SYNOPSIS:
The wedding's off but the honeymoon is on...
Devon can do this. She can show up at her ex-boyfriend Josh's wedding, even though he's marrying her ex-best-friend. She can show everyone she's happy with her fabulous life in Boston, her great career, her amazing shoes -- and she can show everyone she's over him.
Truth is, her life isn't so fabulous. She's just been downsized out of her job, her Jimmy Choos won't pay her mortgage, and...she's still heartbroken that Josh chose family over her. The real reason she's enduring this wedding is that her next stop is nearby Greenbush Island, her last hope of finding a new job.
Josh knows marrying long-time friend Allie will make everyone happy after the rough time their families have been through, and since the woman he really wanted to marry chose her career and big city life over him -- why not?
But the perfect wedding turns into a perfect disaster when Allie leaves him at the altar for another man. He never saw that coming! But hey, Devon's there, offering to help him look for Allie on Greenbush Island, where he'd planned their honeymoon. Only, all they find are their old feelings for each other and a temptation to risk their hearts one more time...
Warning: This book contains a firefighter hot enough to ignite flames, a woman who doesn't want to get burned again, a honeymoon suite but no honeymoon, and sex not on the beach.
My thoughts after reading...
It's never okay to suppress ones feelings... All it does is eat you inside, builds resentment and takes away your peace of mind...
This is what happened to both Josh Brewster & Devon Grant.
Josh was a dutiful son, brother and friend. He feels the need to take care of everyone around him except of course, himself. He sacrificed his own happiness to be with the woman he loved to move back home and oversee everything. He even went as far as marrying a childhood friend, since it was expected of them to do so... Like I said, he was dutiful and a man of his word.
On the day of his wedding he was left at the church by his bride Allie, who decided to run away with her old boyfriend Gavin.
He wasn't crushed as everybody expected him to be, but he was humiliated. Such a normal reaction... anyway...
So enter Devon Grant, Josh's ex-girlfriend & Allie's erstwhile bestfriend.
Devon Grant was invited to the wedding of Josh and Allie. She didn't really want to... Deep inside she was hurting that the love of her life and her former best friend are getting married. She didn't even know about their relationship not until she saw on facebook that they're "in a relationship" with each other... Whom are we kidding? Of course that hurt like hell...but as we humans tend to do, we let pride take over and put on a brave face and try to be as nonchalant about the whole thing as we can...
But everything happens for a reason right? Right...
The lesson I learned from reading this story about Josh and Devon is that we should always say how we feel and risk being pathetic or hurt... It may or may not make a difference but at least we tried. Anything spending your peace of mind over, is always worth a shot. Plus, communication is the key to any kind of relationship...
It would've been catastrophic had things worked out differently... Had Josh and Allie married, knowing deep inside, both of them were really in love with different people... And what if it happened and the people they loved, married other people as well?? Do we really want to go on life wondering what could've been? I guess not.
I loved the story...though I must say the ending was a bit hanging. I wondered if there was more to Josh's and Devon's story... I mean, I sure hope so 😉
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