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Cargando... Vestida De Novia: (Dressed in Wedding) (Harlequin BiancaThe Secret Wedding Dress) (Spanish Edition) (edición 2013)por Ally Blake
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¿Seguiría con ella o volvería a poner tierra de por medio? Paige Danforth no le interesaban las relaciones ni los finales felices. Lo más cerca que estaría del altar sería como dama de honor. Pero al ver un precioso vestido de novia en unas rebajas no pudo resistirse y lo compró sin pensar. Tal vez fuera una señal para volver a salir con un hombre... El eterno viajero Gabe Hamilton deseaba tener una aventura con su irresistible vecina, sin promesas ni compromisos de ningún tipo. Pero ¿cuál sería su reacción al descubrir un traje de novia en el armario de Paige? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The attraction between Gabe and Paige was clear. Their first meeting was in their apartment building's elevator, and they were so focused on each other that noticing other details was difficult for them. I was surprised that either one of them was capable of conversation. The “no-strings-attached sex” part began, I think, within 24 hours of them meeting. Their lust for each other didn't make them completely stupid, however – when they realized that neither one of them had any condoms with them, they postponed the sex they were moments away from having. None of that “we're so hot for each other that we can't stop ourselves, so we'll save the STD/pregnancy freak out for right after.”
Unfortunately, although they were clearly hot for each other, I needed more than that. The book offered me less than I would have liked, and took longer to give it to me than I think it should have. Paige and Gabe's first truly intimate conversation – as in, talking about their personal lives in any kind of detail – didn't happen until halfway through the book. Later in the book, Gabe and Paige blurred the boundaries of their no-strings-attached relationship by going on a date, and Gabe acted like a jerk. I was glad that Paige didn't put up with it and walked out on him before the food had even arrived, but that scene only emphasized how little they knew about each other outside of bed. Gabe did go after her, apologize, and explain himself, but it still bothered me that there was so much about their lives they hadn't talked about yet.
The book had a couple gimmicky elements: the wedding dress and the apartment elevator. Considering that the dress was mentioned in the title, I figured it would play a good-sized role in the book, but in reality the elevator played a bigger part. A more accurate title might have been Love in a Lift (or Love in an Elevator for non-Aussie folks like myself). Paige's purchase of the wedding dress increased her internal conflict about love and marriage, but the dress itself was mostly easy to forget about, and it didn't result in the Big Misunderstanding blowup I was expecting.
The elevator, on the other hand, was front and center in the story. Its tendency to malfunction was brought up a lot. It deposited Paige on Gabe's floor, even when she hadn't intended to go there. An emergency stop gave Paige and Gabe an opportunity to have elevator sex (which squicked me out at the time, because I'm not a fan of sex scenes in public or semi-public places – also, it was one of the few sex scenes in which condom use was not brought up). Paige and Gabe had their first intimate, non-sex-related conversation when the elevator got stuck between floors. Throughout most of the book, this was a matchmaking elevator.
This book was way too short for all the things it had crammed into it: the wedding dress; Paige's fear of love and marriage because her father cheated on her mother; other cheating-related issues; Gabe's fear of love and commitment because the last woman he truly cared for betrayed him, which almost led to his business tanking; the malfunctioning elevator; and Paige's fear that her friend Mae's impending marriage to Clint meant that she'd lose her friend to Clint. It didn't really feel like too much until near the end, when a lot of things came to a head at once. I didn't entirely agree with what some of the characters said about cheating (basically, “if you really love them, you'll find a way to get past it and trust that person again”). Also, I felt that Gabe's final proposal of marriage to Paige came too soon.
I didn't hate this book, but it wasn't the fun, quick read I'd hoped for. It took too long for Paige and Gabe to begin to connect in more than just a sexual way, and I felt they'd only just started to walk down the path of being an actual couple by the end of the book.
(Original review, with read-alikes, posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.) ( )