Bride Games
Beth Carter
Contemporary Romance
I wanted a dream wedding, not a nightmare.
Single mom Emma Miller is finally going to have a chance at happily ever after with the man of her dreams. At thirty, she’s swept away by her daughter’s former kindergarten teacher—Mr. Handsome, er, Mr. Hansen. But her idyllic wedding day isn’t supposed to start, nor end like this. Who objects to a wedding? People really do that? Apparently. The bride and groom choose a charming venue that couldn’t be more perfect, but a showdown on her wedding day is the last thing Emma expects. How did this go from being the best day of her life to possibly the worst?
After a spectacular rise to fame and a shocking fall to defeat, Paige Daniels, a TV star who is best known as a popular sideline sports reporter—a job she expected to hate—races to get her career and love life back on track after social media trolls stage an online smear campaign. Who would do this? She has a probable list, but the suspects keep changing. Meanwhile, a gorgeous sportscaster is clearly after her job—and her boyfriend. But is someone playing checkers while Paige plays chess?
Will best friends Emma and Paige ever find happiness? And why do people keep playing games with their lives?
Uncaged Review: Paige and Emma are back, and this one is a heck of a doozy. This started a tad slow for me, with a bunch of wedding planning and decisions and some mundane relationship stuff with Paige and Zach, but it found it’s groove after I got about a third of the way through. As for Emma and Lucy, Eli proposes in a most original way and then it’s full on stress mode for Emma. Paige on the other hand is facing a smear campaign against her, and is pulled off the air for awhile until it dies down all while her new relationship with Zach is getting some curve balls thrown at them so early on. Our favorite characters are back, including wedding dress shop owner, English Nigel and a couple more we’d like to throw under the bus.
There is humor, a clean romance, a crazy almost in-law and a lot of other shenanigans going on with this one. There is also some very heartwarming moments that will make the reader smile. And the beloved Coconuts is still the place to eat. But that wedding. Wow, the wedding that is both one helluva lot of fun and original. I bet readers won’t read that often. Reviewed by Cyrene
4.5 Stars
