Review: Wonderful Main and Secondary Plots
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2013
I read this book last year after looking for quality freebies. I was in search of romantic comedies that were free or cheap. I came across "Marriage Mistake" by Alyssa Kress and I would admit the cover gave me pause, it's really terrible. As a result, I thought the story would follow suite and but I'm happy to say it didn't and I'm happy I took the chance.The main characters Dean and Kelly were in married in Vegas and parted ways soon after spending a week in bliss together. The hero has a type A personality and he realizes that this must be some mistake because he would NEVER do something as spontaneous and irresponsible as marrying a woman he met briefly in Vegas. Well stranger things have happened and he did.Kelly is a showgirl who meets Dean and falls in love with the carefree easy going guy. They get married and she thinks everything is going great until he disappears from Vegas and when he reappears she realizes this can't be the man she married because he is nothing like the Dean she met weeks earlier.I enjoyed this story because I did not like Dean immediately. He was a jacka$$ to Kelly and even his brothers. The slow build to them getting together was nice because there was a chance to focus on the characterization and build of sexual tension raging between these two.The secondary characters also had some time to shine and you got to know them very well. One thing you'd notice in other novels by this author is that she takes the time to intertwine second story lines and they are just as interesting and add substantially to plot.Kudos to Kress for a great contemporary read with great characters, characterizations, plot development and sensual tension to keep the readers attention.