Mira Lyn Kelly - Waking Up Married

Okaaaayyy. Now THAT was disappointing. Talk about an anticlimactic ending. I mean, all the heroine wanted was a baby and the book ends without her getting it? WTF? That's just mean. Also, I hate it when authors just decide to quickly wrap up the conflict between the hero and heroine in the last couple pages of the book. It's like book whiplash. Also, the characters deserve more than just a couple pages of conflict resolution when THE WHOLE BOOK was about their problems, but the resolution is only a couple pages? NOT. COOL. I also didn't like that Megan wanted a baby so much but at the end she's just like "Why don't we wait a couple months, maybe a year to have the baby" And Connor was super disappointed and hurt but then he just brushes it off and then the book ends. Yeah. Talk about a crappy ending. It left me wanting so much. If there had been an epilogue or something where it's two years later and Megan is nine months pregnant or something I would have been a lot more appeased. Oh well. 

Anyways, so the book starts out with Megan bent over a toilet because she had so much to drink the night before and is now paying the price. Connor is there with her, explaining to her what happened the night before and how they ended up married. We then get a flashback to the night before. Megan is in Vegas for her cousin Gail's wedding, and that night she is at a club with Gail's two other bridesmaids as a kind of get-to-know-you outing. There, she meets Connor. Originally, her plan was to walk up to him to ask him if he would walk out of the club with her to make the other bridesmaids think that she's gonna get some. But, things don't go as planned when Connor actually invites her to sit down and talk to him. Throughout the night, they get to know each other and realize that both of them don't believe in love and they both want a child. So Connor decides that she is "the one", but not in the sense that she is his soul mate. It is in the sense that she has the same goals and outlook as he does, and he knows that they can build a life together where they are a family and they offer each other comfort and friendship, but not love. So Connor whisks Megan to a Vegas chapel to get married. The problem is that Megan wakes up the next morning not being able to remember much and panicking because she slept with a stranger (They actually didn't do anything though). Although she wants a divorce, Connor is determined to convince her to give the marriage a try, and tells her all the reasons they discussed last night of why it's a good idea for them to remain married. Megan then agrees to give the marriage a trial period of three months, but NO SEX. Connor, of course, is confident that he can seduce her, and he does. So Megan moves into his apartment and starts living with him. However, doubts and insecurities soon start to plague her  when Connor keeps being this "perfect husband" who doesn't get mad at anything and disregards all her little quirks and annoying habits. Megan starts worrying that he's so determined to make the marriage work that he is purposely ignoring all the stuff that bugs him about her. After they finally fight it out and Megan decides to trust him, she also decides she is ready to have a baby with him. Just when they're about to do it, Connor sees love for him shining in Megan's eyes, which is a deal breaker. Since he is not capable of loving her, Megan decides to move out and divorce him, since she cannot bear the pain of loving someone who will never love her back. But of course, romance books always having a happy ending, and Connor realizes that he has been miserable since she left and it is because he loves her. And so a happy, but crappy, ending.             

I wish I had picked up a different book to read, this one really wasted my time. Oh well, it happens, it's definitely not the first time and it won't be the last. Until next time!

Book Love,

Lena