Date: August 27, 2013
ISBN: 978-0373777747
Contemporary, Western
Obtained via: Publicist
3 Hearts
On what
should have been the happiest day of her life Brylee Parrish’s world came
crashing down at the wedding that wasn’t. Despite the fact that Hutch Carmody tried to
tell her it just wasn’t going to work between them, Brylee pushed to go ahead
with the wedding. Hutch manned up,
albeit it a little too late in the game and left Brylee at the altar. With the passage of time Brylee came to
accept that Hutch was right but that doesn’t mean her heart doesn’t ache for a
man and a family of her own.
Zach Sutton
has had it with Hollywood. Starting out as a bronco rider he never asked for
the fame and attention that came with a leading man’s life. Done with the glitz
and glamour he packed his bags and moved to Three Trees, Montana. While out one
fine day after arriving he meets his neighbor, Brylee and from that moment on
he can’t seem to get the woman of his mind.
Before he can act on his feelings and get to know Brylee better his Hollywood
housekeeper, Cleo, descends on him followed quickly by younger brother Nash. Just as things are settling down his other
brother, Landry appears and his presence doesn’t bode good things.
Still, there
is something between Brylee and Zach and the lightening isn’t all from the
storm that brings them together. They
both have pain in their past, relationships that have gone south. Can they trust that they may have met “the
one?”
I felt bad
for Brylee when Hutch left her at the altar and I applauded her strength of
character when she picked herself up and built a highly successful and thriving
business. In some of the Big Sky books
she was strong and resourceful and in others she lamented not having a man of
her own. Linda Lael Miller’s BIG SKY WEDDING opens wish Brylee
feeling like she’s never going to meet the man of her dreams. I felt like it was a step back for a
character, a woman, who had built so much in her life.
I did like Zane. He is a character with substance, leaving
behind a life that stopped working for him and didn’t look back. He’s got a plan and even with a housekeeper
he was pretty darn glad to have around arrived along with a younger brother he
barely knew, he rolled with the punches.
Even when Landry with his questionable character arrived on the scene
Zane was a stand up guy. Awesome character.
Cleo was a
fun character as well although there wasn’t a whole lot of difference between
her and Opal who, up until BIG SKY
WEDDING seemed to move house to house setting the residents lives in order. A scene or two with Opal and Cleo meeting, especially
since Parable and Three Trees are both small towns, would have been highly
entertaining. With their bigger than
life attitudes and hearts that have room for anyone that comes into their
lives, they would have had some dynamite scenes.
BIG SKY WEDDING is the kind of story that would
serve as a nice intro to romance for a teenaged daughter. Except for the quick and dirty ending
bringing Brylee and Zane together. If
there was chemistry between them it happened outside the pages of the
book. It’s a nice story. I like what Ms. Miller does with the secondary
characters, including the dogs and horses.
There just didn’t seem to be anything going on between the two main
characters. I kept wondering when the
sparks would fly between Zane and Brylee and as the pages marched on and on I
wondered if they would happen at all.
Then all of a sudden the story wound up and after a quick summation the
story ends. I didn’t dislike the story;
I enjoyed it as a stand-alone contemporary story about people in general. But the romance was a non-event.
"This
is an objective review and not an endorsement of this book."
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