title: How to Find a Guy in Five Weddings
author: Cynthia Timoti
publisher: Branble
publication date: May 12, 2026
pages: 320
peppers: 2.5 (on this scale)
warnings:
- grandparental death (past) and illness/hospitalization (present)
- cheating fiancé
- controlling parents
summary: Kim, who's had no luck at all with online dating, needs to find a significant other to meet the stipulation in her grandmother's will to inherit her grandmother's yarn store. Rob, who's a friend of a friend with lots of weddings to attend and an ex her doesn't want to appear alone near, volunteers to trade his matchmaking services for Kim's serving as his plus one to all of the weddings.
tropes:
- matchmaking
- absentee parents
- big family-only child
- big company-small business
- saving the family legacy
- I don't even believe in love
what I liked:
- the weddings
- Rob's family
- Rob is a truly good human
- They see each other's flaws and fall anyway
what I didn’t like:
- both main characters' fathers seem unbelievably bad
- I didn't entirely believe her arc from "I don't think love exists" to "I'm totally in love with him"
overall rating: 3 (of 5 stars)
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