Just a Little White Lie edition by Lynnette Hallberg Contemporary Romance eBooks
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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.
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Just a Little White Lie edition by Lynnette Hallberg Contemporary Romance eBooks
~* 3.5 Stars *~When she catches her fiancé with his pants around his ankles just minutes before their wedding, his ex-girlfriend wrapped around him providing the sort of send off no nearly married man should ever get, socialite Lucinda Darling tears out of the church and away from the guests, much to the disapproval of her rich and ever-so-socially-aware parents. Spurred on by righteous fury and morbid embarrassment, she throws her bouquet, sure enough. At the supercilious prat's head. Then she climbs into her car, struggles to corral her fairy tale gown so it doesn't block the windshield, and hits the road, heading north out of Florida and into Georgia.
Which is exactly where she finds herself when her car dies and she rolls to a stop on the side of the road; humiliated, horrified, and now, stranded.
When Jake Parker sees the girl in the wedding dress by her obviously broken down car, he stops immediately. It wouldn't be at all Southern to just pass by without offering a helping hand. He offers her a lift, and can only imagine the picture they make as they head to the nearest town on his motorcycle. She's a wary little spitfire but obviously having a bad time, and once he finds out her story and her identity, he offers her something she can't say no to, a much-needed break from her own life and a short jaunt with Jake in his.
He doesn't tell her he knows her father, or that he's struggling against the intense attraction he feels for that man's daughter. Lucinda Darling may represent everything he's been fighting against for the last year...or she may be an unwitting bystander. What he can't deny is that she's seriously lovely, and if helping her out gives him time to spend with her, well...he's really okay with that. And as it turns out, she may just be able to help him out, too. She's a runaway bride after all...and that's just what he needs.
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Sweet, largely uncomplicated, humorous in places, and generally fun, Hallberg's Just a Little White Lie may not be the most complex or original contemporary romance I've ever read, but it's not trying to be. It is exactly as it seems: a pleasant way to spend a few feel-good hours of reading entertainment. And honestly, sometimes that's all it has to be for me to be happy.
Sure, the romance came together quickly, more quickly than I usually prefer, and neither the external plot-driven conflict nor the character-driven relationship conflict were very extensive or earth-shaking, but both Lucy and Jake were likable, and they had strong, solid chemistry with all the sizzling bits done up just right. As a reader, I was rooting for them both. I would have liked a bigger smack in the face for Lucy's ex-fiancé and a more public helping of humble pie for Lucy's father, but a surprise twist with Jake's dad at the end was a nice touch.
There was a short, secondary romance thread with Jake's sister and his best friend that, frankly, could just as easily been left out of the book. It was too abbreviated to really add anything to the story, and the time spent focused on them could've been spent adding some more meat to the evolution of Jake and Lucy's relationship, but I'm not really too picky when I'm looking for some mindless brain candy.
And this book is definitely what I consider brain candy. More importantly, it's written in the sort of breezy, sexy style that lets readers know it has no ambitions to be anything but exactly that. I can appreciate that as both a reader and a reviewer. I may not remember this one long after it's done, but I enjoyed it while I was reading. That works for me, and it's enough.
Disclosure: An ARC of this book was provided to me by Carina Press via NetGalley. This rating, review, and all included thoughts and comments are my own.
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Reviewed for One Good Book Deserves Another.
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Just a Little White Lie edition by Lynnette Hallberg Contemporary Romance eBooks Reviews
Lucinda finds out that her wedding day isn't going to be the best day of her life, not when she finds her fiancé with another on their "special day". Not knowing what else to do she runs trying to get as far away from the horrible reality that befalls her. But before she is able to ride down the sunset her car dies in the middle of nowhere and has no other alternative then to wait... and that's where she meets her tough looking savior ridding not on a white horse but in a Harley.
Jake needs to get back to his home town, word has gotten out that his grandmother is sick and what makes things worst for Jake is that she clings to the idea of seeing him happy, married and with kids before she lives this world. So he is off to try and patch things up with his family when she finds Lucinda stuck on the road, soon he start to believe that maybe, just maybe his found the solution to his problem, a fake fiancée.
Trouble catches up with this adorable made believe couple as the media starts looking for Lucinda, and the whole act is put in jeopardy when Lucinda's ex-fiancé try's to make her take him back and lies start to get bigger and bigger, but what's worst is that maybe Lucinda and Jake don't want to play pretend anymore.
Yes, this book is chick lit but its a fund and entertaining book to read, so just relax and enjoy the ride on this one. The chemistry, interaction and the way that Lucinda and Jake interact makes you want to keep on reading and the way the story is narrated makes you feel like you are watching a movie, I could even imagine a soundtrack to it and made some mental casting.
The down side to this book is that it leaves some loose ends here and there, at first I didn't noticed so I didn't care but little by little they became visible and then the "after taste" of this book wasn't so good, it made me want to know what happened here and there so that there was a real sense of closer.
~* 3.5 Stars *~
When she catches her fiancé with his pants around his ankles just minutes before their wedding, his ex-girlfriend wrapped around him providing the sort of send off no nearly married man should ever get, socialite Lucinda Darling tears out of the church and away from the guests, much to the disapproval of her rich and ever-so-socially-aware parents. Spurred on by righteous fury and morbid embarrassment, she throws her bouquet, sure enough. At the supercilious prat's head. Then she climbs into her car, struggles to corral her fairy tale gown so it doesn't block the windshield, and hits the road, heading north out of Florida and into Georgia.
Which is exactly where she finds herself when her car dies and she rolls to a stop on the side of the road; humiliated, horrified, and now, stranded.
When Jake Parker sees the girl in the wedding dress by her obviously broken down car, he stops immediately. It wouldn't be at all Southern to just pass by without offering a helping hand. He offers her a lift, and can only imagine the picture they make as they head to the nearest town on his motorcycle. She's a wary little spitfire but obviously having a bad time, and once he finds out her story and her identity, he offers her something she can't say no to, a much-needed break from her own life and a short jaunt with Jake in his.
He doesn't tell her he knows her father, or that he's struggling against the intense attraction he feels for that man's daughter. Lucinda Darling may represent everything he's been fighting against for the last year...or she may be an unwitting bystander. What he can't deny is that she's seriously lovely, and if helping her out gives him time to spend with her, well...he's really okay with that. And as it turns out, she may just be able to help him out, too. She's a runaway bride after all...and that's just what he needs.
~*~
Sweet, largely uncomplicated, humorous in places, and generally fun, Hallberg's Just a Little White Lie may not be the most complex or original contemporary romance I've ever read, but it's not trying to be. It is exactly as it seems a pleasant way to spend a few feel-good hours of reading entertainment. And honestly, sometimes that's all it has to be for me to be happy.
Sure, the romance came together quickly, more quickly than I usually prefer, and neither the external plot-driven conflict nor the character-driven relationship conflict were very extensive or earth-shaking, but both Lucy and Jake were likable, and they had strong, solid chemistry with all the sizzling bits done up just right. As a reader, I was rooting for them both. I would have liked a bigger smack in the face for Lucy's ex-fiancé and a more public helping of humble pie for Lucy's father, but a surprise twist with Jake's dad at the end was a nice touch.
There was a short, secondary romance thread with Jake's sister and his best friend that, frankly, could just as easily been left out of the book. It was too abbreviated to really add anything to the story, and the time spent focused on them could've been spent adding some more meat to the evolution of Jake and Lucy's relationship, but I'm not really too picky when I'm looking for some mindless brain candy.
And this book is definitely what I consider brain candy. More importantly, it's written in the sort of breezy, sexy style that lets readers know it has no ambitions to be anything but exactly that. I can appreciate that as both a reader and a reviewer. I may not remember this one long after it's done, but I enjoyed it while I was reading. That works for me, and it's enough.
Disclosure An ARC of this book was provided to me by Carina Press via NetGalley. This rating, review, and all included thoughts and comments are my own.
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Reviewed for One Good Book Deserves Another.
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