Something Borrowed

Confetti Hitched, Book 2

By: Lily Morton

Narrated by: Joel Leslie

Stan has never let his blindness hold him back, but he’s beginning to realise his love life is keeping him from moving forward.

He can’t remember a time when he wasn’t in love with his best friend. Rafferty is everything to him—his partner in crime, his confidante, and the person who understands him best. But Rafferty is incapable of reciprocating Stan’s feelings.

As a successful wedding planner, Rafferty is passionately committed to helping newlyweds begin their happily-ever-afters, but after a rootless childhood he’s equally determined not to seek his own. How can he trust in love and marriage when so many of his brides and grooms are repeat customers?

Stan is the glue that keeps the pieces of Rafferty’s life together, and as such Rafferty has always kept Stan safely in the friend box where he can’t lose him. However, lately that conviction has wavered and now Rafferty is bursting with complicated feelings for his best friend. The timing couldn’t be worse because Rafferty has realised he’s in love with Stan just as Stan is moving on.

From bestselling author Lily Morton comes a friends-to-lovers story about realising you have the perfect man when you’re on the brink of losing him.

This is the second book in the bestselling Confetti Hitched series, but it can be listened to as a standalone.

©2024 Lily Morton (P)2024 Lily Morton

😍😍😍

😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 There are no words to explain how much I love Lily’s books! I just want to snuggle all her characters!

Something Borrowed

Lily Morton is one of my favorite authors, but this book was a let down. I had a hard time getting into it. It was too much snark and recycled material in the beginning . If you can get past the first hour or so it is a sweet story. Narration was excellent.

Great story

Witty, charming, at times you want to ring someone's neck...but a great story. I did get the audiobook and will be reviewing that as well. 

STORY: 4 Stars
I loved Rafferty and Stan, but seriously, there were several moments when I wanted to knock their heads together. My sister laughed at me when I yelled at my kindle a few times and thought I was talking to a friend. But alas, I was not. I was yelling at these two best friends who are hopelessly in love with each other and won't admit it to each other. LOL. As you can tell, the characters are great and bring out a reaction in you that is over the top. The story was good too, but the characters are what really got to me. 

NARRATION: 5 Stars
I absolutely love Joel Leslie. He has a way of given a unique voice to each character, and this story was no different. He takes the story to the next level and brings the characters to life. 

OVERALL: 4.5 Stars
The story was good, and I loved turning page after page. When I got the audiobook, it was even better because the characters are over the top and even more loveable. Overall 4.5 stars. 

Oh so good

This story was amazing🥰😍 It broke my heart just a smidge because of our MCs cluelessness but these two are there for each other in every way. They almost messed it up but they earned their HEA. And Joel Leslie did a phenomenal job bringing them to life.

Another hit by Lily Morton

Stan and Rafferty are friends, with a history of on again - off again benefits. They cruise along,, each not quite happy with the others dating and hook-ups, but not ready to look to one another for anything more. they can’t see what everyone else does, and that takes the story in expected and unexpected places.
The only thing wrong with this book is that the next one isn’t here yet.

Raff & Stan

Raff is a wedding planner and is in love with his best friend Stan, whom is blind and a record shop owner. They get along so well and know each other so perfectly. But miss the fact that the other person loves them too.

This story is sweet and funny. I loved it!

The audio is just as perfect, the narrator did an awesome job.

Entertaining...

4 Stars

I loved Rafferty and Stan to bits, but they were really frustrating! I wanted to knock some sense into them for most of the book. I got where they were coming from, but really, the miscommunication between them dragged endlessly and the whole thing with Bennett, Stan's boyfriend, made me want to scream. 

It wasn't all bad, though, Stan and Rafferty had lots of chemistry and were definitely hot together and I adored their friendship/relationship, even if we got to see most of it through flashbacks. I think Ms. Morton dealt with Stan's blindness in a very sensitive manner and I loved that all their friends and family were more aware of Stan and Rafferty's feelings than they were. 

Even if the read was frustrating at times, I was invested in Raff and Stan getting their HEA, and I was fairly happy with how it all got resolved (even if Bennett didn't deserve that ending). 

The narration was pretty good, Joel Leslie did a great job with most of the characters, and although it wasn't my favorite of the books he's performed, it was still enjoyable, so I have no problem recommending it.

Raf & Stan

I have to round this one up from 3.5. That was with help from the audiobook. I absolutely loved Joel Leslie's performance as always. The story itself wasn't one of my favorites, unfortunately. There were a few things throughout that didn't work well in the story for me. I still appreciated Raf and Stan's happily ever after.

I received an ARC and this is my unbiased opinion

So Beautiful and Sweet!

Best friends to lovers is my all time favorite trope! I absolutely loved the first book in this series and this one was equally as amazing! Raff doesn’t want a relationship and Stan has been in love with his best friend forever. Their relationship is so close, everyone around them can see they belong together…except them. This story was sweet and funny and I love the banter! Joel Leslie did an amazing job!