Snowbound. Sounds so romantic, with visions of cuddling before a roaring fire, hot chocolate spiked with brandy, and a secret elopement.Wait. What?My fiancé’s father won’t stop trying to turn our pending wedding into a three-ring media circus so he can get free publicity for his family’s Fortune 500 company. My mother has decided she’s done with All Things Wedding and asks her teacup Chihuahua … teacup Chihuahua for mother-of-the-bride advice.
They’ve all gone certifiably mad.
Then the stress from the wedding puts my mother in the hospital, I scream at my future father-in-law in front of a camera crew and the video goes viral, and the romantic wedding that started with Andrew’s grand Pride and Prejudice proposal looks less like Jane Austen and more like Dostoyevsky.
So what do you do when you’re a fixer and you can’t fix something?
You give up on it.
Not on Andrew, silly.
The wedding.
Shopping for a CEO’s Wife is the 12th book in Julia Kent’s New York Times bestselling Shopping series. As Shannon and Declan enjoy their newlywed bliss, Andrew’s father wants to exploit Amanda and Andrew’s nuptials, much to Amanda’s chagrin. Can she learn to stand up to her future father-in-law and fight for what’s right? But the real question is: will Spritzy the teacup Chihuahua end up being a flower girl?
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“Dec!” Andrew calls back. “Get Gerald here. We have a pap in the bush.”
“That’s what I get once a year at the gynecologist,” Shannon says, giving me a very bewildered look.
“Paparazzi. Not a pap Smear.”
“Oh! Yeah, no. I don’t have one of those in my hoo haw.” She frowns. “Not yet, at least.”
With conversations like that scattered throughout this book, on almost every page, it’s hard not to love Julia Kent’s writing style. Just sayin’. I devoured the first five books in this series and couldn’t get my hands on the following books quickly enough. I had read them all and was anxiously waiting for others to be released. I read through book eleven about a year ago and then took a break. Not really sure why, but I did. I picked it back up last night and have been smiling (OK, laughing) ever since.
If you haven’t experienced this series you need to pick it up. It’s one of the funniest, irreverent, and totally entertaining rom-coms I’ve ever read.
Shopping for a CEO’s Wife (Shopping for a Billionaire #12) was another great read by Julia Kent. Andrew’s father wont stop trying to make his upcoming wedding to Amanda a three- ring circus. He is trying to use the wedding as free publicity for his business. Amanda feels as though everyone around her has gone mad. The stress from the wedding puts her mother in the hospital. She finally unleashes on her future father-in-law. I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to read more by Julia Kent.
4 stars
I purchased a copy of the steamy novel Shopping for a CEO’s Wife (Shopping for a Billionaire Book 12) Andrew and Amanda by Julia Kent and this review was given freely.
In Julia Kent’s over the top descriptive way, She relays the story of the lead up to Amanda and Andrew’s wedding and their struggle with the paparazzi, who are being guided by James’ desire for publicity at all costs. The novel is half intimate scenes and a fair amount of disputes but overall a good story line with a happy ending.
This time, Andrew’s father took the role of parentzilla, when it came to Andrew and Amanda’s wedding.
I listened to the Audiobook which was narrated by Any McFadden, and she did an excellent job. Ofte, some female narrators, voicing male characters, can take you completely out of the momemt. (This case often be the same for male narrators voicing female characters.)
Not so with this narrator. She captured the wit, the sarcasm, the humor, the anger, anguish, disapproval, the sense of outrage, support, and sometimes the downright hilarity of each chart and moment in the book.
I like Dec and Shannon, but Andrew and Amanda have come to be my favorite couple. One of the best scenes was when Amanda confronted James. Another was the whole “tugging” conversation. I mean, “Who knew?”
A really enjoyable listen. Especially during this not so light hearted period of mandatory social distancing. A book to help really lift your spirits. 4.5 stars.
So much fun to read. Could not put it down. Even though it was funny, there were plenty of serious moments to balance it out.
It was a funny book. Just like all the others in this series. But it can be read as a stand-alone. Great author!!!
great
I’ve enjoyed this whole series.
Love, love, love these very funny, well written stories and characters! One of my all-time favorites!! This had some funny parts but not the full belly laughs of some of the others!