Review: This book was great!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2011
I think I've seen this movie - 5 or 10 times, different names of each movie - but you know. I really love books a lot better :) And for me, this was a lot more fun than watching a movie - it was way cute with a lot of fun humor :)The book starts off right as the blurb says - Lucinda in a wedding dress, at the church, stomping on the daises after seeing her "ex" making out with HiS "ex" inside the church! She had the nerve to come out with her dress INSIDE Out!! Lucinda isn't stupid - she's not going to marry someone who cheats on her, and just because her daddy is the famous owner of the "Darling Enterprise" and the press is there to film the wedding - she's not going to put up with it -Donald - the typical male, so his ex shows up before the wedding starts to "wish him luck" and one thing leads to another - PaLeASE! Donald is such a pig. but he's not going down alone - when Lucinda turns to leave the church without getting married he announces his "contract" with her father - once they're married, he's got a share in the company - and he's NOT going to let her little "snit fit" get in the way of that!Hoooohohoho - wrong thing to say -So Lucinda gets into her little sports car, while still in her wedding dress, and takes off - she doesn't know where she's going, and doesn't care. she just wants to get as many miles away as she can...That works out fine until her car breaks down - she coasts to the side of the road, and just as luck woudl have it - her cell phone battery died... She was going to charge it at the church... just like she was going to get married at the church.... neither happened though.. she gets out of her car ...Jake got a phone call from his dad, they never really had a good relationship - so when he calls out of the blue and tells him his Gram is sick and wants him to come home. Put her mind to rest that he's getting married and planning on carrying the family name out to ease her poor old 89 year old soul, Jake jumps on his Harley and heads to Pride to pay the family a visit... Only he's not ready to get married - he doesn't even want to think about marriage... so how's he suppose to play this out??when all of a sudden, he sees a lady in a wedding gown on the side of the road kicking her car - his mama would kill him if he didn't stop to offer his help (I LOVE the southern charm in this book!)when he notices she's the famous Lucinda Darling - the very Lucinda Darling from Darling enterprise that he just spent the last year fighting with - the enemy, he almost decides to leave her stranded - but of course, his mama would have his hide if he left a woman stranded on the side of the road - didn't matter who she was ... so she bunches up her wedding gown and grabs her duffle bag from the car and slides on the HarleyThe book was great! LOVED the way things were set up - Lucinda (aka Lucy for the week she was the "runaway bride" agreed to help out Jake with his little fence' problem, since he was so kind to help her out..Only they couldn't keep away from the press, and once they start telling Jake's family that they're going to be married - things start to get complicated with each lie they tell ....The attraction starts off as a little spark, but it's easily ignored, I love the humor and like i said, the southern hospitality from this book - the small town where everyone know's Jake, and once his sister found out they were engaged, the whole town was asking them about it before lunchtime!to be in such a town .... great story - I loved reading this. Stayed up too late to finish it because I didn't want to put it down :)