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REVIEW: A Wedding in Paris by Bretton, Ferrarella and Myers

Ladies,

wedding.gifWho doesn’t enjoy reading about a wedding? Especially one in Paris? Or the romantic city of Paris as you all felt compelled to repeat several times in each story just to make sure we got it. I got it though I did wonder if some French board of tourism had bribed you all to say it so many times in order to sweeten the city’s image.

Ms. Bretton you get us started in “We’ll Always Have Paris” with an older couple, the parents of the bride, who already know each other from long marriage that’s gone sour and are a week from signing the divorce papers. I find plots with couples who already know each other work better for me if a HEA is included in the story because the resolution of the love problem can be handled efficiently and believably in such a short story. But the reason for the estrangement needs to be a good one. I thought the reasons behind what caused them to decide to divorce were rather vague. It seems like all they needed was a good, long talk which then made me wonder …