Our thoughts were so similar, I wasn’t alone! But I still hoped that my opinion might change. Chelsea was like wait….and she screen shot her review. That the heroine and side characters would vacillate between being believable to being written like they were one-dimensional, and I just didn’t get it. I rambled on in my text that the main male character felt fleshed out but the others were like cardboard characters. I kept thinking what was wrong with me? I should love this! So I sent a whining text to my co-blogger Chelsea, who had just finished this book. I loved some of the ideas, but unfortunately the story and the majority of the characters fell flat. Wow, they were sooooo good and definitely must reads! But To Have And to Hold didn’t wow me or let alone work for me. Just like two of her releases this year, I Wish You Were Mine and Good Girl. I adore her books and her latest releases always makes me think, now this is my favorite. In case you didn’t know, she’s one of my favorites. Oh my gosh, I feel sick to my stomach and I want to cry over this rating. But can he persuade a wedding planner on a comeback mission to unplan a wedding? And more importantly, how will he convince her that the wedding she should be planning…is theirs? Review: Standing directly in his way is the stunning blonde wedding planner whose practiced smiles and sassy comebacks both irritate and arouse him. Unfortunately, micromanaging the event is his only chance at proving Maya’s fiancé is a liar. Seth Tyler wishes he could write a blank check and be done with his sister Maya's fancy-pants wedding. Then she meets the uptight businessman who’s holding the purse strings. Now a pariah in Los Angeles, she seeks a fresh start in New York City and thinks she’s found it with her first bridal client, a sweet-if slightly spoiled-hotel heiress. To Have and to Hold ( The Wedding Belles #1)ĭiscovering her fiancé is an international con man just moments before they exchange vows devastates celebrity wedding planner Brooke Baldwin’s business-and breaks her heart.

To have and to hold by lauren layne