Review: It was ok....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
A Marrying Man picks up a year after A Betting Man ends. Kent and Terry seem happy, Kent is ready to propose and have a rushed marriage. He enlists Blaine, the bet instigator, and Spencer, Terry’s boss, to plan the wedding. Instead of hiring a wedding planner… Conveniently Spencer’s mother is a retired wedding planner from back in the day, and immediately takes over for the clueless boys. Why would you ask two single men to plan a wedding? I just don’t get it…Blaine is as spoiled as Kent, maybe not as obnoxious, but he is a perfect specimen of manhood, handsome, wealthy, intelligent, and a tramp. With mirrors on his ceiling. There is probably more too him than appears, we do get some family history for him which may explain his issues. His daddy is a manwhore, and his mother a drunk lawyer. Spencer has his own issues in the form of a nasty, money grabbing ex-wife, and a daughter he never sees. His parents seem ok, and he has a brother in the Army. But the ex-wife, wow. Could she be any more stereotypically bad?I think that may be my problem with these books. I can’t relate to the characters at all. They are all so everything. So handsome, so smart, so rich, so perfect, so successful, with such extreme issues. The ex-wife is so evil, Kent’s parents are so country, Terry’s parents are so rich, Blaine’s dad is such a whore. Everything is an extreme, no subtly at all. I feel like I’ve been hit over the head with these guys. The plot was ok, but there were parts that didn’t make sense to me. One is Vanessa, the evil ex-bitch. Something happens and she has a total change of character that I didn’t understand. Actually Blaine’s ex-girlfriend did the same thing at one point, a complete personality change, even her voice changed. Why? No idea.But the writing is good. I didn’t particularly like the plot, or the characters, but I can see that Sandrine is a good technical writer. I need to go try another series and see if I like it better. I don’t dislike these, but just can’t get in to them.A copy of this book was provided for review. The original review posted at [...].