Review: A LIGHT FLAKY PASTRY WITH HEAVY CREAM INSIDE...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2013
Planning for Love is a light flaky pastry with heavy cream inside.  Ivy and Ben are at the opposite ends of the marriage spectrum.  She's all about weddings and romance and love; he wants nothing to do with any of that, especially the love part.  Ivy is wedding planner extraordinaire and just happens to end up featured on "Wild Wedding Smackdown", a reality TV show about bad weddings, the worse the better, because of one of her brides.  Ben happens to be behind the camera for it.  After the wedding, Ben and Ivy burn up the night only for Ben to walk away.Now Ivy is being featured on a new reality TV show "Planning for Love" and is working toward her dream shop.  Without warning, Ben is thrown back into her life as the stand in cameraman for her new show.  Though hurt by Ben's previous actions, Ivy can't stop herself from falling in love all over again.But Ben has some skeletons in his closet - a family curse, a ruined career, and a whole lot of pride.  Ben's angsty brooding is more than a match for Ivy's sweetness.  It is this tug of war that keeps Planning for Love from becoming overly saccharine and too light and airy.  Ben and Ivy complement each other very well.  Along the way, we meet a set of secondary characters all of whom could easily be protagonists in their own books.  They are as well crafted and finely drawn as Ivy and Ben.RATING: 4REVIEWED BY: Monique Neaves,My Book Addiction Reviews