Review: 4.5 - "Reed doesn't do the woo." Stars!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
If at all possible, book two in the Wedding Dare series is even hotter than book one. Baiting the Maid of Honor worked for me on every level, with a rich storyline, well developed characters and the flawless progression of the series as a whole. Tessa Bailey really does excel when it comes to the guys she gives us to drool over in her books.I love me some dominant alpha male and SWAT Officer Reed Lawson is all that and a bag of crackers, wrapped up in a dirty-talking, take-no-s***, inked and scarred package.”You’ve had me hard for days, baby. I want to **** you more than I want to breathe.””Are you always this inappropriate?” ... “Even when a lady has shown exactly zero interest?” ...“Baby , if that was zero. I can’t wait to see what ten looks like.”Southern Belle Julie Piper spends her life making others happy, some might say at the detriment to her own happiness. There is be a reason for that, but it isn’t one that she will willingly discuss. That is until Reed see’s past the facade to the woman she really is, it’s this fact as well as all of their other differences that make it easier for her to embrace the woman she really wants to be...”Would you like me take off my pants now so you can really be impressed?”What I really liked about this book, is the contrast it offered to book one Falling For the Groomsman, where Christine and Tyler’s story was absorbing due to its fun, light-heartedness. Tessa has spun that on its head in Baiting the Maid of Honor. Both Reed and Julie are battling with the assumption that they are ‘not good enough’ and in private are in a pretty dark place but for totally different reasons. Reed gives Julie something she didn’t even realise she needed, while she in turn makes him want things he never thought he could have, this is what ultimately makes their connection so strong.All he wanted was to crush her to him. Absorb her scent. Her light. Never let her go.The push and pull between these two, and the dual POV again work perfectly, as with book one, you are pulled fully into the drama of Julie and Reed as a couple, and the Wedding preparations and the rest of the characters as the week progresses for all of them at Beaver Creek Resort as a whole.ARC generously provided by Entangled in exchange for the above honest review.