jjbaby72's review against another edition
3.0
Cute and fluffy... a welcome change between all the murder and intrigue I’ve been reading lately.
gettinglostinagoodbook's review
4.0
Faced with a dress she doesn't love, a honeymoon she doesn't want to take, a pre-nup she doesn't want to sign and a set of in-laws who make her very uncomfortable Kate struggles to do the right thing and keep the man she loves happy. However, feeling ever more distant from him this becomes more and more difficult. When he leaves her stranded at dinner for an "important" work call Kate finds herself tempted by another man.
Questioning herself and her relationship Kate rushes home to speak to Ted about her feelings, only to find that the man she met was sent to "tempt" her. Embarrassed, angry and done with her relationship Kate flees to the water and begins a new life.
Enter, or re-enter, Nick, the P.I. who was sent to test her fidelity. What follows is a heartwarming story of love and discovery. Not only does Kate discover where she truly belongs but so do Nick and Ted. Love will conquer - if it is true love.
Questioning herself and her relationship Kate rushes home to speak to Ted about her feelings, only to find that the man she met was sent to "tempt" her. Embarrassed, angry and done with her relationship Kate flees to the water and begins a new life.
Enter, or re-enter, Nick, the P.I. who was sent to test her fidelity. What follows is a heartwarming story of love and discovery. Not only does Kate discover where she truly belongs but so do Nick and Ted. Love will conquer - if it is true love.
jjv84's review
3.0
This was a great light read and was a book definitely filled with a lot of romance. I was able to finish this book in just over 24 hours due to the shortness of the book (Kindle 150 pages). I liked the part about the wedding jitters, when Kate overhears that the grooms father had hired a private investigator to see if Kate would betray Edward and how she runs off and disappears without contacting anyone. The story is focused on Kate, you don't hear much about what is going on back home while she is missing, even though she really isn't missing.
Having Nick come into Kate's life due to business but turning into romance had my heart melting. This is one of those types of books that fills your heart with the hope of a knight in shining armour. And I think that is why I could read it so quickly because it had pulled at my heart strings and all through the book I dreamt about having a happily ever after for myself.
Having Nick come into Kate's life due to business but turning into romance had my heart melting. This is one of those types of books that fills your heart with the hope of a knight in shining armour. And I think that is why I could read it so quickly because it had pulled at my heart strings and all through the book I dreamt about having a happily ever after for myself.
bananatricky's review
3.0
The concept was just too laughable to be plausible.
Kate is engaged to be married to Edward Carnarvon III. he is from a wealthy family. So is she, but somehow her mother has all the money and Kate is living off her earnings. Kate is all things wonderful, she is a poorly-paid fund-raiser for a charity for (for want of a better phrase) wayward girls. She is a person who wants to please others, her domineering social-climbing mother, her indifferent and snobbish fiancé, her superior in-laws to-be, her friends and colleagues. As a result she is wearing a designer wedding dress which cost more than the money she requires for a year's fund-raising at her charity (not that Edward or her mother would care about that). At her dress fitting one of the dress-makers accidently stabs Kate and gets blood on the dress. The bitchy dress designer sacks her on the spot - so she curses the dress. Yep, not the woman who sacked her, but the dress.
That evening Kate and Edward go to dinner. He is distant and dismissive, then leaves abruptly after the first course. A random stranger who was sitting at the bar sits down in Edward's seat and proceeds to charm and try to seduce Kate. When she finally gets away, she goes to Edward's house (well his parent's pool house where he lives) to talk to him, only to find that Edward and his family, not content with just having a pre-nup have set a private detective on Kate to try to tempt her to cheat.
Enraged, she breaks off the engagement and runs away from Edward, his family and her mother (who knew all about it). Of course the PI finds her and they admit they have feelings for each other.
That's it! There is also a clichéd sub-plot about Edward actually liking a very different kind of woman but really, there is nothing else.
Kate is engaged to be married to Edward Carnarvon III. he is from a wealthy family. So is she, but somehow her mother has all the money and Kate is living off her earnings. Kate is all things wonderful, she is a poorly-paid fund-raiser for a charity for (for want of a better phrase) wayward girls. She is a person who wants to please others, her domineering social-climbing mother, her indifferent and snobbish fiancé, her superior in-laws to-be, her friends and colleagues. As a result she is wearing a designer wedding dress which cost more than the money she requires for a year's fund-raising at her charity (not that Edward or her mother would care about that). At her dress fitting one of the dress-makers accidently stabs Kate and gets blood on the dress. The bitchy dress designer sacks her on the spot - so she curses the dress. Yep, not the woman who sacked her, but the dress.
That evening Kate and Edward go to dinner. He is distant and dismissive, then leaves abruptly after the first course. A random stranger who was sitting at the bar sits down in Edward's seat and proceeds to charm and try to seduce Kate. When she finally gets away, she goes to Edward's house (well his parent's pool house where he lives) to talk to him, only to find that Edward and his family, not content with just having a pre-nup have set a private detective on Kate to try to tempt her to cheat.
Enraged, she breaks off the engagement and runs away from Edward, his family and her mother (who knew all about it). Of course the PI finds her and they admit they have feelings for each other.
That's it! There is also a clichéd sub-plot about Edward actually liking a very different kind of woman but really, there is nothing else.
anatl's review
4.0
A charming little book with likable heroes, a society girl who realizes she is making a mistake and takes charge of her life.
magickislife's review
5.0
This was a fun book, sad about the broken wedding because that is always sad but it was sweet how they got to working things out and a nice love story.
joannecatherine's review
3.0
Not bad... Not particularly great either, but an okay (sort of trashy) novel to escape into for a day (because it's such a ridiculously quick read) and avoid responsibilities with.
emilylouisef's review
3.0
A very cute quick read. I really enjoyed this book, it wasn't ridiculously overdramatic and it wasn't stupidly slow. It was a lovely pace and I didn't want to put it down. It was a good storyline that intrigued me to read it and I'm glad I did.
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