Whose Bride Is She Anyway?

by Dakota Cassidy

Whose Bride Is She Anyway? is the most popular reality show on TV, featuring a bride, twenty potential hunk 'o licious grooms, a jury and a whole lot of cash at the end of the matrimonial aisle. The rules? Spend a month on a tropical island (as if you didn't know that) and let a jury of your peers and one high school friend choose your man for life. If you can manage to stay married for a year¬ you get the booty.

Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Audiobook, Fiction, Erotica

346 pages, Paperback

First published March 3, 2006

About the author

Dakota Cassidy is a national bestselling author with over thirty books. She writes laugh-out-loud romantic comedy, grab-some-ice erotic romance, hot and sexy alpha males, paranormal shifters, contemporary kick-ass women, and more.

Invited by Bravo TV, Dakota was the Bravoholic for a week, wherein she snarked the hell out of all the Bravo shows. She received a starred review from Publisher Weekly for Talk Dirty to Me, won an RT Reviewers Choice Award for Kiss and Hell, along with many review site recommended reads and reviewer top pick awards.

Dakota lives in the gorgeous state of Oregon with her real life hero and her dogs, and she loves hearing from readers!

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Reviews

[Jen P · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 1/2 stars I don’t watch bachelor type shows but I still enjoyed the book. I thought instead of so many gratuitous sex scenes from middle to end (although well written) the pages would have been better served letting the reader see more of the antics going on outside the bedroom. I didn’t really feel like I got to know any of the characters really well in the book. But it was still an enjoyable read.

[RaLynn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to like this book but just couldn't get into the constant focus on the main character's focus on her weight, previous weight, maintaining her weight, getting back at people who were mean to her because of her weight, other people's weight...it was constant! It was also difficult to read due to the main character constantly second guessing herself. She decided to do a terrible thing, feels terrible about it, yet feels the person she's doing it to deserves it, and it's just all too much.

[Estella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whose Bride Is She Anyway? is the most popular reality show on TV, featuring a bride, twenty potential hunk 'o licious grooms, a jury, and a whole lot of cash at the end of the matrimonial aisle. The rules? Spend a month on a tropical island (as if you didn't know that) and let a jury of your peers and one high school friend choose your man for life. If you can manage to stay married for a year¬ you get the booty. A million bucks. Tara Douglas doesn't care about the booty. Once taunted and humiliated for being an overweight geek, Tara is now a svelte thirty-something looking for revenge and it ain't as the bride. The bride is Kelsey Little, ex Evanston High cheerleader and all 'round bitch. Kelsey was responsible for Tara's ultimate humiliation in high school. Tara wants to be picked to become jury foreman and head up the groom-picking task force, choosing a groom that will leave Kelsey cryin' in her Miss Clairol. Her quest for revenge takes an unexpected course when she meets August Guthrie, a contestant on the show. August is the forbidden fruit¬--jury members aren't supposed to dip their hand in the hunk jar and Tara could be caught elbow deep, not only in August Guthrie heaven, but in the guilt she begins to feel for ever wanting petty revenge. August, a former dork himself, came to Whose Bride Is She Anyway? to win the woman he thought was his high school wet dream. He wants to prove to Kelsey that he's no longer just the A he helped her get in English and guess what? August ain't a geek anymore either. Then he meets Tara Douglas and all of a sudden, the ex pom-pom queen of August's lusty, adolescent dreams becomes a big, fat, blonde nightmare. Tara and August share chemistry, hell they have biology and trigonometry too, and it's a force that can't be denied, unless little things like sabotage, treachery, deceit, clandestine meetings and an airtight contract that could leave you bankrupt with the paparazzi breathing down your neck for an eternity are a problem?

I found this book to be interesting and a little emotional. There is a lot of sex scenes and fun. What an ideal for a TV show!

[Brandy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good read but a little off from normal

I like many of the books she has written and while this one was still a page turner. The erotic scenes were just not doing it for me. They seemed a bit off from the others and it almost seemed dare I say stereotypical porn lines? I skipped thru most of those and was fine fine with the rest.

[Lyn Jenkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Island Horror

I like the heroine, i don't like the heroine, i like the heroine. The baddy is a bitch and deserves everything she gets. The hero is a jerk, the hero is a hero. Good gravy this book had me confused from startvto finish. Well done Dakota.

[Katrina · Rating 5 out of 5]

heartfelt and hilarious...as any good Dakota Cassidy book should be :) absolutely the best at what she does...I never finish one of her books without smiling

[Brandy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok, I liked the story but I think that it went overboard on the sex scenes. I am not a prude but it was just a bit much. But the story itself was cute and funny.

[Veronique · Rating 2 out of 5]

Way too much body shaming and focus on body weight. Just too cringey and angsty for what's supposed to be an adult romance novel. Not a fun read, although I've enjoyed this trope before.

[Heather in FL · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was really cute. It felt a little slow to start, but at the same time, when I wasn't reading the book, my mind was trying to fill in the blanks of what was going to happen. I was kinda hooked from the start, even though it was initially slow going.

I loved August and Tara both. I got tired of Tara feeling guilty about why she was there, but it kind of showed she couldn't be cold-hearted like Kelsey -- it just wasn't in her. And I was glad that August was able to see that his high school crush was just that -- high school. He'd changed a lot, but Kelsey appeared to have not changed one bit, except for being heavier. Which made me giggle. :-) And August and Tara were on fire together, it was so sweet! And hot. ;-)

I thought it all cleared up at the end almost too tidily, but it was nice to see who had a hand in what happening. And there was a lot of humor, which I love with my smut. Toward the end, the [paraphrased] comment is made "I love you more than my tuba." Ha!

This was my first Dakota Cassidy, and it won't be my last.

[Angie]

Book #201, for 2009

[Mazmum · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this one

[MA · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was rather tedious. I'm actually surprised I finished it.