Susan Elizabeth Phillips has created some of my favorite secondary characters and romances of all time. That being said, I loved the ending and felt it fit perfectly for the people the two had become. But, I would have liked more of a real romance a bit sooner. I also didn’t mind all of the sniping and arguing Georgie did with Bram – she has real reasons for being angry with him.
I didn’t have problems with the fact that both characters were using each other for sex for a good part of the book. It’s apparent that he has his own reasons for agreeing to the fake marriage, but they remain a mystery for a large portion of the book.
We really don’t know what Bram is like now, or what his motivations are, for a long time. Much of what we know about Bram we learn through Georgie’s eyes which is almost totally the image she’s retained from his younger self. We know much more about her than we do about Bram, and this was a problem for me. This time, it’s Georgie who is at the center of the book. Susan Elizabeth Phillips has written some of my favorite heroes. She offers Bram a great deal of money to stay married to her for a year and play the faithful husband. Instead of getting an instant divorce, Georgie decides this is her opportunity to become something other than an object of pity. Trailed by the paparazzi, Georgie is sick of being the much-pitied victim by her fans and the media.Ī series of strange events in Las Vegas lead to Georgie and Bram getting married. Her husband left her for a do-gooder gorgeous movie star who is now pregnant with his child (and, yes, the similarities to Brangelina are definitely there), despite the fact that he refused to have with Georgie the children she longed for. After starring in two failed films, with a third bomb about to be released, her career is a mess. Bram was a self-centered, destructive man, who ruined the hit show and his career before their characters could marry and have children.ĭespite being wildly rich and having a wonderful group of friends, Georgie is struggling with her life. Georgie loved the character Bram played on the show, but eventually came to hate the man when the cameras turned off. Georgie York and Bram Shepard first met eight years earlier when they were the stars of the Skip and Scooter show. While in the end there were a number of things I liked about the book, I’ll be honest: If not reading it for review, I would have put it down repeatedly, perhaps for several weeks at a time. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out that way. I assumed that Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ newest would be an A or A- read for me, or at worst, a B+.
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