Book Review: Once Upon a Bride: A Novella (Bridesmaids Behaving Badly) by Jenny Holiday

December 2, 2018

Book Review: Once Upon a Bride: A Novella (Bridesmaids Behaving Badly) by Jenny Holiday

Once Upon a Bride by Jenny Holiday
Series: Bridesmaids Behaving Badly
on October 9, 2018
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Comedy
TropesPages: 119
Format: eBook
Source: Amazon
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four-stars

USA Today bestselling author Jenny Holiday’s hilarious prequel to her acclaimed Bridesmaids Behaving Badly series!

Jay Smith likes to be in control. His every choice, every move, is made with his carefully planned future in mind. Sure, some people think that’s boring. But Jay knows who he is, and he makes no apologies for it. So when the lobby in his accounting firm needs a makeover, Jay takes charge—and quickly determines he needs a designer. What he does not need is a woman who tempts him to break all his long-held rules.

Elise Maxwell needs this job. After cutting off her overbearing, old-money family, she’s determined to establish a successful design business—all on her own. Independent for the first time in her life, Elise isn’t looking for a boyfriend. She certainly doesn’t want someone telling her what to do.

Until she meets Jay…

Also in this series: One And Only

Review:

I loved this story on how Jay and Elise first met! Novellas are usually hit or miss for me and when its over I’m not always left satisfied. I’m happy to report this was a good read and Jenny Holiday laid a good foundation for the other books with this story. Elise was trying to find her footing and I loved that she wanted to be independent and she was very assertive. Jay took me by surprise in this story because he wasn’t as uptight like i thought he was in “One and Only” and there’s a nice sexy side to him as well. This was a well written novella and I’m so excited to read “Merrily Ever After” and catch up with Jay and Elise.

About the Author:

Jenny Holiday started writing in fourth grade, when her awesome hippie teacher, between sessions of Pete Seeger singing and anti-nuclear power plant letter writing, gave the kids notebooks and told them to write stories. Most of Jenny’s featured poltergeist, alien invasions, or serial killers who managed to murder everyone except her and her mom. She showed early promise as a romance writer, though, because nearly every story had a happy ending: fictional Jenny woke up to find that the story had been a dream, and that her best friend, father, and sister had not, in fact, been axe-murdered.

From then on, she was always writing, often in her diary, where she liked to decorate her declarations of existential angst with nail polish teardrops. Eventually she channeled her penchant for scribbling into a more useful format. After picking up a PhD in urban geography, she became a professional writer, spending many years promoting research at a major university, which allowed her to become an armchair astronomer/historian/particle physicist, depending on the day. Eventually, she decided to try her hand again at happy endings—minus the bloodbaths. You can follow her on twitter at @jennyholi and @TropeHeroine or visit her on the web at jennyholiday.com.

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