{"id":39309,"date":"2018-12-24T08:49:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T13:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=39309"},"modified":"2018-12-24T08:49:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T13:49:54","slug":"review-one-and-only-bridesmaids-behaving-badly-1-by-jenny-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=39309","title":{"rendered":"Review: One and Only (Bridesmaids Behaving Badly, #1) by Jenny Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Freaking fantastic!<\/b><\/p>\n

4.5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sweet, sexy, beautifully romantic and heartfelt but also laugh-out-loud funny and so much fun! This is the perfect guilty pleasure read, and I devoured it!<\/p>\n

We are introduced to Jane Denning while she is trying on her Xena costume for Comic-con (I love her already). She is one of a group of four best friends, and is in the middle of bridesmaid duties for one of them, who has turned into a control-freak, DIY-mad bridezilla. Desperate to escape the ever-increasing demands placed upon her by the bride, she happily accepts the task of babysitting the groom\u2019s new-in-town bad boy brother in the lead up to the wedding to ensure that he stays out of trouble. Simple, right?<\/p>\n

Cameron MacKinnon has just returned from an overseas deployment and he is ready to embrace everything that he has missed – sex, alcohol, home-cooked food and wild adventures. Unfortunately he has been landed with an uptight babysitter, but he soon learns that the super-responsible Jane actually has a wild streak of her own, and as he drags her along on his reintroduction to civilian life, he realises that loosening her up is a whole lot of fun that he wasn\u2019t expecting.<\/p>\n

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I LOVE this relationship! Smart and funny with fantastical banter, Jane and Cameron may appear to be an unlikely match, but the more time they spend together, the more they get to know each other, and the build-up of their attraction is fantastic!<\/p>\n

Jane is such a fantastic character. She\u2019s smart, sensible and relatable, and her nerdiness is absolutely charming. She\u2019s blown away by Cameron from the first moment she sees him, and though she\u2019s initially with him out of a sense of duty (and to escape wedding-planning hell), she actually likes his company, and the lines begin to blur as she discovers that spending time with him isn\u2019t such a chore after all.<\/p>\n

And Cameron may have a bad reputation, but not all is at it seems, and he is completely misunderstood by pretty much everybody in his life. But then along comes Jane who accepts him as he is and who actually wants to dig deeper and get to know him. They have so much fun together, and she is so much more than he expected, and he quickly finds himself falling hopelessly under her spell.<\/p>\n

The chemistry is fantastic, the sexual tension sizzles and when they eventually get down to it, the sexy time is steamy hot! True feelings develop easily and naturally, and though I was wrapped up in romantic bliss, are they ready for all that it means?<\/p>\n

This book is such a fun ride. It\u2019s sweet, funny and seriously sexy, a delightfully charming read, but not in an OTT sugary way, just in a way that is enjoyable and will have you reading with a permanent smile on your face. There is some drama, but it\u2019s handled just perfectly, and I loved the way it all played out.<\/p>\n

And as fantastic as the romance is, the other highlight of the book is Jane and her girlfriends. This is a great bunch of girls, each of them strong and smart but utterly unique. There is a lot of love between them and they have great dynamics, and I can\u2019t wait to read the books for the rest of the girls in this fabulous group.<\/p>\n

A fantastic start to a new series, I loved it!<\/p>\n

4.5 stars.<\/p>\n

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Bridesmaids Behaving Badly<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Once Upon a Bride (#0.5)<\/strong> (Elise & Jay)
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One and Only (#1)<\/strong> (Jane & Cameron)
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It Takes Two (#2)<\/strong> (Wendy & Noah)
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Merrily Ever After (#2.5)<\/strong> (Elise & Jay)
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Three Little Words (#3)<\/strong> (Gia & Bennett)
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Buy:\u00a0 Kindle Ebook\u00a0 |\u00a0 Paperback\u00a0 |\u00a0 Audio Review Freaking fantastic! 4.5 stars Sweet, sexy, beautifully romantic and heartfelt but also laugh-out-loud funny and so much fun! This is the perfect guilty pleasure read, and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","yasr_overall_rating":4.5,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"Product","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,9,29],"tags":[941,940,48],"class_list":["post-39309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lol-funny","category-romance","category-steamy","tag-bridesmaids-behaving-badly","tag-jenny-holiday","tag-review"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/One-and-Only.jpg?fit=150%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gaNL-ae1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}