This RITA® Reader Challenge 2015 review was written by Amanda from Smart Bitches. This story was nominated for the RITA® in the Romance Novella category.

Here is Amanda from Smart Bitches's review:

“Will You Be My Wi-Fi” by Caroline Linden is one of four stories in the At the Billionaire’s Wedding anthology ( A | BN | K | G | AB | Scribd ), though you can now get the story on its own. In the anthology, all four novellas take place (obviously) at a billionaire’s wedding. The characters to be wed—though they aren’t super important aside from facilitating the location where all these stories take place—are Silicon Valley tech billionaire Duke Austen, and romance novelist Jane Sparks.

So that means if Jane takes her husband’s last name, she’d then be Jane Austen. Their wedding location is also a small castle in England. And some of the titles of Jane’s romances are awfully familiar. The Wicked Wallflower, ring any bells?

These things didn’t help set the tone for me. It all felt a little too over-the-top and cheesy, so before the hero and heroine even meet, this romance was at a disadvantage.

However, Linded saved it. The hero is corporate lawyer, Archer Quinn. He’s only going to the wedding on account of business. Duke is his client and Archer’s boss hopes that by attending, he’ll wrangle some more business for the firm. Natalie Corcoran is in hiding, partly. She dumped a bowl of soup on her brother at her family’s restaurant after hearing he planned on turning the place into a franchise. Nursing her pride, she borrowed a friend’s cottage in the English countryside to decompress and work on a cookbook. She mainly works on desserts throughout the novella, so I do not recommend reading while hungry.

As Archer hopes to still get some business down while he’s away, he’s dismayed to learn that the hotel is having internet troubles. Anyone hoping to get a cell signal or any data signal must trek up a hill and deal with the rest of the wedding’s obnoxious guests who are also trying to desperately use their phones and other electronic devices. Archer gets a faint wi-fi signal and follows it to Natalie’s cottage. They strike up a deal that he can use her internet, but he must stay on the porch. He also must act as a food taster from time to time, should Natalie need an opinion.

Match made in heaven.

Overall, Natalie and Archer are sweet and the complement each other well. They both have issues with their family, which are fleshed out rather well given the length constraints of a novella. At times, I did feel a bit of feels whiplash between the two characters. They go from professing their interest in one another, then Archer drops the L-word, Natalie freaks out the morning after, there’s some sexytime in the kitchen, then all is well.

My usual complaint with novellas is that the author should have turned the story into a full novel because everything felt rushed or never fully fleshed out. However, “Will You Be My Wi-Fi” never had any pacing issues. I would have loved a little epilogue on what happened with Archer and Natalie post-wedding; they both reside in Massachusetts. But these two were so adorable that I’m sure they’ll get their full HEA in Romancelandia.