They’re ultimately very cute and very dorky together. Theo and Maddie never really deeply hate each other, and they do get to talk out the personality faults and insecurities that caused their negative impressions of each other.
How much you love Theo and Maddie’s relationship will depend on how much you like love/hate tropery the book has this in spades, and while normally these kinds of relationships don’t work for me, Guillory’s work sold it completely.
I liked the way they eventually came to friendship, then love – with lust, naturally, being the first emotion coupled with hate that faced them.
Maddie and Theo are flawed people who act like real human beings – stubborn, loving, soft, giving and tough and stubborn as two cats dueling over a piece of tuna. The Wedding Party is charming in a perfectly relentless way, an incredibly human one. They should be thrilled, shouldn’t they? But a violent act changes everything, making them reconsider the strength of their bond and their own happily ever after. But then Alexa moves the date up when she scores her dream venue, leaving Maddie and Theo with only months to continue hooking up. They try to limit the course of the affair, deciding to conclude it when the wedding is over. Vowing never to tell Alexa about their peccadilloes, the more time they spend together, the harder it is to suppress the truth and the sparks flying between them. And have continued to make that mistake repeatedly since that night, in multiple beds and on multiple surfaces whenever they’ve met again. On the same night Alexa met her Mister Right, Theo and Maddie also had a one night stand they immediately regarded as a huge mistake. There’s one very big reason Theo and Maddie don’t get along. Theo and Maddie are naturally part of the wedding party which means – for better or for worse – the two of them have months of events, dinners and parties to deal with in tandem. But they have one person near and dear to them in common – Alexa (last seen in The Wedding Date), who is their shared best friend and is about to be married. Nerdy, sometimes-smug and opinionated Theo can’t take what he interprets as Maddie’s celebrity-obsessed shallowness seriously. Maddie, outspoken yet homebodyish, can’t stand his snobbishness, the way he looks down on her job and past experiences. No two ways about it – personal stylist Maddie Forest and mayoral press secretary Theo Stephens loathe one another. The Wedding Party is another slice in that tradition romantic, funny, sweet and easy to relate to, it’s a breezy read that will be like catnip for anyone who likes a good enemies-to-lovers story.
Any Jasmine Guillory novel is guaranteed to be a good time.
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