It all started off with a question.
Will you marry me?
Lissette: Losing her job and focusing on her “craft”
Lissette finds herself in despair. The bills are piling up, her boyfriend has
dumped her due to circumstances she can’t control. To top it all off she sees
her ex and his new beautiful fiancé and has to lean on them for a ride. Could
her life get any worse?
Luke: A man with a few demons of his own and a recurring
past relationship has been living his life in limbo for a few years. A mounting
debt and a brother who considers himself the next big director, Luke finds
himself in a situation that just may change his life.
The Question:
Matt (the brother) has an idea for a social
experiment/documentary. Comparing the lives of two married couples one of his
douche bag brother Nick and his fiancé Mel who have been engaged over time and
are now getting married. And that of a newly engaged couple who don’t know each
other but decide to get married almost an arranged marriage of sorts.
Luke strikes out asking woman after woman this one not
so simple question until he meets Lissette. Broken, alone and just tired she
say yes much to Luke’s surprise. Fast forward because this is a very long story
they get married. The actual wedding was comical and both families dealt with
this quickie wedding in their own way. I will say that Lissette family was very
involved in her life so much that she seeks their approval a little too much. This
story struck me as Y.A. (young adult) both characters just seemed very young
and made foolish mistakes. But fools do rush in!
As a reader I thought too much attention was given to
Luke and his ex. Cat versus the building relationship with him and his wife. Lissette
shared everything with him painful details about her past and condition yet he withheld
much from her like his relationship with his ex. Luke seemed very indecisive and
a bit weak at times. The hospital scene for me was a deal breaker he constantly
put his wife last until she gave him no choice but to put her first. This book
was a little slow moving and had too many unnecessary details. Some things
should have been explored more than others. For instance the situation between
Lissette and Cat could have been explored more instead Lissette draws within
herself and the scene is dismissed.
Because of her past Lissette is a little insecure. She
ignored a lot of stuff with Luke with the reasoning of, “He’s mine.” She just wanted to be happy. But you can be
happy with someone and still not have joy. This book although slow at times is
packed with emotional drama. Everything does eventually become full circle.
When the truth finally came out Lissette mentions that she felt like an outsider
I would have thought she would have felt betrayed. After all her husband has
shared her private details with the very woman who has caused her trauma and
untold pain and his only reasoning is that Cat lost so much. I was waiting for
Luke to show his love for Lissette and stand up for her. The back and forth with Cat was a little annoying
it took up too much of the story but I suppose she plays a major part in this
story as the antagonist. I do like that the story is told from dual p.o.v.’s
that way the reader gets to see how decisions made in this relationship effect
both parties. One of the things I loved about this story was the epilogue. I
liked that this story explored the topics of what if’s. I await Matt and
Brooklyn’s story next. Please judge this book for yourself and not based on
this one review.
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