Review / Release Blitz: The Un-Arranged Marriage by Laura Brown

The Un-Arranged Marriage by Laura Brown is live!

Their mothers are the worst matchmakers…

Mark Goldman has never gotten along with Shaina Fogel. Ever. Even when they were in diapers, their bestie mothers wanted them to grow up and get married. Not happening. Mark prefers his quiet, reserved life. But a family wedding is about to change everything Mark thought he knew about his archnemesis.

A week of wedding events with Mark Goldman? Shaina would rather have a week of root canals. Maybe the guy is hot, but for their entire lives, he's never once acknowledged the fact that she's hard of hearing. So it comes as a massive surprise when she discovers that Mr. High-and-Mighty and Annoyingly Sexy simply didn't know. And now she needs his help.

When it's revealed that the weeklong wedding events are actually a weeklong competition—for a dream vacation—Mark and Shaina do the unthinkable: work together. And the second the animosity begins to fade, something even more electric takes its place. Only now it's not just an attraction between enemies. And nothing could be worse than the fact that their mothers might have had it right…

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MY REVIEW

When enemies Shaina and Mark are forced into sharing a car ride to a family wedding, revelations come out, and Mark's world is shaken to its core. All these years that they've known each other since they were children and he had no idea why Shaina didn't like him. Well, now he knows and it's about to throw this introvert for a loop. Is it possible there could be more than feelings of contempt between them, especially now that the cause of all that negativity has been rooted out?

This is a very, uh, heartwarming? Wholesome? Kind of read. I wanted a bit more heat, but I liked the storyline itself. There are two different kinds of representation, Mark's demisexuality and Shaina's hearing disability here. I like how each was handled, with sensitivity and authentic feelings. So why 3.5 stars and not 4 or 5? Well for one, I have a hard time with the big revelation in that if Shaina had this hearing disability her whole life and their two families are practically tied at the hip, there's no way Mark wouldn't have known at some point that she had that disability. And finally, the moms drove me nuts, they were over the top obnoxious, meddling and felt soap operaish. Aside from those two things, though, I liked this story. Shaina and Mark were cute together and their sorta enemies vibe made for entertaining reading.

Meet Laura Brown

After spending her childhood coming up with new episodes to her favorite sitcoms instead of sleeping, Laura Brown decided to try her hand at writing and never looked back. A hopeless romantic, she married her high school sweetheart, though they didn’t even go to the same high school! They live in Massachusetts with two cats with cerebellar hypoplasia, and an energetic kid who keeps them on their toes. Laura’s been hard of hearing her entire life but didn’t start learning ASL until college, when her disability morphed from an inconvenience to a positive part of her identity. It’s important to her to create strong, competent characters with hearing loss, as she didn’t have that growing up. At home the closed captioning is always on, lights flash with the doorbell, and hearing aids are sometimes optional.

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