Lynnette Hallberg

I wanted to like this book. I actually do like the two main characters but the story was a little too clichéd for me. Synopsis:Lucinda Darling thinks she's ready to get married. Even though Donald doesn't give her butterflies, the heiress is ready to make her marriage work. She's got the dress, she's at the church and her fiancé...is making out with his ex. So Lucinda stuffs her tulle skirts into her tiny sports car and hits the road...only to have her car break down. Jake Parker knows he's not ready to settle down. But Grandma Hattie is sick, so, to make her happy, he's returning home to find himself a fake fiancée. When Jake rescues Lucy from the side of the highway, she goes from runaway bride to temporary fiancée. Lucy hopes to escape the public eye in small-town Georgia, but she doesn't expect to fall for Jake's charming hometown, let alone Jake himself. Soon Jake and Lucy both start to wish their lie were true. But Lucy knows she must stop their pretense before Jake's family-and her heart-are hurt so badly they'll never recover. Review:I love chick-lit as much as the next girl and this kind of story goes well with humour; in fact Jill Mansell is the master of these kinds of books. So it’s really sad to say that there was really no sparkle for me when I finished reading it. Sure, I wanted to bash Lucy and Jake’s heads half the time because they were both being so ridiculous.As for the story. Lucinda is business minded and Jake has his law background so why didn’t they just sit down and talk out the issue basics and then settle with a story of how they met etc to tell his folks without all the dramas of ex's involved and parents trying to take matters into their own hands. It drags out a little bit too much. I mean, a truck hitting her, and Zane coming home. How did that help the storyline? It didn’t. It just added more unnecessary words to read that didn’t aid the story in anyway. And are there really grandma’s in the word that would FORCE their own grandsons to marry so just they can be selfish and bounce a baby on their knee? What if he was gay?I also had issues with the writing. I’m from Europe but I’ve read a staggering amount of American novels so to read lots of southern American phrases (darn tootin, oh lordy, sugar, etc) in the text rather than dialogue was a little annoying if not sloppy.So, on the whole, not one of my favourites. I thought it was an interesting story from the description but then didn’t turn out to be what I’d hoped.… (més)

This is a pure romance book and remind me of Mill and Boon books that I used to read before :) A story of two strangers who meet and fall in love with each other.

This book with under 200 pages tells the story of Lucinda Darling who left her groom at the altar on the day of her wedding when she found that her soon to be husband making out with his ex. She then meet Jake who came to rescue and soon found herself agreeing to be his fiancé to meet his family. And as usual with all the other romance book, they fall in love with each other but due to circumstance, one of them decided to leave while the other chase after her.

Among the characters, I like Jake's father character the most. He was the most despicable character at the beginning of the book but at the end, he becomes the hero something that is unexpected by me as the reader :)… (més)