There are a few funny things here & there but nothing like the book promises. Sure as little girls we all dream of our wedding day. I remember looking at Brides magazine. Checking them out at the library. Buying them & cutting my favorite ones in a notebook. Of course, all those dresses were way to expensive for me to ever wear. That part of Cassie's background I can buy. However, making a mathematical timeline for when you will get married & have kids is ridiculous! You can't predict that stuff. And you can't predict who you fall in love with. And believing a goddess of the beach exists is ludicrous! Marissa is the only sane one in the group of friends. Cassie hunts down her perfect husband very stalker like. Doing research on your "future" husband before you have even been out on a date is mad. The odds of that relationship making it to marriage are. slim. The odds of it leading to divorce if they did marry are higher. This is definitely why I finished this book but I will not be reading the rest of the series. This was my first book by this author. I couldn't believe Cassie was changing herself to be who Parker wanted her to be. That should have been a red flag for Cassie. If a guy wants you to charge for him he's not worth your time. He should love you for you! She also rationalized his red flags or bad behavior. I could never marry a guy with parents like Parker's!
Parker comes from filthy rich parents. His mom interrogated her & his dad is creepy as hell! Any old man who goes kissing his son's girlfriend on the lips is disgusting. And Parker has no backbone for allowing his father to do it. The fact that Parker's parents gave their approval like Cassie was a piece of meat they were bidding on rubs me the wrong way. Parker really was more like obsessed with Sara, this ex girlfriend.
Then there is Will a fun guy Cassie works with that everyone likes, except her. I think she feels threatened by him. Everything seems to come easy for him. He makes up a nickname for her that means toilet in another language. I thought it was blatantly obvious he liked her from the get go. Think about it what do little boys do to girls they like? Pull their hair, tease them, scare them with a frog, etc. I guess none of these women remembered being a child even though they were so young. Will really puts himself out there for her too. He teaches her golf for Pete's sake of course, I suspect he had ulterior motives. Especially, since they started going out to eat afterwards. Until I think deep down Cassie knew she was starting to have feelings for Will otherwise why would she stop taking lessons from him early? Let's not forget the grand jesture he made buying those expensive impossible to get Lady Gaga tickets that started their friendship. They both find out about a management position at work. Did I mention Will & Cassie are both competitive? The funny thing is Cassie wouldn't have even tried to get the job if it wasn't for Marissa convincing her. The interview process is two separate interviews because they put them on a team project to see how they do. Cassie thinks she's winning. She's confident & she challenges almost every suggestion Will gives. When she gets to the second interview & find out some of the employees were asked to give their feedback on how they both lead. When Cassie found out her employees thought she was dominant she wanted to be sick. She realized she had sabotaged herself because she was to competitive. She decided then & there she would change. She listened to others suggestions. She went back over things she turned down. And the turnaround was just the wake up call she needed. I'll not tell the ending but it might be a shock to some.
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