Exposing The Groom by Rachel Van Dyken

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Killian swept in like a knight in shining leather pants to save Scarlett once she exposed the groom. The next time they saw each other, they ended up fake-engaged. Can they find a way to make it down the aisle together and live happily ever after? Find out in #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken’s EXposing the Groom, a romantic comedy with a side of rockstar.

How it started:
An accidental phone grab during my rehearsal dinner while my fiancé went to use the restroom.

How it ended:
Reading all the dirty texts between him and my maid of honor, aka little sister, during our vows in of the world in what would later be considered one of the most viral wedding videos on TikTok.
Of. All. Time.
Did I mention his vows were before mine, and he compared me to my adopted dog because… and I quote, “I’m so loyal.”
It’s not my fault that my first instinct, after exposing his dirty lies, was to run up to the clueless rockstar that was supposed to headline my reception and ask him to sing my tears away. I never expected him to help me escape certain disaster, kiss me senseless, and then buy me ice cream.
But that was all in the past—until I’m staring down at a wedding invitation from the crappy little crap pants ex. You see, he swapped sisters, and now a year later, they’re getting married at a gorgeous winery while I’m still staring down at a plus one, wondering if I can bring my pet turtle.

How it happened:
In desperation, I sent a drunken text to the hot rockstar with a picture of my turtle, Chuck Norris… in a bowtie. Who knew he would show up at the wedding—but get this, it wasn’t to save me, nope, it was to… yup, SING!
SHE STOLE HIM TOO!
But now that he’s there and I’m there, and the history is there, I beg him one more time to save me, this time as my date.
But lie after lie just kept pouring out of my mouth until we were somehow fake-engaged.
I would laugh if crying didn’t feel so good.
Should have brought the freaking turtle…

Exposing the Groom

Fake fiancé rom-com!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☺️😊🙃🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Scarlett – she was about to marry a wealthy man named Rob when at the rehearsal dinner, she finds a bunch of scandalous texts between him and her sister and maid of honor. She waits until the actual wedding and as her vows, she reads back the texts to the crowd. Exposing her cheating groom and her sister. The texts reveal that Rob just wanted Scarlett because she was loyal, and everyone liked her. She would be a great trophy wife, plus her father had business contacts that he could use.

The Hero: Killian – he is a famous rockstar who was paid big to play at what was supposed to be the biggest wedding in Seattle, when the beautiful bride comes up to him crying and asks him to sing for her. So, he does. He was in Britain’s most famous boy band until four years ago when the band broke up and everyone blamed him, and he has gone quiet ever since. He feels he really is doing bad going from playing sold out stadiums to playing in a wedding.

The story: Scarlett goes viral, not for her wedding vows, but for the fact that she is serenaded by Killian while crying and holding his hand. She ends up kissing Killian and going off with him on a date afterwards. Two months later, Killian has a new album hitting high on the charts and is back to singing in sold out stadium shows. A year later, Scarlett is invited to the wedding of her sister and Rob. Killian is supposed to play at the wedding as a way to redeem himself from “stealing” the bride at the last wedding where he was supposed to play.

This book was fun and a bit silly. The characters and supporting characters were all terrific. I liked the fact that Scarlett and Killian were bickering throughout the story. There is plenty of laughs and a few good storylines including some issues both main characters have, and the evil fiancé stealing sister, a fear of mice, a shellfish allergy and much more.

This audiobook was narrated in dual points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Monica King and David Brenin. Monica King has a decent voice, she isn’t one of my favorites, but you can’t tell she is reading. David Brenin also isn’t one of my favorites, I tend to like a deeper voice in my favorite male narrators. He does have an English accent, though I think his voice fit much better for Rob than for Killian and his voice for female characters is awful. Also, he sounds way too old to be Killian.

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