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Wedding of the Year! #2
The Divorcee Said Yes!
Three Brides, three grooms and they all meet at THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR
Annie and Chase Cooper were reunited, reluctantly, for their daughter's wedding. They even danced together, as the mother and father of the bride should. But, when Dawn got cold feet about embarking on her honeymoon, Chase had an idea. It was important that his daughter and her new husband should start their life together believing that love could endure, so why didn't he and Annie pretend that they were getting back together? Just for a while...
Enjoy the rekindled passion that sizzles between Annie and Chase. Is this to be the reconciliation of the year?
Annie and Chase Cooper were reunited, reluctantly, for their daughter's wedding. They even danced together, as the mother and father of the bride should. But, when Dawn got cold feet about embarking on her honeymoon, Chase had an idea. It was important that his daughter and her new husband should start their life together believing that love could endure, so why didn't he and Annie pretend that they were getting back together? Just for a while...
Enjoy the rekindled passion that sizzles between Annie and Chase. Is this to be the reconciliation of the year?
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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Sandra Marton
674 books540 followersI've been a writer, one way or another, all my life. Before I could read, I made up poems and my mom wrote them down for me. In elementary school, my teachers almost always let me write poems or stories instead of requiring me to do art projects. Always, I dreamed of becoming a published writer...and that dream came true! I write novels about sexy, powerful men and independent-minded women, and what happens when they find each other and fall in love. My books are sexy and romantic, and they've very often full of romantic suspense. I write the kinds of books I love to read, and I hope that makes my readers happy.
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February 22, 2019
Re The Divorcee Said Yes! - Sandra Marton continues on with her Wedding of the Year mini series.
This h and H are the parents of the bride whose wedding sparks this whole story line off. They have been divorced for a few years when the story starts. In this one SM interjects a touch of real world marriage breakdown cliches, straight out of the 1990's women's magazines.
It is the utterly classic tale of two young kids marrying right out of school. There isn't a lot of money or a lot of support, but there is a whole lot of devoted love to begin with.
The h worked menial jobs to finance the H and put him through school. In return the H got an engineering degree and then worked all hours to get the h the material things he felt she had earned for supporting him while they lived in a cozy little grotty flat.
As the years pass and the daughter gets older, the H gets more focused on success and the h has a little midlife crisis. She gave up her own educational opportunities to raise a family and provide financial support, so in search of her inner identity, she starts on an eclectic liberal arts education program.
The H stops spending a lot of time with the h, his business is growing fast and the h isn't really all that impressed by the big house, luxury cars and the designer wardrobe that only a Helen Bianchin h would really appreciate.
The h gets cold emotionally and withdraws from the H, he works more to escape the tense atmosphere and it all goes pear shaped when the h walks into his office at work and sees his perky little secretary in his arms.
The h decides the H is cheating, files for divorce, keeps the daughter and five years on, here we all are.
The H isn't happy his daughter is marrying so young and neither is the h. But the two kids are of age, they have a bit more financial resources than their parents had and young love will have it's way- the kids were pretty cute together too.
It isn't until the mum and dad duty dance at the wedding reception that the sparks really start flying, unfortunately they are NOT the Treacherous Body Syndrome Lurve Force Mojo ones.
The h and H are STILL carrying baggage from their break up and divorce and neither one of them is very kind to the other.
They also both pretend to be heavily involved with other people, but in truth they are not. Both of them have been so focused on their individual businesses, the H in commercial construction and the h in flowers and landscape design, that there hasn't been a lot of time for anything else.
(SM doesn't get detailed, but it is strongly suggested that both the H and the h's new partners are more of the 'they need a social friend date' type. The h was probably celibate and it was strongly hinted the H was too, so people who like rosy glasses won't have to turn the rosy glow factor up to believe people weren't out bopping like bunnies while they were apart.)
The bitterness and the resentment has really piled up. Tho it is obvious these two are utter fools for each other, they have to be really, really snarky while they fume about their personal grudges. SM makes it very clear that both our H and h are hurting and blaming each other and they express that via some very funny verbal banter.
The new bride sees her parents going at it like Siamese Fighting Fish and she starts to panic. If her parents, who always loved each other ever since she could remember, can't make the flame last for more than a few years, what kind of hope does she have?
The bride wants to ditch her newly wedded hubby before they even start the honeymoon and the H and h have to intervene. The H's solution, take the h along with him to scout out an island in the Pacific Northwest that a client is considering building a conference center for executives on.
They will pretend to their daughter that all that sniping on the dance floor was foreplay to a big parental marital reconciliation,thus reaffirming the daughter's faith in True Love while avoiding having to return a roomful of wedding gifts too.
The h and H get to the primitive cabin on the isolated island and after some more verbal banter, they start to actually communicate their separate points of view of how and why their marriage broke down.
The h accepts that the H never cheated, his young secretary was upset about something and the H was trying to help her, but it wasn't an attempt at an illicit lurve club event and the h was looking for a reason to overreact.
The H admits that he was very resentful of the h's attempts at getting her own education and mad that she kept trying to foist liberal arts stuff on him and he hated it. We get more tropey goodness in the form of the nerdy classic scholar h mismatch with the manly athletic beer and bratwurst H revelation.
We learn that neither one wanted to compromise with the other or let each other have separate activities and then find a mutual interest they could do together. Because everyone was feeling like everyone else was neglecting them and being mean to them, it was much easier to just let their love become buried away.
However five years of loneliness and missing the other half of your soul can mellow you out or at least force you to constructively communicate. So the H and h have real discussions and put the past to rest and then the Treacherous Body Syndrome strikes back.
We have a big passion event and the h doesn't even stop when she thinks the H is engaged to someone else. For a few hours, peace finally reigns. But SM needs to drag the drama out, so the h decides to be angry that the H is just using her for a casual pump and dump.
She flees the island the next day and has the standard SM mopey moment for the next several weeks. We get h and BFF discussion about how mad she is at the H for using her, then the BFF carefully points out that guys who are into casual convenience don't call and send roses EVERY SINGLE DAY.
The H, who just wants to get back together with the h, calls again and leaves a really sweet voice mail announcing he is coming after the h. The BFF finally gets the h to pull her head out of her hiney and the mad dash to the big reconciliation is on.
We get a little drama where the h thinks she has missed the H at the airport, but he shows up right at the end of the chapter and the True Love Avowals Forever are on. The h and H both admit that they aren't seriously involved with someone else and both of them decide to build a house on the Pacific Northwest island that they had their passion mojo event on.
The H will buy it and the h will join her business with the H's. They will work together as a company that does construction and landscape design and that will be their mutual interest to keep them fresh together, while they still make time to their own things on occasion.
There is a little epilogue with some sequel baiting for the next and final book and and the daughter and new hubby seem to be really happy together. The H and h do as well, now that they all grew up and learned to communicate, and we can cheerfully close the book on another SM HP HEA.
This one was okay, the initial H and h interactions had some quality snark and the problems that led to their divorce seemed almost TOO real. But the end was a bit of a let down with the h's second sulky moment.
(I felt that the h really jumped to a lot of inaccurate conclusions about the H and her marriage because she felt guilty that she wanted a bit more autonomy in her own life and did not want to be responsible for her own choices.
Same thing with the cheating accusations too, it was easier for this immature h to blame the H and not step up and just explain that her personal goals had changed and what she wanted to do in life, probably because that would require some personal accountability and the h wasn't too keen on that.)
I actually liked the hero more in this one and that is really unusual for me in an SM book. The h was annoying, or maybe I am just older and crankier, but either way it is still a decent HPlandia outing and exclamation point aside, you don't have to run away if you happen upon it.
This h and H are the parents of the bride whose wedding sparks this whole story line off. They have been divorced for a few years when the story starts. In this one SM interjects a touch of real world marriage breakdown cliches, straight out of the 1990's women's magazines.
It is the utterly classic tale of two young kids marrying right out of school. There isn't a lot of money or a lot of support, but there is a whole lot of devoted love to begin with.
The h worked menial jobs to finance the H and put him through school. In return the H got an engineering degree and then worked all hours to get the h the material things he felt she had earned for supporting him while they lived in a cozy little grotty flat.
As the years pass and the daughter gets older, the H gets more focused on success and the h has a little midlife crisis. She gave up her own educational opportunities to raise a family and provide financial support, so in search of her inner identity, she starts on an eclectic liberal arts education program.
The H stops spending a lot of time with the h, his business is growing fast and the h isn't really all that impressed by the big house, luxury cars and the designer wardrobe that only a Helen Bianchin h would really appreciate.
The h gets cold emotionally and withdraws from the H, he works more to escape the tense atmosphere and it all goes pear shaped when the h walks into his office at work and sees his perky little secretary in his arms.
The h decides the H is cheating, files for divorce, keeps the daughter and five years on, here we all are.
The H isn't happy his daughter is marrying so young and neither is the h. But the two kids are of age, they have a bit more financial resources than their parents had and young love will have it's way- the kids were pretty cute together too.
It isn't until the mum and dad duty dance at the wedding reception that the sparks really start flying, unfortunately they are NOT the Treacherous Body Syndrome Lurve Force Mojo ones.
The h and H are STILL carrying baggage from their break up and divorce and neither one of them is very kind to the other.
They also both pretend to be heavily involved with other people, but in truth they are not. Both of them have been so focused on their individual businesses, the H in commercial construction and the h in flowers and landscape design, that there hasn't been a lot of time for anything else.
(SM doesn't get detailed, but it is strongly suggested that both the H and the h's new partners are more of the 'they need a social friend date' type. The h was probably celibate and it was strongly hinted the H was too, so people who like rosy glasses won't have to turn the rosy glow factor up to believe people weren't out bopping like bunnies while they were apart.)
The bitterness and the resentment has really piled up. Tho it is obvious these two are utter fools for each other, they have to be really, really snarky while they fume about their personal grudges. SM makes it very clear that both our H and h are hurting and blaming each other and they express that via some very funny verbal banter.
The new bride sees her parents going at it like Siamese Fighting Fish and she starts to panic. If her parents, who always loved each other ever since she could remember, can't make the flame last for more than a few years, what kind of hope does she have?
The bride wants to ditch her newly wedded hubby before they even start the honeymoon and the H and h have to intervene. The H's solution, take the h along with him to scout out an island in the Pacific Northwest that a client is considering building a conference center for executives on.
They will pretend to their daughter that all that sniping on the dance floor was foreplay to a big parental marital reconciliation,thus reaffirming the daughter's faith in True Love while avoiding having to return a roomful of wedding gifts too.
The h and H get to the primitive cabin on the isolated island and after some more verbal banter, they start to actually communicate their separate points of view of how and why their marriage broke down.
The h accepts that the H never cheated, his young secretary was upset about something and the H was trying to help her, but it wasn't an attempt at an illicit lurve club event and the h was looking for a reason to overreact.
The H admits that he was very resentful of the h's attempts at getting her own education and mad that she kept trying to foist liberal arts stuff on him and he hated it. We get more tropey goodness in the form of the nerdy classic scholar h mismatch with the manly athletic beer and bratwurst H revelation.
We learn that neither one wanted to compromise with the other or let each other have separate activities and then find a mutual interest they could do together. Because everyone was feeling like everyone else was neglecting them and being mean to them, it was much easier to just let their love become buried away.
However five years of loneliness and missing the other half of your soul can mellow you out or at least force you to constructively communicate. So the H and h have real discussions and put the past to rest and then the Treacherous Body Syndrome strikes back.
We have a big passion event and the h doesn't even stop when she thinks the H is engaged to someone else. For a few hours, peace finally reigns. But SM needs to drag the drama out, so the h decides to be angry that the H is just using her for a casual pump and dump.
She flees the island the next day and has the standard SM mopey moment for the next several weeks. We get h and BFF discussion about how mad she is at the H for using her, then the BFF carefully points out that guys who are into casual convenience don't call and send roses EVERY SINGLE DAY.
The H, who just wants to get back together with the h, calls again and leaves a really sweet voice mail announcing he is coming after the h. The BFF finally gets the h to pull her head out of her hiney and the mad dash to the big reconciliation is on.
We get a little drama where the h thinks she has missed the H at the airport, but he shows up right at the end of the chapter and the True Love Avowals Forever are on. The h and H both admit that they aren't seriously involved with someone else and both of them decide to build a house on the Pacific Northwest island that they had their passion mojo event on.
The H will buy it and the h will join her business with the H's. They will work together as a company that does construction and landscape design and that will be their mutual interest to keep them fresh together, while they still make time to their own things on occasion.
There is a little epilogue with some sequel baiting for the next and final book and and the daughter and new hubby seem to be really happy together. The H and h do as well, now that they all grew up and learned to communicate, and we can cheerfully close the book on another SM HP HEA.
This one was okay, the initial H and h interactions had some quality snark and the problems that led to their divorce seemed almost TOO real. But the end was a bit of a let down with the h's second sulky moment.
(I felt that the h really jumped to a lot of inaccurate conclusions about the H and her marriage because she felt guilty that she wanted a bit more autonomy in her own life and did not want to be responsible for her own choices.
Same thing with the cheating accusations too, it was easier for this immature h to blame the H and not step up and just explain that her personal goals had changed and what she wanted to do in life, probably because that would require some personal accountability and the h wasn't too keen on that.)
I actually liked the hero more in this one and that is really unusual for me in an SM book. The h was annoying, or maybe I am just older and crankier, but either way it is still a decent HPlandia outing and exclamation point aside, you don't have to run away if you happen upon it.
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April 5, 2017
This is something different . H and h are divorced for 5 years , now they are meeting at their teenage daughter's wedding. Their daughter went all through wedding,No bridal-jitters. Then she sees her parents fighting after their waltz and it struck her like lightning that people fall out of love after a few years and they turn bitter,hating each other like her parents . So she is afraid of spoiling what she now has with her new-husband and want to end things before it develops too strong and hurt more .
H and h are at each-other's neck almost all through the wedding and after that . They represented a typical divorced couple who are still in love with each other and I loved their banter . They pretend that they are engaged to other people just for the sake of sheer torture.
They both made mistakes in the past, like any other couple instead of sitting and talking they grew farther away, h turning cold in bed , H spending all his time in his office. But when h finds him with his young secretary in his office, she files for divorce . Of course he didn't cheat her , she is a pigheaded, God she has some super-imagination levels which were just too bad . She misunderstood his every motive , though I gotto agree he didn't explain either . You know this is the usual we-still-love-eachother-but-cant-live-with-eachother thing .
Whatever , I enjoyed reading it and I loved H's confession, h loves poetry and art he is totally dumb when it comes to that. He may not use Shakespeare's quote to propose her but he made up with all the raw emotion .
"Annie," Chase said, his voice roughening, "dammit, babe, I love you! If you really want the pansy poet instead of me, you're gonna have to look me in the eye and tell me so. You're gonna have to say, 'Chase, I don't love you anymore. I don't want to marry you again and live with you forever...'" Chase drew a ragged breath. "Dammit," he said, "I'm no good at this! You want sensitive, stick with the poet. You want a guy who's never stopped loving you, who'll love you until the day he dies, you don't have to look any further than me."
It was a 3 star , extra star just for his final outburst ...err I mean confession . And it was on voice mail so he didn't know she was listening to him that made it even more special . You gotto read it to understand what I mean . Not to forget , this one got a beautiful Epilogue as well .
H and h are at each-other's neck almost all through the wedding and after that . They represented a typical divorced couple who are still in love with each other and I loved their banter . They pretend that they are engaged to other people just for the sake of sheer torture.
They both made mistakes in the past, like any other couple instead of sitting and talking they grew farther away, h turning cold in bed , H spending all his time in his office. But when h finds him with his young secretary in his office, she files for divorce . Of course he didn't cheat her , she is a pigheaded, God she has some super-imagination levels which were just too bad . She misunderstood his every motive , though I gotto agree he didn't explain either . You know this is the usual we-still-love-eachother-but-cant-live-with-eachother thing .
Whatever , I enjoyed reading it and I loved H's confession, h loves poetry and art he is totally dumb when it comes to that. He may not use Shakespeare's quote to propose her but he made up with all the raw emotion .
"Annie," Chase said, his voice roughening, "dammit, babe, I love you! If you really want the pansy poet instead of me, you're gonna have to look me in the eye and tell me so. You're gonna have to say, 'Chase, I don't love you anymore. I don't want to marry you again and live with you forever...'" Chase drew a ragged breath. "Dammit," he said, "I'm no good at this! You want sensitive, stick with the poet. You want a guy who's never stopped loving you, who'll love you until the day he dies, you don't have to look any further than me."
It was a 3 star , extra star just for his final outburst ...err I mean confession . And it was on voice mail so he didn't know she was listening to him that made it even more special . You gotto read it to understand what I mean . Not to forget , this one got a beautiful Epilogue as well .
February 23, 2019
Adored this one! The heroine is a florist! The hero is very appealing--grumpy, still madly in love with his ex-wife, super jealous.
Not a lot of conflict here, just H/h working their way back to each other.
Also loved the epilogue! So many happy endings.
Grade: A
Not a lot of conflict here, just H/h working their way back to each other.
Also loved the epilogue! So many happy endings.
Grade: A
May 3, 2016
Cute reunion story, they really loved each other - but after awhile they stopped communicating.
January 31, 2018
I had to stop reading when Heroine accidentally took that flight to Seattle with Hero because Hero has an extra ticket in his name. That particular plot device so completely would not work with airport security today.
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December 28, 2021Annie and Chase Cooper were reunited, reluctantly, for their daughter's wedding. They even danced together, as the mother and father of the bride should. But, when Dawn got cold feet about embarking on her honeymoon, Chase had an idea. It was important that his daughter and her new husband should start their life together believing that love could endure, so why didn't he and Annie pretend that they were getting back together? Just for a while.
January 30, 2017
Its a good story. A little bit different, parents who are divorced attend their daughters wedding and after she sees how much they can't stand being around each other after initially loving each other so much she doubts her own marriage. This leads to her parents confronting the issues that led to their break up.
July 4, 2014
liked it a lot ......... the reunion was splendid....
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September 1, 2016Miniseries: The Wedding of the Year
October 11, 2016
very nice book
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