Review: Wedding Disaster Leads A Bride to Get a Second Chance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2013
I chose this book because I was intrigued by the blurb and I enjoy stories that have creative beginnings.  In this case the story begins at the altar so to speak.Ross is walking back to his business one day when he stops to observe with others to see what looks like a wedding at a church.  Suddenly, the bride in her lovely white gown comes barreling out of the church looking very distraught.  She is lovely and captures his attention immediately.  Her bridesmaid hands her a case and her purse as the woman rushes to leave her own wedding.  Ross assists her into the waiting limo.  They make eye contact and share a moment, but then she's off.  The bridesmaid announces to the crowd of on lookers that the wedding was off because the groom got caught kissing his best man right before the wedding.  Ross continues on his way, but can't get the bride out of his mind and that's a first where he and women are concerned.Shanna just needs to get away so cashes in her honeymoon tickets to Jamaica and takes off for another island to pull herself together.  Not long after she arrives, she encounters the man who caught her attention when he helped her into the car.  Shanna and Ross don't mess around and are soon upstairs in her room getting hot and heavy.  It is a three-day affair in which Ross goes from attracted to smitten and where Shanna realizes that she's actually grateful to her ex-fiance because she never really loved him enough to marry him.  But everything comes to a screeching halt when she talks to her sister and discovers that the announcement at the wedding had been a lie from a jealous friend who wanted the fiance all to herself.Shanna cuts things off with Ross now more confused than ever as she arrives home.  She has done some thinking, but hasn't arrived at a conclusion yet when she is met at the airport by Kevin.  She tells him sorry for running out, but has made up her mind that she still doesn't want to marry him.  Kevin still wants her so tells her he's not giving up.  Shanna is reeling and not just from Kevin.  The island affair with Ross tempts her with more, but she wants to get her head on straight first.  Ross returns and knows what he wants, but respects Shanna's choice.Over the next few months, Shanna acquires a phone stalker and other things start to happen leaving her on edge.  She finally places the call to Ross, who's a security expert.  Ross and his friends help Shanna track down all the clues that lead to a shocking result.  All the while, Ross and Shanna come back together and pick up with the hot and steamy right where they left off.  His feelings are strong and she doubts hers and his before finally acknowledging things.  But the answer to her stalker question might leaver her with no room to do anything about it.I have to say I was on the fence about this book.  There were two occasions when I almost laid the book aside and didn't finish.  The first happened when they literally jumped each others bones within five minutes of seeing each other at the island resort.  I've heard of rebound sex and comfort sex and all that, but wow- grabbing a total stranger and dragging them up to your room and getting it on just didn't do it for me.  I already thought she was a bit extreme when she just ran out of that church without verifying LaToya's word for what she was told.  There is an explanation later of why, but still I felt she owed a guy she had been with for five years at least a confrontation.  Her decision to put a temporary moratorium on her love life when she got back so she could get her head on straight made me decide to continue.  I found the stalker plot a good touch as I love romantic suspense and I loved that it was Ross who was coming to help solve the problem.  I didn't mind that they picked back up with where they left off because at least this time they were talking and looking for a relationship.  There were a lot of sex scenes that I ended up skimming through after a time.  But then when the clues finally led to answers I found it all a bit over the top.  At that point, I finished because I was into Shanna and Ross as a couple.  I didn't really care about the other angle of the story any more.  When it came to who was the shadowy stalker and the antics, I felt like I was reading about out of control teenager not adults who were working with solid careers.So it had certain aspects that I liked and others that bugged me about both the romance and the suspense side of things.  Those who enjoy steamy romantic suspense might like this story.