Second Chance Bride

Second Chance Bride By Trish Morey

Scarlett Buck has worse luck of anyone she knows.  She is just too compulsive, and too ready to trust everyone she meets.  A high school drop out, she has blown opportunity after opportunity in an attempt to find her place in the world.  Now she is in the biggest mess of her life.  After trusting one person too many she finds herself on the other side of the world with a cursed wedding dress, no money, and a desperate need to get back to Marietta.  At this point she'll do anything.

Mitch Bannister, is in a bind too.  His best friend has asked him to be his best man.  The problem is that the bride is Mitch's ex.  He doesn't trust his ex and doesn't want to show up at the wedding hungry for a companion.  In a chaotic turn of events Mitch finds Scarlett and makes an offer she can't refuse.  Will she blow this opportunity too, or will she lose her anti-Midas touch and turn it golden.

I loved the Aussie lingo in this book!  To many times Australian authors try to remove slang from their writings so as not to alienate their American readers, but the slang in this book was well placed and actually added to the story.  There is much I don't know about Australia, so seeing the differences in the speech patterns and reading about some of the sites worth visiting in the West just whetted my appetite for a future visit.

Scarlett is an endearing character.  She has a surprising lack of confidence for someone who seems to jump headlong into everything she does.  Also, her resentment of her sister makes her even more relate-able.

Mitch is a good sport.  A typical romantic hunk with a smart, physical job and money to burn.  My only complaint in the entire book would be a total lack of back story for him.  He mentions his sister, and alludes to something sinister, but then nothing comes of it.

The supporting characters take the cake for everything else.  A villain, a buddy, a couple of supportive parental units, and a beta romance that makes you smile.

Overall, this story is a smile inducer.

Ratings:

(1=unacceptable, 2=poor, 3=acceptable, 4=good, 5=excellent)

Continuity/Flow – 3

Sex – 3 

Language – 4 

Storyline – 5

Overall – 4