Hello everyone!
It's Thursday again and once more I'm back with another Noelle Adams book to review for you. Or, well, it's a novella, not really a book, since it's under one hundred pages, but that's beside the point, right? Right.
I started her 'One Fairy Tale Wedding' novella series because, honestly, the premise sounded really neat. Who doesn't want to find their own fairy tale at a wedding?
That being said, however, I have to admit that, as so many people have already mentioned, sometimes only the first book in a series is really SUPER good. The rest just never seem to live up to expactations apparently ...
Or maybe I'm being a little down for some odd reason or another.
In any case, Unveiled, being the third and last in the series, is the book I'll be talking about tonight.
As before with serial blogs, you'll be able to find links to the previous stories at the bottom of the page, but even so I'll give you a brief rundown of what's happened so far in the novellas:
In Unguarded, Charlie and Simon's story, we learn all about this wedding weekend that's happening in a gorgeous manor setting, and we get to meet the three friends who all make a pact to get what they want this weekend. For Charlie, this means Simon's heart, but as he's quite a bit older than her and more than a little bullheaded, it takes her a bit of work.
In Untouched, Hannah and Bruce's story, we continue but from a different perspective, as Hannah basically wants to lose her virginity and she wants Bruce, probably her best male friend, to do it since he's the only one she trusts like that. She also realises she wants more - she wants him, whole, and Bruce wants her right back, so this one isn't as back and forth as Charlie and Simon's.
Now, in Unveiled, it's time for Madison and Timothy's story.
Madison has been helping Timothy out with his six-year-old daughter Jenny for two years, since the death of his wife, who'd been a really good friend. Unfortunately she passed away from cancer and left Timothy and Jenny alone.
This is where Madison comes in.
Madison has had a crush on Timothy since forever (not counting this one other guy she THINKS she had a crush on, but really, she's never looked away from her handsome Korean-American Timothy - I'm mentioning it only because there's a point in the novella that's made about this). Timothy, however, is apparently oblivious.
As in, he does things like asking her out to the movies and dragging his parents along or, in terms of this current wedding they're both going to, he wants them to carpool.
Muy sexy, si?
No.
But anyway.
Our heroine is coming to the end of her rope - and she's realistic enough to see that, if he hasn't started looking at her differently in these two years, he probably never will, so she might as well move on to someone else, or at least LOOK at another guy (hence this other classmate from high school she intends to fool around with this wedding weekend).
Of course, it doesn't help that Timothy's just full of contradictions, charming one moment and then completely wooden and weird the next, and while the average reader will probably figrue out this is because he's in love with Madison but hasn't figured out how to tell her yet, Madison is just frustrated and annoyed.
She's even more annoyed with herself when she can give her friends good, sage advice, but can't bring herself to have the one-night stand with the other guy. Instead, she's going to eat junk food and drink wine and that'll be it.
As luck would have it, Timothy ends up doing that with her - and one thing leads to another, dot, dot, dot.
You read that right, they end up having sex! And we learn neither one of them is quite as uptight or controlled as they'd like the other think they are, but that's beside the point.
The morning after, which is the day of the wedding, things are sort of in a status quo and Madison is pretending she's alright with everything, but as soon as she and Timothy are alone together again prior to heading down to the reception, they have sex again because, why not?
I mean, seriously, they're both consenting, single adults, I REALLY don't see the problem.
They go to the wedding, then end up cuddling together, but not really resolving anything, not even the morning after when they try, both admitting they're unhappy with this situation. They're interrupted by Jenny calling to check on her dad, but the conversation certainly doesn't stop there.
Madison, having admitted that she's in love with Timothy, rushes out of the room and he runs after her because, you know, he's in love with her, too. Has been for a while now but just had no clue how to get it out into the open. And he kind of thought she might figure things out sooner rather than later (but she kept hiding behind a veil and never letting him see the real her) ... and both of them were just really silly for not talking about it before hand.
Four months later, they're having a night out when they're called back to Jenny because she has a low fever, and Timothy asks Madison to marry him in the living room after checking up on his daughter.
And, as the fairy tales say, they all lived happily ever after!
This is one of those easy, romantic, no-nonsense series that I'd recommend if you want to just relax for a couple of hours and unwind and the like. While I didn't really like Untouched and Unveiled as much as Unguarded, I enjoyed all three of the novellas and I can easily see myself reading them again in the future, just for a refresher or to take my mind off other things. As always, Ms Adams delivers believable, relatable characters, and doesn't make the situations too drastic, which is everything what with all the drama in fiction nowadays!
Highly recommended.
xx
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