GRR Reviews Modern Girl's Guide To Vacation Flings by Gina Drayer

Modern Girl's Guide to Vacation Flings is a "pseudo-guide" in that the guide was used as a backdrop for the romance, and it was pretty good except some of the comedy moments seems rather forced, but the slow-simmer romance was quite enchanting.

To recap, Beth ran away from her life to get on a cruise as she can't bear to see her boyfriend dumped her for her younger sister, and they are going to get married. Matt was dragged onto a family vacation/cruise to celebrate his parent's anniversary and was getting set up with a woman she can't stand. When Matt asked Beth to be his pretend girlfriend (mainly because they met on the plane) to save his sanity, Beth accepted due to boredom but found herself attracted to the big family and found Matt to be a charming guy, and perfect for a vacation fling. But as time went on, Beth found herself more attached than she wanted... and Matt found himself completely smitten...

My problem is both the FMC and MMC did total mental flip-out into full-blown panic attacks relatively early in the book, which seems to be way out of character for both. Then the mental break was never discussed again as if it's just there for comic relief. But overall, it's a fun "forced fake BF/GF turned real" story.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Woman who ran away from her problems agreed to be fake girlfriend for a guy avoiding his own problems while on a cruise...

Tropes: fake engagement, resort (cruise), fling to a thing, sibling problem,

Overall Rating:  4/5 (rounded up)