Review: A Book to Fall in Love With
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2014
Just slightly more erotic than sweet, this is a book to read when you need a"happy" story that is connected, clearly and obviously, to other happy ending stories.  While I'm not sure I would recommend it to my mom, I am sure a few of my friends would love it, and even maybe a couple of my sisters."The Substitute Bride" is actually about three substitutions in weddings.  Each couple has challenges ahead, but for the moment, the emphasis is on getting to "I do".  The author has a wonderful grasp of human emotion and the mysterious things that provide the drive for all of us.  Above all, in this story, she is doing an examination of the things that drive the relationship between a mother and her daughter.  And all the things that these two types of people do to each other in their efforts to define themselves without damaging the image the other has of them.I adored Marley from word one, but I found myself thinking a lot about my mother as I "met" Angelina and got to know her better.  I'm pretty sure the author had no intention of causing such introspection when she started to write, but I found myself thinking about the relationship I have with my own mother.The book is part of a series.  I highly recommend it, and suspect I feel the same way about the other books in the group.