Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Scarlet Lies (The Scarlet Series)por Lani Wendt Young
Ninguno Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesScarlet Series (1)
Lies are beautiful - when the truth hurts. Sixteen years ago, Scarlet's family sent her away in disgrace. She's been back once - with disastrous consequences. Now, her little sister is getting married and Scarlet's headed home once more. Will this be the reunion she's always longed for? Or will the lies of her childhood entangle her once more in their beautiful embrace? She has a nightmarish fear of flying and she's escorting her sister's wedding dress through three different time zones. He's the tall, dark and handsome stranger that gets in her way... What happens when Scarlet has to go home to be bridesmaid to her least favorite little sister, (who loves to remind everyone she's a former beauty Queen EVERY OTHER MINUTE?) Can she survive three weeks of tropical heat and mosquitos, droves of busybody relatives all wanting to tell her WHY she's still single as she endures the wedding from hell? Six hundred guests, three wedding dresses, twenty-four cake tiers, fifteen bridesmaids, a mother on a mission to makeover her daughter who 'lacks ambition,' and ONE deliciously divine man who alternately renders her speechless then drives her to outrage - all add up to a recipe for disaster. Or does it? More than 'just a romance', this poignant story about the tangled connections between mothers, daughters and sisters - speaks with compelling insight and humor, of inherited trauma, and of desire and deception.Scarlet Lies is the first in a three book series. Followed by Scarlet Secrets, and Scarlet Redemption. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNinguno
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
This is a chick-lit, rom-com featuring big, beautiful brown girl Scarlet, by Samoan author, Lani Wendt Young. Scarlet had left Samoa years before, her family believing she had brought shame on them. She is returning now for her sister’s wedding and meets a handsome stranger Jackson on the plane. The family she returns to is full of warmth and affection but also petty squabbles, sibling rivalry and plenty of blunt advice for the plus-sized and single Scarlet.
Rom-com is not really my genre of choice but on the positive side at least this one gives some insight into Samoan family life. Scarlet also puts a different spin on romance with her detailed sweet food analogies. On the negative side I don’t really enjoy the insta-love (well more precisely lust) trope and the need to be perpetually reiterating the hero’s physical traits every time he appears. I was also sad that Scarlet felt a handsome man wouldn’t be interested in a fat girl. At least he proved her wrong on this front. There is only really one sex scene in this book and there are suggestions of previous sexual trauma in Scarlet’s teenage years, but the details are not stated. Overall this was a good story, if I’m going to read rom-com let it be Samoan! 3.5 stars for me. ( )