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Kieran Quinn is a Texas native transplanted to Manhattan who is working as a columnist for a national magazine. He’s famous for his snarky, sardonic columns, but deep down he’s more interested in what makes people ti… More >>
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Kieran Quinn is a Texas native transplanted to Manhattan who is working as a columnist for a national magazine. He’s famous for his snarky, sardonic columns, but deep down he’s more interested in what makes people ti… More >>
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Kieran Quinn enjoys life as a snippy, sarcastic and irreverent columnist for chic magazine Gloss. Yet, after writing his last piece with a less than sarcastic slant and getting it turned around by his editor, Kieran begins to feel the inklings of dissatisfaction with his job. However, this job is comfortable and Kieran gets paid really well for the privilege. So, while hunting for material for his next column Kiernan stumbles across a real-life version of the “Run Away Bride” and decides that this just might be the type of story to bring him back to his sarcastic and irreverent best. However, Kieran didn’t count on the effect Jaxon, the prospective groom, would have on him or the secrets that he would uncover while researching the bride’s past wedding failures…
Sex, Lies and Wedding Bells is a long tale about honesty, love and growing up. Kieran is your typical conceited gay man that only has time for superficial encounters that end before the sun rises, while Jaxon is a man of earnest emotion that while content with his life nonetheless feels trapped by the path his life has taken. Most of the book of is spent investigating the bride’s suspicious past and dancing around the undercurrents of attraction between Kieran and Jaxon, the supposed straight groom. Also, the plot, as a whole, was rather simplistic and boilerplate with few surprises and full of two dimensional characters. The “climax” of the story was also rather rushed and almost unnoticeable amidst of the blossoming “relationship” between Kieran and Jaxon leaving the remaining of the book feeling either unnecessary when related to what had gone before or becoming the real action in the predictable romance plot. Sex, Lies and Wedding Bells is an unoriginal romance, but if you don’t mind the lack of surprise in the plot or outcome it can serve as entertainment on a long day.
Sabella
Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed
Rating: 4 / 5
This was somewhat predictable and was not as interesting as I thought it would be.
Rating: 3 / 5
I can’t remember ever reading a book with so many typos. Missing words, double words, repeating sentences, alphabet soup words…how did this book ever make it into print? The print errors are so numerous and distracting that I lost interest in the lame & predictable story. I need more than just a witty line here and there. The characters are superficial and the plot line is just plain stupid.
Rating: 1 / 5
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.
Rating: 6/10
PROS:
- There’s more intrigue to the story than I expected. I thought it would be a pretty simple “soul mates meet but one of them thinks he’s straight” sort of story with very little plot other than Kieran’s quest to convince Jaxon that they’re meant to be together. But there’s an interesting additional element in the mystery surrounding Danetta, Jaxon’s fiancée.
- When the characters start a sexual relationship, Jaxon’s simultaneous hesitancy and eagerness are endearing.
- Most of the depictions of small-town Texas life are well portrayed and accurate.
- The resolution of the story is very sweet. Each character makes a grand gesture to prove to the other that he’s in love, and the ending that results is fairy-taleish and cute.
CONS:
- Lynley tells a pretty good story, and on the whole s/he’s a decent writer, but on occasion the writing is unnecessarily redundant. Example: “Tom had fair skin and grey-green eyes, but was far less beautiful than Jaxon. Danetta certainly had a thing for fair-skinned men with green eyes, though Tom didn’t have anything on Jaxon.” Those two sentences are back-to-back.
- The POV is pretty consistently from Kieran’s perspective (with a few little slip-ups here and there from Jaxon’s). But then 200 pages in, we get our first chapter from Jaxon’s POV. It knocked me off kilter a little bit when I had been wishing I could read Jaxon’s thoughts about the whole situation for the entirety of the book and then suddenly got to see them when I had assumed the entire story would focus on Kieran’s experiences.
- The quality of the production isn’t great. There are quite a few typos and editing issues, but most people can overlook those. Repeating entire lines of text (or in one instance, an entire paragraph) and not indenting any of the numerous paragraphs on one page…harder to ignore.
Overall comments: The plot isn’t central to this story–the romance is–but the plot’s not too bad. There’s more going on here than in most books that are pure romances rather than romantic mysteries or romantic action stories. There’s not a lot of sex, and what’s there isn’t very graphic, so the emotional attachment is definitely the focus.
Rating: 3 / 5
Although this book delivers a few steamy love scenes i found it almost impossible to get past the the ridiculous mistakes in spelling, grammar, left-out-word(s) and duplication of words and sometimes entire sentences. Unfortunately the best part of this book is the cover photo.
Rating: 1 / 5