Customer Reviews

One Bride Too Many / One Groom To Go (Harlequin Duets, No. 59)

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I so enjoyed reading this book. I love the length of Duets, just right for a Friday night bubble bath-plus read for each half, but in the past writers have had problems with too complicated stories for the length or not complicated enough, and the humor has sometimes been just too low for my tastes.

This book was just right. The characters were fully fleshed out, competent professionals that I could respect and whose sparks and complications sounded real enough. Oh sure, there were a couple of too-cutesy bits (the strip tease???) but they were disposed of soon enough.

I liked the situations, I liked the chemistry between both couples, I liked the smart, crisp writing that refused to let me put down the book.

Ms. Drew, I definitely will keep an eye out for future books by you!

From the back cover:

These bad boy grooms are about to meet some good girl brides!


ONE BRIDE TOO MANY by Jennifer Drew

The choices are endless!

Marriage was never in the cards for Cole Bailey. But his grandfather is demanding he marry a "nice" girl--and soon! When he asks his old chum Tess Morgan to hook him up with her single friends, she's less than thrilled. How can she prove SHE'S the perfect one...and that there's simply one bride too many?


ONE GROOM TO GO by Jennifer Drew

Ready and willing?

Zack Bailey is determined to avoid the marriage trap. It's bad enough that he has to guest-star on a women's home-improvement show. Gorgeous host Megan Danbury is so picky, he's ready to swear off females for good! But when sparks start flying on the set, Zack sees Megan in a whole new--and very attractive!--light. Maybe he's more than ready to suit up and walk down the aisle after all!

And my review:

I didn't expect to like this collection, since I hadn't liked the first Jennifer Drew book I tried. Also, Jennifer Drew is actually a pen name for a mother-daughter writing team. This is the very first time I enjoyed a book that was a collaboration.

ONE BRIDE TOO MANY was delightful. I really liked both Tess and Cole, though sometimes I could have given Cole a smack for taking so long to realize the right woman was right under his nose. I enjoyed that Tess didn't throw herself at Cole, even though she'd been in love with him since high school. The sparks between these two were great to watch. And this story was funny without being forced. Four stars.

But I felt let down by ONE GROOM TO GO. I didn't like Zack in the first book, and I didn't like him here. He was too sex-crazed for me. I got really sick of his near-pornographic thoughts every time he saw the heroine, and his cheesy innuendoes had me rolling my eyes. And there's a line about him picturing himself "wiggling his tongue between her lips". Wiggling his tongue? When I read that line, I pictured the hero lapping at her mouth like a dog with a bowl of water. It was so not sexy or romantic. When the heroine made a fool of herself trying to practically seduce him into doing what she wanted I had enough and quit reading. Two stars.

I was pleasantly suprised by liking half this book. Not highly recommended, but the first story was worth reading.

One Bride Too Many--Jennifer Drew

Cole Bailey needs a bride in order to secure the family business. Tess Morgan is an old friend. She's a girl...surely she can fix him up with some of her friends. But as Cole dates one woman after another, looking for that perfect someone, he finds none of them can even begin to compare to Tess. What are the odds that Tess will see him as more than a chum...what are the odds he can make her love him and see that she's the only woman he needs, and anyone else would simply be One Bride Too Many?

One Groom To Go--Jennifer Drew

When Megan Danbury orders Zack Bailey to strip, she didn't mean his clothes, she meant the paint from the cabinet. Her show is called Do It Herself, not Watch-the-big-Strapping-Man-Do-It, but watching Zack, with or without his shirt, seems to be appealing to her demographics (any female between 1 and 100). As a matter of fact, watching Zack appeals to Megan, too. Sparks fly on the set and between the sheets as Megan orders One Groom to Go, please!

Jennifer Drew pens two light-hearted romps down the matrimonial aisle--fast, fun stories guarenteed to leave a smile on the reader's face!

ONE BRIDE TOO MANY and ONE GROOM TO GO, two new releases combined into one Duets book, tell the humorous path of matrimony for twins when their grandfather Marsh demands that they marry. Refusal to marry means that he'll sell the Bailey stock and their mother will lose control of the business.

In ONE BRIDE TOO MANY Cole Bailey crashes a wedding reception looking for a bride of his own. When he unexpectedly rescues the bridesmaid's dress from permanent damage, he's surprised to see the changes time has made to a former classmate. Tess Morgan's transformation leaves him breathless, but a man can't date a "pal." When Tess looses a bet to him, Cole persuades her to play matchmaker for him. Friday nights will never be the same as he manipulates and monopolizes his way through the weekends and Tess sits home alone, or worse finds herself on a double date with him.

In ONE GROOM TO GO, Zach Bailey figures that if he can hold out until his brother and new bride are pregnant, he can get off the marriage hook with his grandfather. He hopes that his grandfather will be amenable to passing his shares of stock to a new Bailey, thereby ensuring that his mother remains in her current position in the company. Until news of unclehood arrives, Zach convinces the host of a home improvement show, Megan Danbury, to becomes his "fake girlfriend" in exchange for saving her career. But Megan is trouble personified on screen and off. She needs him to keep the station owner happy and her career intact, but she'd really prefer to tell him what he can do with his hammer and stripper.

Jennifer Drew provides fans of romantic comedy two amusing romps in this Duet selection. The bad-boy Bailey twins find themselves yielding to the demands of the heart with entrancing characterizations and a fun plot. A quick, light read filled with witty dialogue and outrageous situations, this Duet selection comes highly recommended.