A romance that sparkles right off the pages into the heart!
Events manager Sylvie Smith's friend Candy left her friend with one huge mess! First she roped Sylvie into doing the planning for her wedding to the rich, powerful and handsome Tom McFarlane and then she walks out on the groom, the same groom who is now going over each event detail cost, line by line, with eyes glaring. Glares turn into sparks, an electric chemistry that neither Sylvie nor Tom can resist.
Now months later, Celebrity magazine comes to her with a proposition to profile her company, as company that has planned some of the most takled about weddings. Design the wedding of dreams and let readers catch a glimpse of what she herself would choose. With a chance to promote all the local Wedding Fayre exhibitors, Sylvie has others counting on her. Just when Sylvie thought she had put the past behind her, her worst nightmare comes true! Standing in her ancestral home, in walks the new owner --- Tom McFarlane to overlook the events.... no way will he not notice that Sylvie is pregnant! Sylvie might be able to design a perfect wedding for Celebrity magazine but what is a wedding without a groom? Can true love and serendipity provide what the best wedding planning cannot? Can broken hearts find love beyond even their wildest dreams?
I am writing a review of this book later but I would like to blog this book a bit more off the cuff so I can tell you how much I adore this author's writing.
I opened up The Bride's Baby and I was hooked within the first paragraph and this story never let me go. In fact, it is still reverberating in my mind and heart. I was standing there right with the heroine from beginning to end. And the hero..well, he may be an Alpha ( with a delightful wounded soul mix) but this man knows how to really move a woman, body, heart and soul.
Liz Fielding's writing sparkles with emotion and romance. Liz Fiedling writes with such beauty and precision in her descriptions and images. I visualize the scenes. I feel the emotions through the imagery. The precise action of a shoe or a certan color reappearing make the story vibrant and alive. I know this sounds really strange but when I read this romance, it made me really miss teaching. In a book review a person has to not do spoilers but a teacher gets the luxury of pointing out particular passages to other people and talking about the beauty and power of great writing. That's what this book made me want to do.
Personal notes:
I read this book at my most excruciating moments of shoulder pain. Hyperbole it might seem but it is the truth. No amount of pain could distract me from this romance read. When i say I love this book or how its beauty captivated me...know the conditions under which I read this romance and it might answer how much.
On the subject of spoilers, there are two particular parts of this book that moved me in a very personal way. I emailed Liz Fielding to tell her because I just had to tell someone without creating spoilers. Then I said I felt her book really spoke to my generation but I take that back --- I think it is beyond a generational thing. Last night I was talking to my mom on the phone about certain parts of this book and she knew right away why this book moved me. I have been sitting here debating whether or not to give my extra copy of this book to a friend or my mom but after hearing how just talking about how this book moved her...my mom will be reading her first Liz Fielding soon. 
I discovered Liz Fielding last year in a sort of serendipitous way through The Secret Life of Lady Gabriella. I new right then she was auto-buy. Though her I also discovered the beauty of he short romance form and the Harlequin Romance line. I am sure it is a bit heretical to say this but I don't even look at the titles or blurbs of her books anymore...I don't even care what the story is about really because after reading 4 romances by her, I just know I am in for a treat no matter what she writes. I have a short list of authors in widely divergent subgenres where I just love their writing period. Liz Fielding is on that short list for me. Of all 4 I have read so far, <i>The Bride's Baby</i> touched me..Merri, not only Merri the reader but me the once little girl and me the woman.
AKA Merri
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I don't look at the titles or blurbs anymore, either.
I had two Liz Fielding books that I wasn't going to read (one from '05 or so and one from '06) b/c they were "themes" that I tend to not buy into. But friends I trusted said, "No, try it. Liz handles it really well." And oh, she did. One thing that I love about Liz is the variety of moods she can write. Funny or poignant or "pull at your heart strings the whole book". She is one of the few authors who survived my "auto-buy" cuts this year (since I'm REALLY cutting back on how many books I buy/borrow til I catch up on my "will last me 2 years tbr", many of my "auto-buy" authors got shifted to "auto-consider").
Penn
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Auto Buy for me too
Liz Fielding has been an auto buy for me for awhile now. I have yet to be disappointed by anything she has written. Per Harlequin, this book is currently winging its way to me, so hopefully I can read it soon too!
Hope the shoulder is getting on better. I can't believe how much a shoulder can mess with life!
Bonsal
The Bride's Baby
Penn and Bonsal, I agree. Liz Fielding's writing is tops. I too bought one of her books that had a less favored theme, one I would typically avoid, but that book is one very special book. I was talking to my dh about it and I remembered so much of it. One thing that makes her special is that she always has these precise memorable moments, usually action scenes or some concrete description, that just stay with the book long afterwards. The fall from the ladder, snowglobe scene, the pink taxi dream, the proposal scene. Here an attic scene and others. Yes, on the emotions!
I do have to say that The Bride's Baby touched me on a very personal level too. That's why I had to call my mom and tell her about this book. There are some moments here that either one of us could have lived....with the same emotions too.
Penn, hurry up and read this one so can have a spoiler email!
AKA Merri
Family Challenge Team: The Spine Breakers with my dh Glenn AKA Phaedrus