jack and hallie kept using the excuse ‘oh we slept together so that’s probably why we’re attracted to each other, it’s in our biology’ to excuse their obsessive and unnecessary behaviour towards each other. There’s also a speed-dating event in this as well, that gives plenty of opportunities for laughs and awkward getting-to-know-people moments. When the time comes for Hallie to fly to Vail for her sisters wedding she knows she needs to find a plus one since her ex-boyfriend is in the wedding party too. hallie piper (oof) is a not-like-other-girls lab-created disaster whose only two personality traits are having red hair and getting on my nerves. After a one night stand, Hallie and Jack decide they're better off friends and make a wager on who will find true love first.

Wrong Number or reading this as a standalone story, it makes no difference, as the author does a fantastic job cementing these characters in their own arc fully. For Hallie, drunkenly hooking up with a stranger in the middle of her shift is rock bottom, but Jack turns out to be a kind and supportive confidant. Well in this second book in the series, it’s her brother Jack’s turn to find love, and once again, fate may have something to say!

And Jack is such a GUY - yes he’s sweet and falling in love and struggling with that, but he could be a bit of a jerk. As I mentioned, I loved Jack and Hallie's witty banter and the thoughts/observations running through their minds.

jack marshall (i finally remembered his last name) was one of the worst mmcs i’ve ever had the experience to read about. In this fictional hellscape are people going around with their college transcripts and IQ score stapled to their forehead?Whenever I read books where the characters are dating via apps, I am always like ‘well if anything happens and I end up no longer married, I will just die alone’. i hope my pain and suffering brought you some sort of humour, i’ll be here all evening tearing this book to shreds. That delightful one revolved around Olivia Marshall finding love after she texted a wrong number and fate intervened. Though Jack doesn’t feel quite as fleshed out as potty-mouthed spark plug Hallie, their equally filthy sense of humor makes their connection feel real and their game of constant one-upmanship is a lot of fun.

wrong number) had been the one to get jack on the dating app in hopes he could potentially find somebody to love and every time olivia checked in with jack– it pissed him off.it was clear from the get-go that hallie and jack were not comfortable with them dating other people, so WHY did they keep doing it ? regardless, this was immediately girl hatey, in an insane, like, 2000s level, toward not one but two women! the love wager was by far the worst book i have read in 2023 and i will live by that statement until i die– i would highly recommend staying the HELL away from this book (and if you truly want to endure a lifetime of pain and suffering, get a copy from the library.

Wrong Number) provides the perfect rom-com escape in The Love Wager, a trope-driven romance that will remind readers, as they laugh themselves to tears, why they love the genre.definitely begins to blur the lines and the effortless chemistry from their one night together resurfaces (or can no longer be ignored). Because as they pretend to be a couple, they struggle to remember why dating for real was a bad idea to begin with. he’s a terrible significant other, unbearably immature, and manipulates to get exactly what he wants, it is exhausting.