Wedding Dress for Sale
(Second-Story Brides #1)
3 HEARTS
From Goodreads
Not even the bride could deny a certain punch-line quality to her current situation: hard-nosed divorce attorney dumps her fiancé and her career to take a job selling wedding gowns.
Sydney Garfield has always approached relationships rationally—none of this emotional head-over-heels or opposites-attract business. Marrying Jack Kaiser is the smart thing to do—after all, he’ll be the “perfect” husband. But after a life-changing shake-up at work, Sydney abandons logic—and her fiancé—to chase the fairy tale.
Real-estate mogul Jack can’t believe the woman he’s head-over-heels for is ditching her hard-won success—and him—to work as a small-town shop clerk. That’s her idea of a fairy tale? Hoping she's merely in need of time, Jack follows Sydney to Smizer Mill, where he invests in the quaint coffee shop next door. Now, he’s got a few new challenges: make a failing coffee shop a success and convince Sydney that theirs is a romance worthy of a true happily ever after.
Wedding Dress for Sale is the first book in the Second-Story Brides series by Natale Stenzel. This book was just okay for me. The relationship between the hero and heroine seemed so distant.
Jack Kaiser has no idea what hit him. Life is good. He is at the top of his game as a real estate god, he's soon to be married to a woman that he loves and they just had the most amazing sex of their entire relationship. It feels like she has finally let go and really truly let him in. And today she's told him the wedding is off, she's left her job, and she's running away to a small town to start a new life.
Sydney Garfield needs to get away. The world that she is living in is closing in on her fast. She's a divorce lawyer and a darned good one. Seeing a client, that she personally identified with, held at knife point by her soon to be ex-husband has her re-evaluating. What would a calm, rationale, professional woman do? Probably not run away from her job, home and fiance to a small town she's never lived in and take a job as a sales person for a wedding dress shop. But, that's exactly what she has done.
In all fairness, I enjoyed Jack a lot! He was very entertaining and went to the extreme to convince Sydney that he loves her and that they are meant to be. The townspeople were the perfect amount of quirky. I just had such a hard time with Sydney. There is a difference between cold feet and being scared and being completely detached from reality. She seemed so oblivious to the world around her and how to deal with people and their emotions.
"My decision to marry you was an unemotional one. I wasn't going to fall for the fairy tale like my mother did.......I would decide with my head. Not my heart, so I chose you. With my head. Not my heart.....And now I see how that can blow up in my face, too. I just don't get it."
I will be reading the next book, though. The writing was good, the townspeople have me wanting to know what they will do next and I'm hoping the hero and heroine will hold their own.
A special thank you to NetGalley.com for the loan of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Hotness Rating
3 out of 5
A new author and series to me, but it sounds like fun. Thanks for the review Tina.
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