If I could rate the stories separately, I'd give Marriage Wanted 3 stars and My Hero 1.5 and call it a day. Alas, this is a two-fer which means I met somewhere in the middle and the book gets 2 stars.
Marriage Wanted is by far the better story but part of that feeling may be due to wanting to slam my head into the table as I read My Hero. Savannah and Nash are both given time to shine and while Savannah's habit of instantly assuming that Nash could never, ever see her as a woman he'd want to date grates on the nerves something awful, it is kind of understandable given her past. On the other hand, it does make you wonder how many times she cut herself out of the romantic running rather than the faceless/nameless possibilities in the past. Still, I think I'd like to spend more time around Savannah's shop and Nash gets to step up in the second half of their story once Savannah loses her damn mind and just assumes the absolute worst of everything. It's weirdly set up but Nash calls her on it, though that still doesn't really make it better? Almost everything bad after they agree to marry could have been avoided if they'd just friggin' talked to one another and that's a trope I despise.
Still, I liked both characters and wouldn't mind seeing more of them.
My Hero - if you wanted to kill your liver in no time flat, take a shot every time the word hero shows up during this story (not including the title page). You'll be dead in no time. Sometimes it makes sense but often it's just... really? Who talks like that? Parker (I had to think far too long to remember his name given I just finished the book today) is bland and forgettable. I couldn't tell you anything about him other than he's an architect, wanted to marry a girl named Maria from Spain who broke his heart, and for some reason loves Bailey, our heroine. Don't know why, don't think he knows either. He acts like a jerk when she dances with another guy at a concert, but he was also very clearly not going to dance with her and also was swept away in the crowd. For a moment I thought he was recreating a scene from Bailey's novel on purpose but no. And other than Bailey having two failed engagements under her belt and a slightly used wedding dress in her closet, I couldn't tell you much about her either.
Mostly this felt like a partial idea sent out into the world unfinished. I liked Jo Ann (did I spell her name correctly?) because it felt like there was more to her story at one point and I liked Max the cat. Otherwise, eh. Probably didn't help that every time Bailey talked about Parker acting like a hero should, my eyes nearly rolled clear out of my skull.