Weddings with the Moks – Cannonball Read 17

My second marriage pact romance in less than a month

Two Friends in Marriage by Jackie Lau

March 2, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

Disclaimer! This was an ARC sent to me by the author. My opinions are my own. During the Covid pandemic, it becomes very obvious to both Evan Mok and his friend Jane Yin how lonely they both are and how much they wish they had someone to share their lives with. They agree that if they are both still single after Jane’s thirty-third birthday, they will get married and buy a house together. By the time Jane’s birthday has passed, neither of them is in a […]

Queer Marriage of Convenience Lau-Style

Two Friends in Marriage by Jackie Lau

February 14, 2025 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Two Friends in Marriage is the third book in Jackie Lau’s Weddings with the Moks series. I read the first two last year, enjoying Four Weddings to Fall in Love well enough and found the second book Three Reasons to Run to fall into the best of Lau’s writing. Unfortunately for me the third book had some issues that kept me from loving it in execution as much as I loved it in theory. Lau is interested in telling stories about characters with diverse sexual […]

Runaway bride

Three Reasons to Run by Jackie Lau

September 21, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Smart Bitches Summer Bingo: Free space Disclaimer! This was an ARC from the author, it has not affected my review in any way. Leo Mok (younger brother of Max, from Four Weddings to Fall in Love) is late for his cousin Carl’s wedding because he got a speeding ticket. He’s not exactly thrilled to be going, since he’s had a crush on the bride since he first saw her at a family gathering two years ago. He’s about to leave his car when […]

It’s like I’m in free fall. I’m relieved, I’m happy, I’m distressed, all at once. It averages out to “okay,” though.

Three Reasons to Run by Jackie Lau

August 27, 2024 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I love a Jackie Lau novel that gets into the conflict between family expectations and living an authentic life. Lau has given Yvonne and Leo rich interior lives that they slowly reveal to one another. Yvonne is finding out who she is when she isn’t being the good girl. Leo doesn’t share much of himself, but he will for Yvonne. At the end of Four Weddings to Fall in Love, Kim sees Max’s mom, Lynne, help Yvonne flee her wedding. Lynne’s kindness and practical support […]

A fun runaway bride romance

Three Reasons to Run by Jackie Lau

August 4, 2024 by LB Leave a Comment

I love how much food is central to Jackie Lau books and how I’m basically guaranteed to find something fun and lighthearted in her stories. The whole premise of Three Reasons to Run sounded like it would be a delight, and I’m so glad I got to read it! Yvonne has been in a relationship with Carl for five years, engaged for two, and in that time she’s slowly been realizing that it wasn’t a relationship that fulfilled her or she could see a positive […]

Yvonne Names Three Reasons, But There’s More

Three Reasons To Run (Weddings with the Moks #2) by Jackie Lau

July 31, 2024 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Oh yes, this is what I’m looking for in a Jackie Lau book. When I received my ARC copy of Three Reasons to Run, I immediately picked up a copy of the first in the series, Four Weddings to Fall in Love to introduce me to the world that Lau would be working in within her larger Toronto-verse. While it was an enjoyable read, it wasn’t the strongest Lau. But I shouldn’t have worried, Three Reasons to Run is a crisp, warm, emotionally resonant book […]

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