Too Good to be True [Import] [Paperback]

Sheila O'Flanagan (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; Export Ed edition (2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0755323807
• ISBN-13: 978-0755323807
• Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 1.6 x 7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Can a one night stand lead to "happily ever after"?, May 22, 2006

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Tracy Vest (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Too Good to be True (Paperback)

Carey and Ben meet on a trans-Atlantic flight and hit it off. After a passionate one night stand, the two impulsively head to Vegas and tie the knot. When they return to Dublin, their new-found happiness is put to the test by shocked friends, family, and former lovers.

Ben's sister Freya decides to throw them a wedding party, and invites his former lover, Leah to the celebration. Leah manages to make a spectacle of herself. Between Leah's inappropriate kiss and Ben's friends speculating how long it will take until Ben is back in Leah's bed, Carey feels humiliated. Her former lover, the much married Peter shows up at the festivities uninvited and suddenly wants to reconcile with her now that he has left his wife; she declines but not before he steals a kiss from her. When Ben sees the kiss, he assumes the worst, and rather than talk it out, Ben ignores it in hopes that it will sort itself out.

Soon, the newlyweds break up and Carey is forced to live on her own for once in her life. While a full blown divorce will take 4 years according to Irish law, in order for them both to get on with their lives, Carey offers to go to the Dominican Republic to start the dissolution proceedings, though there are still unresolved feelings between the two, and neither wants to admit feelings for the other. When Freya discovers that at 40 she is experiencing early menopause, she has no one to talk to. She forges a friendship with Carey's mom and sister, much to the displeasure of Carey and Ben. Can they ever sort it out?

O'Flanagan has penned an interesting story with charismatic characters that the reader will instantly like (and some that they will hate), as she takes the reader on a journey to discover if there is a such thing as love and first sight, as well as how two people can make a one night stand last forever.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good., January 9, 2007

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H. Lessard "curlygirl" (Rohnert Park CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Too Good to be True (Paperback)

This is the second book I've read from this author. The first one was He's got to go. I wasn't so impressed with this one and I felt she was dragging on the story. Also, "He's got to go" was not as predictable.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Will they, won't they?, September 30, 2007

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Jane Austen "Sumita CDM" (New Delhi, India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Too Good to Be True (Paperback)

This book, Too Good to be True, revolves around Carey Browne, her family and how she takes up the decisions from her heart. The story tells us how Carey meets Ben Russell, the man she feels is the man of her dreams. Carey and Ben get married in a short period of meeting each other in the backdrop of Las Vegas.

Obviously, everybody who knows Carey and Ben are astonished to find them married at such a short notice. At the wedding party thrown by Ben's sister, Freya, things go bit haywire and Carey and Ben separate soon after their wedding.

What follows is the story as to what happens in their lives thereafter.

Why does Carey and Ben's relationship go haywire at the wedding party? Do Carey and Ben separate and divorce each other?? OR they give each other another chance to look into their relationship with a different perspective?

Read on this book to find out.

Well, this is the first book I took up by this author, Sheila O'Flanagan. Nice read. I just might take up another book to read by the same author.