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I wanted to like this book. However, it was a big disappointment. I don't know where the author was hoping to go with the story. If this was supposed to be a romantic comedy, it fell flat. There's really no romance or romantic tension. The romance comes twenty chapters into the book!
There are parts of the story that are funny and sweet. Kristan Higgans writes books with wacky families, quirky friends, and a cute dog or two. This book is the same way, but the heroine was so wishy-washy, and lacking a backbone where her family was concerned, that I got fed up with reading about her. She's a complete doormat. I had several moments where I wanted to slap her in the face because she was being such a martyr. She never stood up for herself during multiple situations where she had every right to assert herself. Grace, the heroine, was so lacking in authenticity especially her slavish devotion to her younger sister who is going to marry Grace's ex-fiancee. The fiancee dumped Grace for her cute, blonde sister three weeks before the wedding, but Grace carries on like it was nothing even though it was enormously painful. Making up a fake boyfriend so that her younger sister could feel good about marrying the man you were going to marry seemed so preposterous and juvenile.
The hero is ok, but there isn't any sexual tension between the heroine and hero. Also, the author made him totally overreact in one scene which seemed so out of character for him that it was hard to get past that manufactured tension. It wasn't believable that his character would behave that way.
Personally, I wouldn't waste a credit on this book. This isn't one of Kristan Higgins's best efforts.
There are parts of the story that are funny and sweet. Kristan Higgans writes books with wacky families, quirky friends, and a cute dog or two. This book is the same way, but the heroine was so wishy-washy, and lacking a backbone where her family was concerned, that I got fed up with reading about her. She's a complete doormat. I had several moments where I wanted to slap her in the face because she was being such a martyr. She never stood up for herself during multiple situations where she had every right to assert herself. Grace, the heroine, was so lacking in authenticity especially her slavish devotion to her younger sister who is going to marry Grace's ex-fiancee. The fiancee dumped Grace for her cute, blonde sister three weeks before the wedding, but Grace carries on like it was nothing even though it was enormously painful. Making up a fake boyfriend so that her younger sister could feel good about marrying the man you were going to marry seemed so preposterous and juvenile.
The hero is ok, but there isn't any sexual tension between the heroine and hero. Also, the author made him totally overreact in one scene which seemed so out of character for him that it was hard to get past that manufactured tension. It wasn't believable that his character would behave that way.
Personally, I wouldn't waste a credit on this book. This isn't one of Kristan Higgins's best efforts.
