Book Review: My Best Friend’s Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press,  April 29, 2025

Format: ebook

Pages: 304

Rating: 3.5/5 stars

Summary (From Goodreads):

Meryl Wilsner’s spicy f/nb romance, where two lifelong best friends go on a nonrefundable honeymoon together and discover sometimes to find a happily ever after, you just have to ask.

Elsie Hoffman has been engaged to her college boyfriend for a year and a half. Ginny Holtz has been in love with Elsie for almost a decade and a half.

When Elsie discovers her fiancé already planned their wedding and honeymoon as a surprise and she’s expected to be in a white dress in seven days, she swiftly realizes she’s let herself become too comfortable with a future she never wanted. She breaks things off, and a week later is on a plane to the Caribbean for her non-refundable honeymoon with her best friend Ginny instead.

Ginny thinks it’s high time Elsie learned how to speak up for herself. So, they make a deal with her. For the next week, Elsie can have whatever she wants, wherever, however, and whenever she wants it, as long as she asks. They never expected Elsie to want them.

What starts as choosing activities and taking selfies soon turns to toe-curling kisses and much, much more. But what happens when the honeymoon is over?

Meryl Wilsner’s My Best Friend’s Honeymoon is about not only learning to ask for what you want, but for the happiness you deserve.

My Review:

Thank you St. Martin’s Press for the copy of this book.

Read if you like: friends to lovers

When Elsie breaks off her engagement, she takes her best friend Ginny on her honeymoon, where they hook up and realize they have had feelings for each other all along.

This was a cute friends to lovers story, but it was missing some of the tension and yearning that I love to see in a friends to lovers story, and would have liked to have seen more of this. I didn’t love Elsie as much as I wanted too, but I did like Ginny!

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