Book Review: Til Summer Do Us Part by Meghan Quinn
Till Summer Do Us Part by Meghan Quinn
Publisher: Bloom Books
Publication date: June 3, 2025
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Publisher’s Description:
Scottie Price just started a new job, and it’s a real sausage fest. She’s the only woman on a team filled with Brads and Chads. Expecting a bachelor pad atmosphere, she is quickly corrected when she finds out everyone is happily married.
In an effort to impress her boss, Scottie mentions her nonexistent husband in a company meeting. But eagle-eyed Chad points out her lack of wedding ring. Panicked, Scottie creates a story about her unhappy marriage. Unfortunately for Scottie, her boss has a solution―a one-on-one session with the best marriage counselor in the Northeast, who happens to be her boss’s husband.
With no way out of her lie, Scottie agrees to see him. Frantic, she calls in help from her best friend who sets her up with his brother, an improv-obsessed millionaire.
Enter Wilder Wells. More than happy to take on the job, he teaches Scottie the main rule of improv: always say yes. But the rule backfires during the session when Wilder signs them up for an eight-day summer marriage camp with all of Scottie’s co-workers where she’ll have to share a cabin with her way-too-handsome fake husband.
Til Summer Do Us Part is Meghan Quinn’s latest book. Scottie feels left out as the only unmarried person in her office. To make it worse, she works with all men and they’re all kind of douchey. In a meeting where the talk turns to marriage, she lies and says that she’s married too. She didn’t mean to; it just slipped out. Her boss is married to a marriage counselor, and she insists that Scottie and her husband join everyone else at a weeklong couple’s retreat. Scottie needs to find a husband and fast.
Enter her best friend Mika’s little brother Wilder. Even though he’s only in his twenties, he’s retired after selling the app he developed for millions of dollars. He’s bored and looking for something to do. When Mika asks him to be Scottie’ s fake husband and go on the retreat, he jumps at the chance. He’s taking an improv class, and this will be the perfect chance to practice.
Predictably, Scottie and Wilder don’t get along at first. She’s a little up-tight and worried about embarrassing herself in from of her coworkers and Wilder takes his improvisation a little too far. This lead to hilarious banter between the two of them. I had tears streaming down my face from laughing so hard.
Fake dating/marriage and grumpy/sunshine are my favorite tropes, and Meghan Quinn has written them perfectly in Til Summer Do Us Part. She is the queen of banter, and I can’t wait to read more by her. This is my fifth of her over 75 books, so I have a lot of Meghan Quinn ahead of me to enjoy.
