The white dress.
The diamond ring.
The full church.
The… missing groom.
Molly Miller had become a clichĆ© when Jackson Davis left her at the altar, but sheād crawled back from the heartbreak and embarrassment and was living her dream of running a successful eatery in San Francisco.
Well, good riddance. She didnāt need Jackson, or any other man in her life. She had Mollyās, her restaurant, she had her customers, and she finally had found some happy.
Who cared that she had unanswered questions as to why Jackson had left? It didnāt matter. Heād gone and that was that. Moving on, grinding out one day in front of another, baking her way through her emotions and generally moving on with her life.
Until… one early morning Jackson walked through the front door of her restaurant.
And her whole world imploded.
Title: | Bad Wedding |
Author: | Elise Faber |
Series: | Billionaire’s Club (Book 9) |
Pages: | 207 |
Genre(s): | Contemporary |
Trope(s): | Second Chance Romance |
Point of View: | 3rd person past tense hero and heroine |
Location: | US |
HEA: | āļø |
Release Date: | 13th July, 2020 |
Unexpectedly enjoyable
This is my first Elise Faber book and it was not a disappointment – I enjoyed it from the first page to the last.
The unexpectedness in this book was because I thought I knew what I was getting – a cute second chance romance. And I was very happy with that fact. So colour me surprised when the Russian mafia show up in the book and suddenly thereās guns and dodging bullets and big scary dudes and hiding out with some shadowy secret agent operatives! This was not what I was expectingā¦but I aināt mad. It wasnāt dark and dismal (like I expect any book that includes the word āmafiaā to be (sorry!)) – and the main focus of the story was definitely still the love story between Molly and Jackson. It actually turned into a bit of a fun romp – and I loved that.
Before it got to that point, I was already impressed with how easily Ms Faber pulled me into the story. The chapters are short and snappy – easily giving you that āoh, Iāll just read one moreā idea until you look up and the bookās nearly done. I never got bored and kept on wanting to find out what would happen next.
The story is written in third person, past tense in the heads of both Molly and Jackson. That being said, I was firmly on team Molly to begin with and was as annoyed at Jackson as she herself was. I didnāt agree with his motives or his decisions regarding the wedding – but I slowly forgave him just as Molly did. It was cleverly done.
This is the 9th book in the Billionaireās Club series but, as I mentioned, this is the first Iāve read of Ms Faberās so I obviously havenāt read any of the rest of the series. At the beginning of this book thereās a list of whoās who from the series so far and that gave me the fear – I would NEVER remember all these names or how they were interconnected. I actually donāt think there were any cameos from any of these people so I neednāt have worried. Regardless, this book stands completely alone so no other books are required to enjoy this one.
Having said that, the secret agents appear to be getting their own spin-off series and I while Molly and Jacksonās part in the Russian mafia is over, I suppose the overall threat from the group hasnāt really gone away which will probably be picked up in the first of the aforementioned KTS series, Riding The Edge. And I probably will pick that one up, too, as I loved Dan. He reminded me of FBI agent Doug Matthews from McMillions – who I have a (not so secret) crush on!
Thereās not much sex in this book – so when it does happen itās explosive! A bit of angry sex when Molly and Jackson re-meet after 4 years. It was near the start of the book and while it was very hot, the fact that thereās not much after that fact is something I didnāt even realise until I finished the book. I love me a bit of sex in a book and I didnāt miss it as there was so many other things going on. During the sex – and in discussions afterwards – thereās a bit of backdoor access tinkering but nothing you canāt gloss over if thatās not your thing. And there’s plenty of intimacy, kissing and the like to keep everyone, including me, happy.
I loved both Molly and Jackson as characters. I especially liked the honesty between them, especially on Mollyās end, in that she realised that after her wedding-that-wasnāt, she grew and became so much more. Jackson was proud of her and, you know, I was, too. I actually found her quite inspiring.
And I also really liked the fact that Jackson (and on occasion Molly, too) used many, many terms of endearment. It was sweet and really spoke of the deep feelings that Jackson still held for Molly. I read a book last week that made me #TeamHug – now Iām also #TeamEndearment.
There are three epilogues for this story – love me an epilogue – but only 1 for this particular story. One then sets up the next book in the series, Bad Engagement, which again sounds like a fun, fake-relationship romance – thatāll probably turn into another fun romp. The third sets up the KTS series as above.
Overall, this was a fabulously fun romp of a second chance romance and I loved every minute of it. It wasnāt what I anticipated but in the end I got something I hadnāt been expecting but ended up enjoying even more than I probably would have. 5 stars and I will look out for other books by Elise Faber in the future as I loved her style. Recommended.
USA Today bestselling author, Elise Faber, loves chocolate, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and hockey (the order depending on the day and how well her team — the Sharks! — are playing). She and her husband also play as much hockey as they can squeeze into their schedules, so much so that their typical date night is spent on the ice. Elise is the mom to two exuberant boys and lives in Northern California.
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