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The Bridesmaid Chronicles #2
First Kiss
Former Miss Texas and struggling actress Kiki Sonntag attempts to give her brother's soon-to-be wedding a classy makeover, while hiding out in Manhattan's coolest new hotel to escape her latest tabloid scandal and enjoying some special "room service" with the hotel's playboy owner. Original.
304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 5, 2005
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Kylie Adams
32 books27 followersNobody writes novels that are Hot Wild Crazy Sexy Cool like USA TODAY bestselling author Kylie Adams. Her books are bubbling over with steamy passion, state-of-the-trend glamour, wicked humor, and beautiful people living life so fast that 100 mph is standing still.
Her books have been translated into several languages, and she is known for giving her readers a savvy insider's knowledge of the habits, haunts, and histrionics of not only the gorgeously privileged but the nakedly ambitious wannabes nipping at their Jimmy Choo heels.
Major influences include Jackie Collins, whose HOLLYWOOD WIVES inspired Kylie to become a writers, and Jacqueline Susann, whose VALLEY OF THE DOLLS inspired Kylie to actually finish her first novel, and everything-but-the-kitchen-sink disaster that was NEVER published!
Kylie lives in the Southwest. Her hobbies include exercise, spoiled pets, celebrity gossip, building iPod playlists, Blackberry obsessing, TiVo viewing management, telling friends and family what to do with their lives/relationships, and decorating plans for a dream condo.
Her books have been translated into several languages, and she is known for giving her readers a savvy insider's knowledge of the habits, haunts, and histrionics of not only the gorgeously privileged but the nakedly ambitious wannabes nipping at their Jimmy Choo heels.
Major influences include Jackie Collins, whose HOLLYWOOD WIVES inspired Kylie to become a writers, and Jacqueline Susann, whose VALLEY OF THE DOLLS inspired Kylie to actually finish her first novel, and everything-but-the-kitchen-sink disaster that was NEVER published!
Kylie lives in the Southwest. Her hobbies include exercise, spoiled pets, celebrity gossip, building iPod playlists, Blackberry obsessing, TiVo viewing management, telling friends and family what to do with their lives/relationships, and decorating plans for a dream condo.
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February 25, 2019
Did not age well... Kiki was obnoxious as hell, I kept waiting for her to grow or be something other than vapid as hell...she does not. I don't understand what Fab sees in her other than her tits and why oh why would anyone want to be friends with her?!
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July 28, 2011
After such a terrific start to this series, this is where it stumbled - big time. Instead of Texas we’re in New York where Kiki, sister of the groom, lives and plays. She’s a former beauty queen, now an actress still trying to make it big. She’s also a very shallow and selfish person, one that I hardly liked at all.
Two friends share the spotlight with her in this book, and this is the first of the silliness that did the story no favors, one friend’s name is Suzi-Suzi. I don’t know, that bugged the hell out of me when reading. Next are the antics that Kiki gets into, one of which is she takes over Julia’s wedding preparations without even asking, making the most awful suggestions, and the other is the main part of the story and how she meets the hero.
While shopping with her friends, they stumble upon a popular married Hollywood couple who are expecting their first child. A chain of events ends with a member of the paparazzi snapping a suggestive pic of Kiki and the husband. This, of course, is front page news, accusing Kiki of being a homewrecker, and the media then hounds her every step. She ends up at The Affair, a club of sorts where you can literally go to to have an affair. Okaaaay. The place is run by Fab, who is often in the tabloids himself, always with a different beauty on his arm every time.
Kiki wiles her way into one of his suites to let the fervor over her notoriety blow over and they end up spending time with each other. There is an instant attraction between them and Fab would like to explore that. He puts up with such ridiculousness from this woman. Even the sexual banter didn’t work due to her attitude. The actual love scenes themselves were good, mainly because Fab is involved. I did like his character, what I got to see of it. He’s not in this book very much, making it more chick lit-y than romance. And I really don’t care for chick lit all that much. Hence, my dislike of the book, I guess.
Of course, things eventually work themselves out, Kiki and Fab fall in love and decide to get married. Not without Kiki fobbing off all of her friends on Fab, giving them jobs in his organizations without even asking him. Even at the end the woman is full of herself. The only reason the grade for this book isn’t lower is Fab, the few times he had interaction with anyone. Other than that, I could have done without reading the darned thing.
See my complete review at http://www.goodbadandunread.com
Two friends share the spotlight with her in this book, and this is the first of the silliness that did the story no favors, one friend’s name is Suzi-Suzi. I don’t know, that bugged the hell out of me when reading. Next are the antics that Kiki gets into, one of which is she takes over Julia’s wedding preparations without even asking, making the most awful suggestions, and the other is the main part of the story and how she meets the hero.
While shopping with her friends, they stumble upon a popular married Hollywood couple who are expecting their first child. A chain of events ends with a member of the paparazzi snapping a suggestive pic of Kiki and the husband. This, of course, is front page news, accusing Kiki of being a homewrecker, and the media then hounds her every step. She ends up at The Affair, a club of sorts where you can literally go to to have an affair. Okaaaay. The place is run by Fab, who is often in the tabloids himself, always with a different beauty on his arm every time.
Kiki wiles her way into one of his suites to let the fervor over her notoriety blow over and they end up spending time with each other. There is an instant attraction between them and Fab would like to explore that. He puts up with such ridiculousness from this woman. Even the sexual banter didn’t work due to her attitude. The actual love scenes themselves were good, mainly because Fab is involved. I did like his character, what I got to see of it. He’s not in this book very much, making it more chick lit-y than romance. And I really don’t care for chick lit all that much. Hence, my dislike of the book, I guess.
Of course, things eventually work themselves out, Kiki and Fab fall in love and decide to get married. Not without Kiki fobbing off all of her friends on Fab, giving them jobs in his organizations without even asking him. Even at the end the woman is full of herself. The only reason the grade for this book isn’t lower is Fab, the few times he had interaction with anyone. Other than that, I could have done without reading the darned thing.
See my complete review at http://www.goodbadandunread.com
December 23, 2012
I couldn't finish reading it. It was horrible! I don't know how much of a review this could be since I literally stopped reading at Chapter 3 or 4, but I couldn't bring myself to continue reading it...
If you enjoy contemporary romance literature with insipid heroines, then this might be your read. I noticed that other reviews mentioned liking the hero, but I didn't read far enough into the book to actually GET TO enjoy the hero! Seriously, the heroine is a 34 year old, washed up, spoiled, shallow, and pathetic actress/former beauty queen who can't seem to maintain an actual job, let alone a long conversation/dialogue without mentioning celebrities, money, and her next shopping spree.
I literally felt like I was reading the autobiography of Heidi Montag (post plastic surgery). DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME. I understand if you want a book to read that will make the day go by quicker, or just as a fun vacation book to read, but if you're looking for depth and an actual plot line that you can immerse yourself into WHILE on vacation, then move onto the next book.
It's such a disappointment since my interest in this series was peaked by my reading of the first book, but even then I only rated the first book 3 out of 5 stars. Maybe I'm a harsh critic, but I think that as an author, Kylie Adams should have made her characters more like-able. After all, I think the whole point of reading a romance book is so that you can empathize and possibly pretend that you are the hero/heroine. I personally read to do just that, to literally lose myself in a fantasy world with the perfect hero, but in order to do so, as an educated, hard-working woman, I seriously can't take the heroine seriously enough in "First Kiss" to even get to enjoy the hero!
The title of the book also made me annoyed. Maybe because I haven't read through the entire book yet, so I don't know the reason for the title, but at least in "First Date" I understood why the title was chosen and I actually thought it was clever and cute! But "First Kiss" - unless the heroine was someone who hadn't been kissed yet, then I can't find the cleverness in it! Especially based on what my understanding of her character was within the first couple of pages. AWFUL.
UGHHH, I hate not finishing books, but I couldn't even bring myself to continue reading. I LITERALLY THOUGHT MY BRAIN WAS TURNING INTO MUSH.
If you enjoy contemporary romance literature with insipid heroines, then this might be your read. I noticed that other reviews mentioned liking the hero, but I didn't read far enough into the book to actually GET TO enjoy the hero! Seriously, the heroine is a 34 year old, washed up, spoiled, shallow, and pathetic actress/former beauty queen who can't seem to maintain an actual job, let alone a long conversation/dialogue without mentioning celebrities, money, and her next shopping spree.
I literally felt like I was reading the autobiography of Heidi Montag (post plastic surgery). DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME. I understand if you want a book to read that will make the day go by quicker, or just as a fun vacation book to read, but if you're looking for depth and an actual plot line that you can immerse yourself into WHILE on vacation, then move onto the next book.
It's such a disappointment since my interest in this series was peaked by my reading of the first book, but even then I only rated the first book 3 out of 5 stars. Maybe I'm a harsh critic, but I think that as an author, Kylie Adams should have made her characters more like-able. After all, I think the whole point of reading a romance book is so that you can empathize and possibly pretend that you are the hero/heroine. I personally read to do just that, to literally lose myself in a fantasy world with the perfect hero, but in order to do so, as an educated, hard-working woman, I seriously can't take the heroine seriously enough in "First Kiss" to even get to enjoy the hero!
The title of the book also made me annoyed. Maybe because I haven't read through the entire book yet, so I don't know the reason for the title, but at least in "First Date" I understood why the title was chosen and I actually thought it was clever and cute! But "First Kiss" - unless the heroine was someone who hadn't been kissed yet, then I can't find the cleverness in it! Especially based on what my understanding of her character was within the first couple of pages. AWFUL.
UGHHH, I hate not finishing books, but I couldn't even bring myself to continue reading. I LITERALLY THOUGHT MY BRAIN WAS TURNING INTO MUSH.
December 6, 2013
The last time I read of a heroine who was this much of a self-absorbed ditz, I was reading a book by Linda Howard.
Ok, so our heroine was out clothes shopping (while unemployed and broke) with her friends. She runs into some singer she has a crush on, a charm falls off her bracelet, some tabloid photographer snaps a picture of her retrieving said charm under the guy's chair. Naturally it gets published with the worse possible spin. She bolts later and ends up in a hotel constructed for the sole purpose of illicit affaires. Hmmm… And there's no photographer hanging outside said place recording who goes in and out? Can't imagine it being that discreet if everyone knows about it.
Over the next few days, we're treated to her drama, her attraction to the owner - the H, more of her drama, and, for grins and giggles(?) her emails to some wedding planner or something back in Texas - essentially trying to plan her brother's wedding for him - some other time/place.
At least Blaire (the Howard ditz) had a little intelligence or…something.
There were moments of humor, but also many moments of…how many more pages in this book?
Ok, so our heroine was out clothes shopping (while unemployed and broke) with her friends. She runs into some singer she has a crush on, a charm falls off her bracelet, some tabloid photographer snaps a picture of her retrieving said charm under the guy's chair. Naturally it gets published with the worse possible spin. She bolts later and ends up in a hotel constructed for the sole purpose of illicit affaires. Hmmm… And there's no photographer hanging outside said place recording who goes in and out? Can't imagine it being that discreet if everyone knows about it.
Over the next few days, we're treated to her drama, her attraction to the owner - the H, more of her drama, and, for grins and giggles(?) her emails to some wedding planner or something back in Texas - essentially trying to plan her brother's wedding for him - some other time/place.
At least Blaire (the Howard ditz) had a little intelligence or…something.
There were moments of humor, but also many moments of…how many more pages in this book?
October 30, 2014
Kiki Sonntag left Texas for New York in hopes to never have to return, but she didn't anticipate her brother getting married...to someone from New Jersey.
It's bad enough she's already in 4 other weddings this year, but to think that now she has yet another one to be in. It is just horrible, at least until the gossip columns in New York start spreading stories about Kiki and a misinterpreted photo.
Now she's hiding out in a hotel known for romance and affairs (in fact that's the name of the hotel: Affair), and things are getting hot and heavy with the owner, Fab.
Looks like Julia and Sydney aren't the only ones to find love before the Texan wedding of century.
It's bad enough she's already in 4 other weddings this year, but to think that now she has yet another one to be in. It is just horrible, at least until the gossip columns in New York start spreading stories about Kiki and a misinterpreted photo.
Now she's hiding out in a hotel known for romance and affairs (in fact that's the name of the hotel: Affair), and things are getting hot and heavy with the owner, Fab.
Looks like Julia and Sydney aren't the only ones to find love before the Texan wedding of century.
November 15, 2013
page 229 :
"Making and keeping friends is not easy, though. Especially for girls. The whole Sex and the City vibe is practically a fantasy. Do you have a Charlotte, Miranda, and Samantha in your life? Most girls don't. First of all, there's the whole issue of time. I mean, with work and everything, there just aren't endless hours available to sit at a coffee shop and deconstruct every millisecond of life like they do on that show!"
"Making and keeping friends is not easy, though. Especially for girls. The whole Sex and the City vibe is practically a fantasy. Do you have a Charlotte, Miranda, and Samantha in your life? Most girls don't. First of all, there's the whole issue of time. I mean, with work and everything, there just aren't endless hours available to sit at a coffee shop and deconstruct every millisecond of life like they do on that show!"
February 25, 2008
2/24/2008 - What a funny book! It was very different from the first book since this one is about one of the other bridesmaids, but it was just as good. AND...the last few pages really made me smile since there was a moral to the story. It summed up the book and the thought of friendship within the last 3 pages.
July 19, 2014
Into the mind of a beautiful gold digger. You actually learn from reading about why young sexy girls marry rich sleazy old guys. Aside from the last book this was also very bad. I suggest the book 1 & 3 but Karen Kendall but the rest... not even worth the penny. Its really like one of those terrible harlequin book novels... not worth it.
March 21, 2013
Ughhhh I wanted to shoot myself! The main character is so freaking self absorbed! Literally super shallow and egotistical! Thankfully it was a very easy read.. I would not recommend this book at all. This book was absolutely awful!
June 2, 2007
super cheesy! but still readable
June 6, 2007
super cheese but readable. "air kisses"
June 24, 2009
I loved this series and I loved that each book was written by a different author but they still clicked together! I enjoyed each and every crazy love story that these books created!
January 10, 2011
Least favorite of the series
July 7, 2014
not that great. kiki annoys me :P
August 12, 2009
First Kiss
Kylie Adams
Contempory Romance
277 pages
copyright: 2005
isbn: 0-451-21581-8
Kylie Adams
Contempory Romance
277 pages
copyright: 2005
isbn: 0-451-21581-8
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