday looms, she takes stock of her life: her small-town bookstore isn’t making ends meet and she’s never been in love. Something needs to change.
Women fall head over heels for laid-back, confident Wyatt… but all he cares about is surfing. The only thing holding him back from going pro? His non-existent social media presence. When Hannah offers to run his social media in exchange for hot girl lessons, it’s too good to pass up.
He’ll coax the pretty bookworm out of her shell, but they’ll do it his way.

My Goodreads Review (No Spoilers)

My Review (w/spoilers):

The first line of the book is; “Only in my worst nightmares would I make eye contact with Wyatt Rhodes while a customer read orc erotica to me”. It had me cracking up!  

Side note, I had no idea Orc Erotica was a thing. But it is. It’s a romance involving an orc (human like) with a penis the size of a whale (which is BIG). Weird… but to each their own I suppose. 

One of the many reasons I love this book is that Mrs. Archer really brings the whole small-town vibe. Even in this opening line, Don, the town news blogger, is complaining about how he got the wrong book. It’s something that’s continued throughout, and I LOVE little things like that. The little shops, like the bakery, the town doctor and the gay best friends, with the bachelor watching party. Serious small-town vibes. 

“I’m never going to meet someone hiding in my bookstore.” -Hannah

Any book that mentions Pride & Prejudice is obviously a book I can get behind. Not only was it Hannah’s favorite book, but her book shop was called Pemberly Books. Cute! My heart went out to her, trying to bring her bookstore out of the 80’s into the present. Not an easy task, especially with a dad determined to keep it in the past. She did a really amazing job at turning it around. 

Hannah and Wyatt have been going to the same school since elementary school. He didn’t start to notice and like her until his brother’s Emmett’s wedding (Book 1: That Kind of Guy) where they were the Best Man and Maid of Honor. 

“Her name was tattooed on the inner walls of my heart.” -Wyatt

Wyatt was unsure if Hannah liked him, and I related to the whole situation – IMMENSLEY. “I called her beautiful and she called me a weirdo. Well, there was my answer.” Same. Girls like us have a hard time wrapping our minds around the fact that someone as fine and charming as Wyatt would find us attractive, let alone like us. 

After her short-lived disastrous date with Carter, she spends the rest of it with Wyatt, who was already there to help her if anything went wrong. I mean… The fact that he noticed she didn’t like beer. *SWOON* The whole “her date, not our date, that wasn’t a date” was just so cute. And, when he helped her with the farmers market and then took her to the gallery. Ugghh! Such a good guy. 

“Be brave with me, bookworm.” -Wyatt 

And when she finally goes on a date with someone else, she talks about Wyatt the entire time, and then he shows up at her bedroom window! “There was a boy in my room.” I liked the possessive/jealous side. It wasn’t too much, but enough to be super sexy.  

Oh my gosh! When they did stuff for the first time while camping and Hannah was really loud because they thought no one could hear them, but they were wrong. And the town thought it was the missing hiker that was reported. SO embarrassing and hilarious! 

I have to say, one of my favorite parts is when they are about to have sex for the first time, and they’re taking each other’s clothes off, but she’s so excited and overwhelmed that she keeps fumbling and he says, “Come on, catch up”. Just a cute moment. 

My heart broke when Hannah told Wyatt that he was her practice guy. So freaking sad. I appreciated another Pride & Prejudice reference: “I wasn’t Elizabeth Bennett. I was Wickham, the backstabbing, two-timing liar who hurt and embarrassed Lizzie.” 

“Heart, meet sledgehammer.” -Wyatt 

I love that he calls her bookworm, so cute. The premise is that he’s going to make her a “hot girl”, but I love that to make her a hot chick, he just helped her break out of shell and be the girl she had always kept quiet. Surfing also helped her build her confidence in herself and of course, it’s Wyatt’s passion, so that made it even better. 

The epilogue is really cute. I loved that they got married on the beach. I also read the bonus honeymoon scene – STEAMY. But very them. 

Altogether, I will absolutely read this book again. A solid rom-com with so many swoony moments. 

This is book 2 in the Queen’s Cove Series. It is however, a standalone.