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Three Weddings and a Reunion #4
Forbidden Temptation
Sex changed everything…
After marrying off her sisters, Ruby Lockhart could finally concentrate on her career. After all, love wasn't in the cards for the pragmatic Ruby. Only she could wake up the morning after her sister's wedding with a gorgeous, sexy man in her bed and have him be her best friend!
Mr. Sexy―aka Luther Biggens, ex-navy SEAL―had always been Ruby's rock. Now he was her problem. She couldn't look at him without remembering the ways he'd pleasured her. More troubling than how she'd ended up in bed with Luther was that Ruby wanted to do it again… and again….
After marrying off her sisters, Ruby Lockhart could finally concentrate on her career. After all, love wasn't in the cards for the pragmatic Ruby. Only she could wake up the morning after her sister's wedding with a gorgeous, sexy man in her bed and have him be her best friend!
Mr. Sexy―aka Luther Biggens, ex-navy SEAL―had always been Ruby's rock. Now he was her problem. She couldn't look at him without remembering the ways he'd pleasured her. More troubling than how she'd ended up in bed with Luther was that Ruby wanted to do it again… and again….
288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
About the author
Gwynne Forster
72 books133 followersGwynne Forster (1922-2015) was the pseudonym of American novelist, short fiction writer, demographer, and sociologist Gwendolyn Johnson-Acsadi. Forster was best known as an early innovator of the African American Romance fiction tradition. Forster was a prolific writer who authored more than 50 books, as well as multiple studies in the field of demography. Forster won a wide readership with her novels and garnered awards, including the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and the Black Writers Alliance Gold Pen Award.
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August 26, 2007
Can You Say ANTI-CLIMACTIC
I CAN NOT tell you how much I was looking forward to the 4th and final installment in the "Three Weddings and a Reunion" Series, and how disappointed I was after reading it. The first three novels had me TOTALLY captivated and thoroughly enjoying the Lockhart sisters and their circle of friends. However, I feel like in one read Mrs. Forster took all that away. The dialogue between the characters was totally unrealistic, it often came off as stilted and unnatural. The characters that were so well-developed and had such depth in the previous installments suddenly became these cardboard like cut-outs that I just didn't seem to even know or enjoy at all in this novel. Although, the plot started off well, halfway through the book I tired of the way the romance was developing between Luther and Ruby. This novel definitely lacked sensuality, and most of the love scenes were more technical than romantic. I just wasn't emotionally caught up in this couples "romantic drama". At first, Luther and Ruby appeared to be making wonderful progress in their new relationship and then something they said or didn't say would have them right back at square one again, and we'd have to start all over again with the doubts and "silly" misunderstandings. It was frustrating to see the "eldest" couple acting like immature teenagers. As long as Ruby and Luther knew each other, their relationship should have been a lot more stable. To me it seemed like the author was grasping for issues between the couple as a way to make the the story work and in doing so made the story TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE, and EXTREMELY slow and dull. Sad to say, I was actually relieved when this book finally came to an end!
I CAN NOT tell you how much I was looking forward to the 4th and final installment in the "Three Weddings and a Reunion" Series, and how disappointed I was after reading it. The first three novels had me TOTALLY captivated and thoroughly enjoying the Lockhart sisters and their circle of friends. However, I feel like in one read Mrs. Forster took all that away. The dialogue between the characters was totally unrealistic, it often came off as stilted and unnatural. The characters that were so well-developed and had such depth in the previous installments suddenly became these cardboard like cut-outs that I just didn't seem to even know or enjoy at all in this novel. Although, the plot started off well, halfway through the book I tired of the way the romance was developing between Luther and Ruby. This novel definitely lacked sensuality, and most of the love scenes were more technical than romantic. I just wasn't emotionally caught up in this couples "romantic drama". At first, Luther and Ruby appeared to be making wonderful progress in their new relationship and then something they said or didn't say would have them right back at square one again, and we'd have to start all over again with the doubts and "silly" misunderstandings. It was frustrating to see the "eldest" couple acting like immature teenagers. As long as Ruby and Luther knew each other, their relationship should have been a lot more stable. To me it seemed like the author was grasping for issues between the couple as a way to make the the story work and in doing so made the story TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE, and EXTREMELY slow and dull. Sad to say, I was actually relieved when this book finally came to an end!
March 15, 2020
So Not a Good Idea!
All of the back and forth between these two just prolonged the plot. I found myself going back and re-reading parts because some of it didn't make sense in the 1st or 2nd reading. Couldn't wait for it to end. Will never purchase a series like this again.
So Not Gwen Forster!
All of the back and forth between these two just prolonged the plot. I found myself going back and re-reading parts because some of it didn't make sense in the 1st or 2nd reading. Couldn't wait for it to end. Will never purchase a series like this again.
So Not Gwen Forster!
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March 19, 2020This book draaaaaaags. The tension and angst is great for a few pages then it gets repetitive and annoying.
January 1, 2023
HORRIBLE...I thought this book would never end; the way the other authors in this series had portrayed these characters I was really looking forward to reading this book, unfortunately it was a let down. With the 26 year history these characters had, this book could have been so amazing; however the author had them acting if they had just met. For goodness sake they have known each other for two and a half decades all they had to do was sit down and talk about why she ran out on him the morning after. The conversation between Ruby and Luther that took place on page 161 should have taken place in chapter three and with that big mystery solved their relationship could have bloomed into something beautiful instead of a PAINFUL dialogue of who did who wrong. If I had purchased this in paperback instead of digital I probably would have burned it after I finished reading it.
May 29, 2023
Excruciating and agonizing!
The positive first, the first time reading the author's work. The writing style and grammar was superb. Needed and editor and/or publishing guru!
75% of this story was babble and jabber back and forth. If I was , "Ruby and Luther" I would have thrown in the towel. The prattle was depressing and a chore to finish the book. I was happy when the author wrote about the reception or party. The first three books of this series was great.
The positive first, the first time reading the author's work. The writing style and grammar was superb. Needed and editor and/or publishing guru!
75% of this story was babble and jabber back and forth. If I was , "Ruby and Luther" I would have thrown in the towel. The prattle was depressing and a chore to finish the book. I was happy when the author wrote about the reception or party. The first three books of this series was great.
August 9, 2017
3.85 stars
Good read for the second time!
Good read for the second time!
December 18, 2011
It's been a minute since I read this book but I do recall feeling that what started off as a wonderful continuity with the first 3 books ended being wrecked with a horrible 4th entry. Loved the first 3. Hated this one.
Want to Read
October 10, 2007I haven't read it.
September 21, 2012
This was a beautiful book and series.
January 19, 2016
No. No. No.
April 12, 2017
So Disappointed
I'm so disappointed with how Ruby's and Luther's story was written. Such a let down. Ruby and Luther showed no maturity of persons who were instrumental in her sisters lives. This was a long and drawn out story. I fault the publisher.
I'm so disappointed with how Ruby's and Luther's story was written. Such a let down. Ruby and Luther showed no maturity of persons who were instrumental in her sisters lives. This was a long and drawn out story. I fault the publisher.
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