Review: Tall Tales and Wedding Veils by Jane Graves.

This book was read and reviewed by my friend at work, Nikol. She absolutely loved this book and had this to say about the book…

…read on for her review.

Hero: Tony McCaffrey
Heroine: Heather Montgomery
Grade: 5 out of 5

Accountant Heather Montgomery is a planner. So never in her wildest dreams did she think she’d run into sexy charmer Tony McCaffrey in Vegas, play lady luck, and celebrate his jackpot with a champagne-soaked night. And she certainly never expected to wake up the next morning married! How could this good girl pick a man whose fridge is empty and whose apartment is a disaster zone, yet still drives her so crazy with lust she can’t see straight?

Quickly hitched and happily ditched, Tony can’t wait to get back to his playboy ways. But when Heather’s family is thrilled that their no-nonsense daughter is finally in love, he proposes a plan: stay married for a month to repay his good luck charm, even though she sterilizes his toothbrush and forbids anything between the sheets. But Heather is more than he bargained for–a sharp-witted, passionate woman who just might turn his near miss into wedded bliss!

Heather is a CPA from Plano, Texas. She doesn’t have much of a life. She invests most of her time into her work and she’s a Plain Jane. Her best friend’s name is Alison and they kick up their shoes at McMillians, which is a neighborhood bar. She hasn’t dated anyone in 6 months and she’s stressing over her cousin Regina’s wedding because she’s stuck wearing a hideous salmon colored bridesmaid dress. She’s intimidated by Regina because Regina loves to throw how well she’s doing in life in Heather’s face and she’s getting pressured by her Mother to marry soon cause she wants to be a grandmother.

Tony McCaffrey used to be a Repo Man before he bought his dream bar, McMillians. He’s one of those sex me lookin’ guys, he loves women…especially tall blondes with big breasts. He’s a party boy, your typical frat boy who loves to eat, drink and have plenty of wild monkey sex and has looks to kill. His dream is to buy McMillians but he doesn’t have the funds to do it and so he goes to Vegas to try to win some money to buy his damn bar but comes up short until he runs into Heather. Now Heather knows who Tony is from McMillians and she thinks he’s hella hot but knows that she doesn’t stand a chance with him because she’s not hella hot like him.

On a bridal trip to Vegas with Regina and her posse of bridesmaids, Heather sees her hottie from the neighborhood bar, Tony and one thing led to another and Heather wins the $20,000 that Tony needs to buy his dream bar. Because she’s smitten and stupid, she turns over the money to Tony and they celebrate in the back of a limo with a bottle of champange. Once the sun goes up, they realized that a) they got really drunk b) they got really married and c) they got seriously married, which was totally out of character for the uptight Heather. She tells her mother what happens and comes home to work on getting an annulment only to find out that her Mother spilled the beans to the entire family and because Tony is a gentleman and Heather did win him the money to get his bar, he decides to go along with the story of them being married so Heather and her mother wouldn’t look like fools to the family, Regina included.

Heather moves in with Tony to keep up the charade and it’s pretty obvious what happens after…they fall in love. This story isn’t a new story. We’ve read plenty of stories where the hero and the heroine drunkenly get married and they pretend to be an actual couple to save face and they end up falling in love with each other on the way. I’ve read this book before and I’ve seen this movie but I still enjoyed the heck out of this particular book. I still laughed myself silly through out a huge chunk of this book and I still hecka enjoyed this story. Heather cracked me up just as much as Tony did and the things these two got into was just a delightfully funny treat! This book is fun and is the perfect summer read.

Ya’ll should definitely check this book out. You won’t be sorry, I’m still laughing over things that happened in the story. It was that good, go forth and read it and thank me later. 🙂

This book is available from Grand Central Publishing. You can buy it here or here in e-format.

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