| Title | : | My Fiancé's Brother: Part 1 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 316 |
| Publication | : | First published May 6, 2017 |
I keep my head firmly planted in wedding planning hell.
Matt, my fiancé, is just distracted. He’s busy at work.
And if I could just pick my bridal colors,
I’m sure everything will get back on track.
I don’t know why he is acting so distant and erratic.
And why did he invite his big, intimidating,
hard-to-read, Navy SEAL friend, Jackson, to live with us?
What is the secret they’re keeping from me?
I’m valiantly hanging onto my fairytale future,
and single-handedly trying to get Matt and myself
down the aisle.
But things are getting complicated.
Jackson makes me aware of things.
Things I’m not yet willing to admit.
Like the fact that I’m lonely and hurt,
and afraid that Matt isn’t the man I want to marry.
I’m the good girl.
I’m the one you bring home to your mom.
I’m the virgin saving myself.
And no matter what,
I’m going to get my happy ending.
My Fiancé's Brother: Part 1 Reviews
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Delightful, engrossing, heartfelt. Ms Stone is quite the talented writer.
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This book has many of my pet peeves... Unplanned pregnancy and marriage that comes from responsibility is the worst case of romance scenario for me.
Here, read my friend PointedlyBlunt's reviews for both books in this duet and decide for yourselves if you would have taken this piece of a shit hero or not!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Odette Stone's Vancouver Wolves series is phenomenal. Home Game will forever be one of my favorites. I've been putting off reading this for a while because of the bad reviews and I wish I had listened to them. The main character is the dumbest, most naive woman I have ever had the misfortune of reading. She has garbage friends, and a garbage fiance, her only redeeming quality appears to be that she's cute, has a tragic past, and is kind to animals? Snore. She lets herself be mistreated by the people around her over and over again and we're supposed to feel sympathy for her? There's no thoughtful internal monologue with any real justification for why she keeps Julie/Matt in her life. Save yourself a few hours of muttering "you moron" and just re-read Home Game instead!
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4 stars
I don’t know how I stumbled across this book, but I am so glad I did.
This was an unexpected breath of fresh air, absolutely nothing that I thought was going to happen, happened, which doesn't happen very often these days.
Jackson is totally my book boyfriend now.
I also didn’t realise that this was a duet – even better. You already know I've devoured the second instalment, lol. -
4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Stars! Love triangle/forbidden romance. I loved it, I mean from the moment it says love triangle and forbidden I was all in, and boy was this a juicy one. On to book 2.
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Spoiler
Avoid. Series leads to emotional cheating by H after they marry. The H pines and eye fucks his ex constantly in front of the h. Doormat h. 🙄 -
DNF @ 45% - Emily needs a therapist. She stupid. I got annoyed so I went to read the reviews and find out that not only does she have to deal with Obvious Dirtbag Cheater Fiancé Matt, but in the 2nd book Jackson turns into a raging jackass, and in love with someone else. I was waiting for Jackson to swoop in and tell all the asswipes in Emily’s life to eff off, and then take care of her himself, but instead he just becomes one of the assholes taking advantage of what seems like obvious untreated mental illness to me.
No thanks. -
WTF did I just read? I'm not sure but it sure as hell entertained me lol so yeah
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Phew!
I think I need a therapy after reading this. -
OMG!
4.25 ⭐️
I feel like I just watched a movie that ended at the most crucial moment. This story has so much emotion, action, betrayal, secrets, lies and love.
Emily is engaged to Matt. She struggles with making decisions, any decision. She suffered trauma as a young girl and that has caused her to hide behind her fear.
She loves Matt and can’t wait to get married and start a family. Now if only she could get him involved in the wedding planning. He seems to be more engrossed in work than their upcoming nuptials.
One morning she wakes to strange noises, finding an intruder using her bathroom. She grabs something prepared to defend herself and finds herself battling a wall of muscle. She learns he is a friend/ pseudo family to Matt and he invited him to live with them while he undergoes treatment at the local hospital. Needless to say Emily is confused.
Emily, Matt & Jackson become roommates. The living arrangement between Matt & Emily is very strange.
I don’t understand what the situation is between Matt & Jackson at all. Clearly there is much more to that story and their past and I can’t wait to find out.
Emily is a bit of a wild card in this. I truly hope she finds her footing and goes after what she wants. -
I really enjoyed this book despite finding myself annoyed with the main female character, Emily.
Emily was so desperate for a family that she overlooked so many red flags from her fiancé, Matt. I guess it’s understandable that she’s have issues since her mom and dad were killed by a home invasion when she was 15 and her grandma passed away shortly after she graduated from college. She has no family left.
Jackson grew up with Matt as a brother of sorts and have some sort of unresolved issue that we still don’t know about yet. They’re trying to work it out I guess and Jackson is staying with Emily and Matt and their place for a few months.
Matt is “always working” and never spends time with Emily so her and Jackson sort of grow close from spending time together. He’s attracted to her and even though she fights it, she’s drawn to him too.
Matt does some fucked up shit and Emily decides to let it go. The fuck? Her friend, Julie, is a real bitch and yet Emily does nothing and overlooks her behavior too. Shit happens and Emily blames herself. It got pretty damn tiring. I kept internally shouting at her while reading this every time she let someone walk all over her.
I still give this 4 stars because there was so much sexual tension that it made me want to combust. The sex was pretty damn hot too and I wanted more.
I’m going to read the next book and I hope to god that Emily learns how to stand up to everyone and learn to respect her damn self. -
Disappointed!
I really enjoyed Odettes Wolves series so I gave this a try. I didn't like Emily, she is very weak. I found myself skipping over much of her inner dialogue. I understood the appeal of Jackson because he is there for her when her fiance is not, but we know nothing about him. I was going to read the next book to get some answers to the myriad of unresolved issues until I read a review about it. Thank goodness I did, not for me. Thank you to PointedlyBlunt. -
I love this author, so while this book has some bad reviews, I thought I’d give it a go anyways :)
This was so cute in places. I quite liked how soft and innocent Emily was. I like how she looked after Jackson. I like how she had a total crush on him lol.
”You have no responsibility or guilt here. I kissed you. That was me, taking something that wasn’t mine to take. It’ll never happen again.”
In saying that, I could deal with a lot of things. But Emily still wanting to plan a wedding after Matt chucked a plate at her head - ridiculous.
Also... I feel like I could have liked this, but I hate surprise pregnancies. It’s my most hated plot twist.
All in all, this started well, but lost me around the halfway point. But I enjoyed it well enough.
I don’t think I’ll read the second. Emily is just too annoying - make a bloody decision love, it isn’t hard. -
I thought Odette Stone’s
Puck Me Secretly was like a soap opera, but My Fiancé’s Brother surely takes the cake. Her prose made the story easy to read, but outside of that one positive, there wasn’t really anything else that could redeem the novel. The heroine was infantile, the romance non-existent, and the plot so absurdly unrealistic that I was left wondering if I was reading a satire of the romance genre.
Relieved to discover that the stranger coming out of her bathroom isn’t an intruder, but her fiancé, Matt’s brother, Emily’s respite is momentarily forgotten when she learns that he will be living with them for the next three months. With Matt growing increasingly distant, Emily can’t help but fall for the one person who is actually there for her. So when Matt informs her that he has been cheating on her, she gives in to her budding attraction and loses her virginity to Jackson. But when she finds out that she is pregnant, she has to decide whether pursuing a lifetime of love with the notoriously reticent navy SEAL is worth risking a sure thing for her unborn child.
The above, which was NOT mentioned in the novel’s official synopsis, was already ridiculous enough, but Odette included even more absurdities that took it to another level. A couple of hours after Emily and Jackson slept together, Matt got into a car accident. He was “supposedly” acting out of character – more on that later – because he had a tumour in his frontal lobe. After the doctors successfully removed the mass, Matt experienced retrograde amnesia and conveniently forgot his behaviour from the past few months. The doctors also wouldn’t allow Emily to tell him that they had already broken up because they were worried that stress could hinder his recovery. First of all, I despise this type of plot device – it’s such a lazy and unnecessary way to produce drama. Secondly, Emily may not have been able to tell Matt the truth, but she could have at least told the father of her child that she was pregnant (which was aggravating enough that they didn’t even consider using any forms of birth control). Instead, she continued planning the wedding and wanted to pass Matt off as the father (!) – which didn’t make any sense considering she was a virgin and he would inevitably figure out that the math didn’t add up – until she finally realized that she couldn’t go through with a loveless marriage while her actual love was walking her down the aisle.
Speaking of Emily, she was one of the inanest characters I have ever read about. I got, to an extent, her desperation to not be alone as her parents were murdered in a horrific burglary and her grandmother had passed away from cancer. I also understood that she lived a sheltered life and was relatively young and inexperienced. But with all the alternatives presented to her, what self-respecting person would choose the worst possible outcome? She constantly surrounded herself with toxic individuals and time after time again, gave in to their manipulations. Take her fiancé for example, who openly admitted that he only wanted to marry her for her wealth and whom Emily herself said that she no longer loved. He didn’t even change after the tumour was removed. He was the same old selfish, abusive asshole who threw a vase at her head (!) when he learned that she didn't want to marry him. Or Julie, the “bitch friend” whom Matt cheated on with and whom Emily disliked, yet she still agreed to let her plan her birthday party (which of course culminated into the embarrassing scene of Julie revealing to all their friends that Emily was in love with Jackson). Or Irene, Matt’s mother. The list kept going on and on, even in Part 2. I had no patience for her whining about woe is me. Nor did she get brownie points for recognizing that she was a marshmallow. Her refusal to set boundaries and her deliberately overlooking their behaviour meant that nothing would change; she should expect everyone to continue taking advantage of her. How she thought that the best decision for her child was to surround it with these people was beyond me. The best decision she could have made was to use all that wealth and go back to seeing a therapist.
The worst part of the novel was the romance (or lack thereof). The novel was written solely in Emily’s (juvenile) point of view, but I literally had no idea who Jackson was. His “personality” basically began and ended with his identity as a navy SEAL. They barely had any chemistry or romantic development. She only fell in love with him because he protected her and was a warm body that actually spent time with her. This only got worse in
Part 2.
In short, My Fiancé’s Brother was a clusterfuck of epic proportions. Odette literally selected the most theatrical plot twists that she could possibly conjure and she even managed to sprinkle in an attempted rape from the neighbourly “Throat Strangler”. None of the characters could be rooted for, particularly the delusional doormat of a heroine. -
Holy Crap, what roller coaster did I just get off of
This was good, now I gotta hurry back to the second book -
a bag of dramas. I loved it.
There is angst, there is heartbreak, there is a delicious Navy SEAL. It was dramatic and OTT in the best ways. -
I love a great romance. This book series was just what I needed this Summer. I adored the characters and Odette's ability to paint a perfect picture of each character is amazing. I love to be transported to dream-land once in a while, fantasize about yummy male characters. Odette and I clearly have the same taste in men!
I hear she is working on a third book. I cannot wait to read it!
Oh, finally, I never, ever read a book twice. I read these books twice! I did. And I have certain pages earmarked...for later. wink wink. -
This book (and the next) took my breath away. It was such an emotional rollercoaster, I’ll be feeling this whiplash for a long long time. Already looking forward to a re-read. I need all my friends to read this so I can cry and discuss and cry some more with y’all!!
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Book one was good!
I had no idea this was a duet until I got to the end, but I’m glad the author did it this way. Even with the cliffhanger. I feel like it gives the opportunity to know the characters instead of insta-love with all the problems wrapped in a pretty bow. -
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I don't even know where to start with this book. There are so many things that I loved about it and then there were others that left me absolutely angry at my book haha
I did not like Matt's mother at all and wished that Em would have said something to her. I love how protective in nature Jackson was even with the upbringing he had. I felt for Emily but at some point she became frustrating for me. You have to just put your big girl panties on and do something about it!!! Ugh and Matt, don't even get me started on his character. I am not sure I truly believe that everything was caused by the tumor thing. He was a complete ass even at the end of the book after everything. And yet here I am diving into the second book because I just have to find out what happened. -
3.5 Stars
A good storyline but it had characters that I felt at times were difficult to relate to.
Overall enjoyable and I will be reading book 2 as I need to see what's in store for Emily. -
4.5
What messy lives they all have, makes me glad for my boring one. I think I like this book so much because Jackson is so good to Emily. I have the white night syndrome, too many Disney movies. -
What??
Emily is a woman who is stuck in a bad relationship and doesn’t think she deserves more. Jackson shows up and she falls for him, but can’t seem to end her engagement to Matt. The ending is a cliff hanger…. -
The writing was a bit stiff and I didn't care for the h's weak character. As this was a debut and I've previewed one of the author's newer books I'll just move on to those.
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4.5
Just the angst level that I needed. Really enjoyed it!
Cliffy! -
This was a spontaneous find, thanks to Bibi, and surprisingly a good book.
It is rare that i like romances without a darker touch lately as well as pushover heroines. But this book still kept me engaged, because you saw growth. And that appealed to me.
It is well written, the characters are very interesting, compelling and heartfelt while dominating the story masterfully.
What i didn't like so much was the thought process of the heroine, constantly running in circles. It would have done less. -
Jackson is very attractive and likable the first book. He intrigued me and had me rooting for him this entire book 1.
Emily? Not so much! There is no possible reason for her being such a doormat to her horrible excuse of a fiancee. Really.
That being sad, on to the second book (I'll post in to the 2 book too):
