Their relationship is largely predicated on mutual sexual interest while lacking the emotional closeness to withstand hard times.ĭrew does not respect women and, by extension, Alexa. However, Drew enters the relationship with a lot of unchecked privilege and Alexa often has to overextend herself to make their relationship work. Alexa is black and Drew is white and their interracial romance is often touted as a point of celebration. My issues with The Wedding Date are, frankly, many of the things the book is praised for. In the book’s sex scenes, consent is a normalized and openly communicated element that precedes every sexual act. Her sister and friends are also educated black people who are living out their professional dreams despite the many challenges they have faced both in the workplace and throughout their lives. Alexa is a curvy and professionally successful black woman that is passionate about the social programming she is able to facilitate through her job at the Berkeley mayor’s office. Let me start by talking about things this book does well. From there, well, we begin the cringey and painful path through this book. Cue mutual thirst and a couple of corny puns, and the two find themselves deeply in lust and, somehow, with Alexa having agreed to go with Drew to this wedding.

The two meet in a broken-down elevator while Alexa is en route to visit her sister in celebration of her sister’s recent ascent to partner at a New York City law firm, while Drew is begrudgingly in town for a wedding between his best friend and ex-girlfriend. The Wedding Date is a romance novel by Jasmine Guillory that chronicles the interracial, romantic relationship between the book’s protagonist and high-power lawyer, Alexa Monroe, and medical doctor, Drew Nichols.

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