When six friends make a pact not to let love get in the way of their careers, the No Brides Club is born. But could meeting the right man at the wrong time cause them to break their vows to each other?Julie Harrison had the perfect job and a stellar reputation as one of the city’s top, new programmers…until suddenly she didn’t. Despite her innocence, her company blamed her for leaking secret … secret project details to a competitor. Worse yet, her fiance took their side.
Dan Foster would once do anything to get closer to his goal of becoming company CEO. Unfortunately, that meant siding with the higher ups instead of his spurned fiancee. Now he’d give anything to rewind time and get Julie back into his arms.
When a surprise acquisition forces them to work side-by-side once more, old feelings of love and longing, but also betrayal resurface, too.
Dan wants her back. Julie isn’t ready to blindly trust the ex who let her down in such a big way. Can he make up for his past mistakes and convince her to take a second chance at their future together?
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I really enjoyed this book! I love books where I can learn something while I’m meeting interesting characters and being entertained. In this story, we have lost love, redemption, forgiveness, growing up, business world and tech skills all wrapped up in a well-written, enjoyable package. I really liked the characters and they way they took care of each other. I loved the discussion of the tech stuff, lol, even though I didn’t understand it. This was a really good read and I recommend it highly!
The wonderful book may be a part of the No Brides Club, but you can read it as a stand alone. I really enjoyed this book. During this coronavirus 19 you need something to pick you up and give you a happy ending. This book delivers that. The characters so true to life they felt like friends. The two of them met at a cafe that Sam works at and Matt visits often. The two of them have a lot of baggage from their past and wasn’t sure if they wanted to get in a relationship. They start getting closer until Sam finds out Matt is a lawyer in part of taking down her apartment and old friends who live in it. Can Sam and Matt work everything out…you’ll just have to read it. You won’t be disappointed.
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3 stars
I purchased a copy of the clean novel No Time for Surprises (The No Brides Club Book 6): Julie and Daniel by Karen McCullough and this review was given freely.
A novel with promise. Suspenseful and drama packed this second chance at love story for the last of the original six No Brides Club members mixes a corporate take over with computer hacking and vivid scenes of New York’s greenscapes and museums.
When Cummings & Worth merges with Spieler Financials the company that ruined her career, contractor computer programmer Julie Harrison has to decide what to do with the attraction she still feels for her ex- fiance Daniel Foster.
May be read as a stand alone but best if read in sequence.
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4 stars
I purchased a copy of the clean novel No Time for Goodbyes (The No Brides Club Book 7):Brooke and Austin by Christina Butrum and this review was given freely.
Featuring Manhattan, New York pediatric oncology nurse Brooke, this sequel introduces an entire new group of members to the No Brides Club lead by wedding planner Emilia.
After three years, an urgent text from her ex, firefighter Austin Jensen, has Brooke Collins rushing home to Lawson Heights,Iowa when mother has a massive stroke.
May be read as a stand alone but best if read in sequence.
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5 stars
I purchased a copy of the clean novel No Time for Romance (The No Brides Club Book 8):Emilia and Chase by Raine English and this review was given freely.
A short an ironic, chaotic and poignant second chance at love story interwoven with Kinsley’s “Murphy’s Law” wedding.
Ten years after her almost wedding, New York wedding planner and twin, Emilia Sullivan is reunited with the man who disappeared the night of their elopement,her new caterer Chase Christianson.
May be read as a stand alone but best if read in sequence.
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2 stars
I purchased a copy of the clean novel No Time for Detours (The No Brides Club Book 9): Ava and Nick by Jean C. Gordon and this review was given freely.
A novel with promise and a poignant story of neglect and the real meaning of family. One year after book 5, Kate’s little sister Ava Lewis finds herself no longer engaged, back in college for pre-law and coincidently in the same New York apartment building as visiting Philadelphia financial consultant Nick Jansen who receives a sudden visit from his energetic five year old twin “niece and nephew”.
May be read as a stand alone but best if read after book 5 but refers to Brooke as still in New York as in the beginning of book 7.
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4 stars
I purchased a copy of the clean novel No Time for Lattes (The No Brides Club Book 10): Vivian and by Becky Muth and this review was given freely.
A complexed love at first sight story with a down to earth a realistic and fun filled Christian family mixed in with some conflict, the eclectic work life of a millenial, the theme of broken relationships and Broadway. Multiple tragedies result in teacher Vivian Hart being homeless, jobless, single house and sitting for her child’s book author, New York matchmaking Aunt Sophie’s cat and attracted to the dynamic struggling actor and man of multiple part time jobs Sawyer Nash.
May be read as a stand alone but refers to Brooke still in New York as in the beginning of book 7.
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4 stars
I purchased a copy of the clean novel No Time for Trouble (The No Brides Club Book 11): Marnie and Mal by Monique McDonell and this review was given freely.
A delightful fast paced billionaire, attraction at first sight, love finally realized romance connecting back to book 4 containing down to earth characters, and strong, successful, caring characters who desire loving and close families of their own despite their less than “TV family” upbringings.
When new No Bride’s Club member TV producer Marnie Bate needs a ruse to protector her from her critical mother at her sister’s engagement party, Marnie picks the only male friend she knows, Her partner Georgie’s husband Liam’s business partner, advertising executive and billionaire Malcolm ” Mal” Cooper’s.
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3 stars
I purchased a copy of the clean novel No Time for Regrets (The No Brides Club Book 12) by Karen McCullough and this review was given freely.
A finding love and healing when not looking romance. This novel includes a slice of New York life involving unsafe low rent housing,Julie’s former paralegal cousin,college student and Beckley’s Cafe waitress Samantha “Sam” Dennis and widowed attorney Matthew R. Sentori.
I just didn’t really connect with these characters. Dan and Julie were pleasant enough but there was simply something about them that didn’t draw me to them enough to make we want to care about their relationship. I was disappointed that the No Brides Club wasn’t featured more, this being the last book in the series. It was almost nonexistent! It seemed to me that since the whole series was about the No Brides Club, it would be featured more but each book was less and less about the club! By this book, it was hardly even mentioned! But, back to Dan and Julie….I felt that the story centered too much about Julie’s work in software coding and, to be honest, was on the boring side to me. It seemed the all that technical stuff could have been paraphrased and then moved on. It felt more like a technical book than a romance. I enjoyed the series overall, just not this book so much.
I think this final book of the series might be my favourite. It is a second chance romance. Julie and Dan were engaged and breaking up was not what either of them wanted but Dan didn’t believe her when she said she didn’t do what the company accused her of. Three years later and work throws these two back together, can Julie let go of the past to see that Dan still loves her, can Dan convince her that he is sorry? Their story keeps you guessing, but like all the books in the series there is a HEA.
Julie’s story is a delightful tale of overcoming the past and finding peace in the present. When her former fiance returns to her life in an unexpected way, can Julie prove her innocence and/or forgive Dan? Also, can Dan forgive Julie’s past betrayal or will he find that he made the wrong choice? This book has some great mystery and intrigue as well as a beautiful tale of friendship and maybe even love.
No Time for Surprises by Karen McCollough is the first book I have read by this author. However, it is book 6 of The No Brides Club series and I have read all of them! I am sorry to see this series come to an end. This story of Julie and Dan was another page turner. It had a little of everything: hardship, dispair, accusations, animosity, heartbreak, mystery and romance. It also has a happily ever after. I thoroughly enjoyed this book!
This is the last book in the series and it’s another great story.
Julie Harrison is a programmer with a perfect job and a great reputation, but when she is falsely accused of betrayal by her company, what she least expected was that her fiancé, Dan Foster, stayed on their side, since he had aspirations to become CEO of the company.
Three years later, Julie and Dan are forced to work together. Dan wants Julie back, but Julie isn’t sure about trusting him again.
Dan will be able to prove to Julie that he has made a mistake in the past and really wants her back?
I loved the story and the characters and highly recommend the reading.
Final book in The No Brides Club is here and is a great read. Every story in this series has been wonderful to read and to see what each author chooses for a storyline.
Julie, who worked as an IT had everything, the perfect job and boyfriend. One day was all it took to lose everything, she was set up with her job and fired and her boyfriend sided with the company because he wanted to climb the corporate ladder and lost Julie. Three years later and they must work together again but julie isnt sure she can trust him to become involved again. Will she ever forgive him and let her heart be happy again or will she decide to pass on love for the last time.
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This book makes me sad. With it I know that I’ve reached the last of the No Brides Club. I have enjoyed all the books and I think this will rank as one of my favorites. The circumstances are so real and the reactions are true to life. Karen McCullough has made Jake’s original reaction 3 years prior realistic and human, so are Julie’s response to his. Life has a certain karma to it and this book uses that all the way thru. I won’t spoil any surprises but I totally cheered at times. Thank you for a great ending to the series.
No Time For Surprises!
This is the sixth and last book in the No Brides Club. Of course, now 5 of the 6 friends have found their HEA leaving just Julie (they really should have renamed their group by now!). This is a second chance story for Julie and Dan. In the past, Julie left a firm after being wrongfully accused of leaking intellectual property. Dan was her fiancé at the time, but he didn’t know what to do with the accusations, and by doing nothing, he wasn’t the supportive partner Julie was expecting and needing. Now, three years later, she’s back as a contractor and she is once again working with her ex-fiancé, Dan. Their journey back to love and their own HEA is not an easy one with the issues of trust and newly found relationships getting in the way.
I enjoyed all the books in this series, and I found this one followed the “script” of the others. I was hoping that this one would tie the previous couples lives up in a type of epilogue for the series. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy this book, but I was a bit disappointed that we didn’t learn how the others are doing, and that the 6 women didn’t rename their club and start a new club together.
I received an ARC copy of this book courtesy of Sweet Promise Press and am voluntarily reviewing it. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and given freely.
What a great story and series ending. Julie and Dan have a past that ended badly. They have to work together but can she forgive him and give him a second chance? This book was full of forgiveness, second chances, and new beginnings. Loved how they both looked beyond their own hurt and really communicated this time. I will say when the true source of the leak was found out I thought more should have been done to make amends. Really sweet story.
I have really enjoyed this series. Hoping they have follow-ups on each story, or at least one final follow-up showing them all now happily married!! Read the books to see how each one goes from no time for romance to happy in a relationship.
This one is very on trend and now with the computer app business! Love how it all played out! Very well written.
I received an ebook and I’m voluntarily giving my review.
A great book!
The last of the six friends to fall in love. Julie. Well, actually, she WAS engaged, once. But her fiancé let her down so badly. So heartbreakingly! But Dan now regrets his actions and wants her back. Can she trust him again?
I thought this was a great 6th book in this wonderful series! A Second Chance Romance, sweet and enjoyable to read.
I enjoyed reading No Time for Surprises. It’s a clean romance with a bit of a mystery too. The main characters, Julie and Dan, are very likable and easy to relate to. It was easy to get caught up in their emotions. There were issues with trust and forgiveness–not for cheating. The answer to the mystery is emotionally satisfying. I wanted an HEA for them and got it. I received an ARC. I chose to write a review and share my opinion of this romance.
No Time For Surprises is the last in the series No Brides Club is a sweet story written by Karen McCullough. Three years after Julie fiancé broke up with her and getting fired from the company they both worked for when she was accused of leaking her project to a competitor. Life was difficult for Julie no fiancé, no job and lost of reputation until she had one company believe her and take a chance on her apps. Surprise! Julie’s ex and her former company now bought out the company she is the main consultant and they need her to finish the app but she does not trust them! Excellent story and one not to miss reading. I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review of it.
No Time for Surprises is a fun romance you’re sure to enjoy!
No Time for Surprises was a delightfully tense story. Julie’s life imploded when she was accused of leaking secret project details to a competitor. Worse, her fiance believed the evidence against her. Julie slowly rebuilt her reputation. When suddenly forced to work with her former fiance and company, Julie has grave concerns. Dan wants her back, but can Julie trust him? This is a clean romance with some intrigue. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.
I’ve read all the books in this series. I don’t think I can pick a favourite. They have all been great which is not normally the case when there is more than one author creating a book as part of a series.
All the books can be read as a standalone, however, I believe you get more out of them reading them in order.
No Time for Surprises is well written, clean and easy to read with a happy ever after. The story is also about learning to trust again after your heart has been broken and your livelihood destroyed by others.
Highly recommend.
I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Wow, being somewhat a computer geek myself, I was totally floored at the research that was needed for this story. And what a wild, delightful story it was! This was a fabulous second chance romance that had me holding my breath and turning pages throughout the book. Don’t miss any of this series!