Review: Pure Bliss!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2013
Okay, so...full disclosure...I loved Ms. Bielman's Ever After novellas, "Worth the Risk," and "Yours At Midnight," but I'd never read a Bliss before and I wasn't sure a sweet love story with a closed door on the sexytimes was really going to satisfy me. Turns out I was wrong to doubt! This "enemies to lovers" story conveys all the heart, heat and emotion anybody could ask for, without turning me fifty shades of red while I sat in the pediatrician's office with my e-reader.Don't let the Bliss imprint fool you. In "Kissing the Maid of Honor," the sexual tension between maid of honor Sela Sullivan and bride's older brother Luke Watters is hot. Sparks fly between Sela and Luke as they're thrown together for Luke's sister Vanessa's wedding and try to get beyond their painful and awkward high-school dealins. But the scenes, the interactions, and the dialogue are so real, and so vivid-- nothing felt restrained or glossed over. Not just with regard to the sexy scenes, but overall. There's a bachelorette party with games and other...accoutrements...as naughty and hilarious as anything you'll find this side of Vegas, baby! I could identify with Sela and her reluctance to be friendly with, much less fall for, a guy who trampled her heart in high school. At the same time, I rooted for Luke, because he wasn't the same emotionally stunted jock-ass Sela remembered."Kissing the Maid of Honor" is not your mama's Harlequin. It's modern, and classy and oh-so-satisfying. Pure Bliss.I will definitely be checking out more Bliss titles, but Ms. Bielman belongs in my auto-buy category no matter what line she writes for!