Meri has caught the bouquet at her roommate's wedding. She is the last of her group of friends not yet married. Along with the bouquet came a list of ways to catch and keep a husband from a magazine published in the 1950s. Immediately after the wedding, Meri has to move out of her digs and in with her brother who is going to Ecuador for three months. Living in her brother's apartment are his college buddy, Kai, who desires to be a camera-man in making films, and a wanna-be screenwriter, Gemma.
Kai is intrigued by the list and wants to film Meri going through the steps. These ideas make for some entertaining reading. The Husband Auditions takes place in Portland, Oregon, which is a city that is familiar to me and when certain streets are mentioned I can picture them in my mind, which made the book more interesting to me.
While Angela Ruth Strong has used some of the romance formula, where boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl, but the denouement isn't quite where boy gets girl back. It is a very satisfying conclusion to the book and leaves room for the imagination to bring Meri and Kai back together.
This is a five star book, with two thumbs up, and a pint of your favorite ice cream.
Kregel Publications and NetGalley.com provided the copy I read for this review. All opinions expressed are solely my own.
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