Waking Up Married
By Mira Lyn Kelly
Series: Waking Up...
Number in Series: 1
Genre: Romantic, Contamporary
Publisher: Harlequin KISS
Publish Year: 2012
251 pages.
251 pages.
Description (the one on its Goodreads page):
Her first thought: "Who are you?"
It's the morning after her cousin's bachelorette party in Vegas and Megan Scott wakes up with the mother of all hangovers. Even worse, she's in a stranger's penthouse having woken up with something else as well - a funny, arrogant, sexy...husband!
Up until now, finding even a boyfriend had seemed impossible - been there, got the broken heart, sworn off men for good. Then a few martinis with Carter...no, Connor Reed and she's gone from first meet to marriage in one night!
Megan wants a lawyer. But Connor's shocking bombshell?
"I don't want a divorce."
Review:
Listen, I'm all for flawed, real characters, but these characters... Oh boy.
Let's start easy. Megan doesn't have friends. Her cousin and two childhood friends are disgusting human beings. They are egotistical, trouble-makers, gossipers, and just the lowest of the low. Fuck them.
Jeff, Connor's best friend, was practically useless apart from one little encounter. Sorry, not enough.
Megan's mom was almost nonexistent, but from what we learned about her she was a shitty little person. Caring only about herself when Megan grew up and not being able to keep her daughter's information out of EVERYONE'S ear.
We can learn that Kelly doesn't really love parents, and in her hands they are a tool to emotionally damage her characters.
Now, Megan and Connor. They are both reasonably damage from their respective pasts, but they are not fun to read about. Selfish, childish, manipulative. I swear, at least 70% of this book describes the manipulations they do to each other. Making them suffer, doubt themselves, afraid to trust, and then betray the trust ones earned. It's disgusting. Luckily the book was short so I managed to finish it.
Megan just doesn't know how to surround herself with good people who'd do her good.
Well Kelly, Truth Or Dare was amazing, realistic and fun, passionate and not damaged, flawed but loved. After reading the second in it's series, and reading this one, I wonder if TOD was just good by accident. You have one more strike left before I cross anything you write from my future reading list.
It's not that it is a bad novel, it's just not good, and after reading a five star romance novel out of her that I can somewhat proudly say i read, reading this is very disappointing. It's not mindless cliché and ditsy, it felt wrong and offensive towards the characters, they truly hurt eachother and almost always didn't care of the emotional outcome of their actions. Seemed almost abusive. I don't want to read a romance novel about abusive relationship!
Notes While Reading:
34%: “You don’t want them to know [about getting married].”
Guileless eyes met his. “I’d prefer they don’t.”
Of course she does! In our days, having casual occasional sex with a stranger is fine but marrying, binding your life to another legally after just a few hours of knowing them is weird! Nothing wrong with her line of thought.
57%: I don't like this game you're playing. It's stupid and shows your emotional maturity is lacking, Megan.
2.4 stars out of 5 stars.
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