There are also some heartfelt moments too, in particular the background of one of the minor characters and a family emergency. To top it off, the story is funny in places! Real giggle worthy stuff of the best rom-com type. I felt really comfortable with the characters. Reading about Nik, Carlos and the rest of the characters (except Fisher, who is a giant douche) made me feel like I was coming home. They feel responsibility to their families. They eat full meals and multiple cupcakes – yay! They swear. These characters all mirror the real people you see in the real world and have realistic flaws to match. There is also a wide range of diversity in the novel – Nik is black, Carlos is Latino and there are a wide range of body shapes, ethnicities and sexualities.
I don’t know if it was just me, but the food descriptions in the novel are divine! Cupcakes, enchiladas…yum! It was the icing on the cake (literally) to the great characters, believable scenes and realistic plot (beyond the scoreboard proposal). Neither of them wants a full-on relationship disrupting their lives, but what if this could work? She’s not giving in to their demands, but Nik and Carlos become friends. But Nik’s friends have already started thinking what a great rebound Carlos would be for Nik. They help her to escape from the game and Nik insists on buying them a drink to say thank you. Fisher turns nasty at the word no and all cameras are on Nik, but she is rescued by Carlos and his sister Angela. The problem for Nik is that she doesn’t actually want to marry Fisher and they’ve only been dating for a few months anyway. The story opens with an interesting premise – getting proposed to at a baseball game on the big screen. I enjoyed it so much that I’ve since ordered everything else that Jasmine Guillory has written. Each novel can easily be read alone and I don’t think there was anything unexpected by reading The Proposal first. So the best thing to do was to read The Proposal, which is listed as the second in the series. Many, many people have recommended Jasmine Guillory’s The Wedding Date to me, but there were zero copies available to me locally. Why I chose it: Many, many recommendations from others The not-so-good: I cannot find any of Jasmine Guillory’s other books in the entire state. The good: It’s fun, fresh and involves lots of delicious food. When things turn nasty, she’s rescued by Carlos, who would be perfect for a rebound fling (according to her friends). In brief: Nik didn’t expect a proposal at a baseball game, nor did she want to marry her boyfriend.
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