Loved this book!!! Gia is a fashion model rapidly approaching 30 and is feeling the cost of maintaining her figure on her body. Bennett is a chef with rigid ideas about treating others with care. They meet at the airport when their flight is cancelled due to snow and alternate flights are days away. Thus begins their crazy journey traveling from New York to Florida to be in a wedding. Somehow, they begin to get along and and see how their broken pieces might fit together. However, Gia refuses to be in a relationship and will sleep with a man no more twice. Bennett refuses to participate in casual sex. They are at an impasse and the sparks are flying between them....there was so much sizzle that I'm surprised my kindle didn't ignite.

This is a poignant, and, at times, sad story, as both Gia's and Bennett's back stories are heartbreaking. Even worse, is the casual way that Gia accepts the crazy dieting and sexual harassment/abuse prevalent in the industry. This is balanced out by the humor and love shown them by their friends. Ultimately, this is a tale about the strength these two characters have and how they can be stronger together, if they can just find a way to take a chance.

This is a must read for fans of the genre. The author is on my must read authors' list and, while I've enjoyed all of her books, this one has more depth than most of her other novels and tugged on my heart strings.

This book series is very sexually explicit, which I know is not for everyone and I had not read anything like this before.  


I liked both Gia and Bennett's characters, I liked how they made each other better and how they had dreams together.  I liked how they resolved issues with their parents.  I really liked Bennett's character and I enjoyed a man who didn't do casual relationships and a woman who does for a change.  I loved all of the references to contemporary things - like Bon Jovi's pay-what-you-can or work for dinner restaurant JBJ Soul Kitchen.  I feel like those references make the story seem more real.  

I would recommend this to anyone who has read and enjoyed this series or anyone who likes romance and doesn't mind sexually explicit scenes.

Sweet, fun, and sexy! The author uses a role reversal in this one too making it feel original and fun. Normally, it's the men in romance books that don't "do relationships" and the women that want a commitment. Not in this case. It was a breath of fresh air! This may even be my favorite of the series!

I have been dying to read Bennett's story since the moment Wendy and Noah walked into his restaurant in It Takes Two. I'm pretty sure I finished that book and immediately went hunting for the blurb for the next book in the series (this book!) and let out a very loud whoop of joy when I saw the leading man would, in fact, be the hot chef with the Cajun restaurant and just dripping with Southern charm. YES. All the yes. It was also really wonderful to get to know more about Gia, who I feel like was more of a mystery than the other women in the Fab Four that makes up the group of friends this series centers around (likely because her job causes her to travel all over the world so she's not always there supporting the main character in the first few books except when she can jet in or via video chat.

I *love* how real and complicated and multidimensional both Gia and Bennett are, and how just totally messed up in completely different ways they are and yet how they just *click*. Feeling like characters are real actual people that I'd want to be friends with, people I'm rooting for and watching struggle and learn and grow, is a major factor in whether or not I connect with a book, and this entire series is just filled with people that I feel like I want to be best friends with. None of them are perfect, and they are all perfect in their imperfections. Gia and Bennett especially are the very embodiment of what it means to love someone not in spite of their flaws, but to love them more because of them. Gia is this amazing problem-solver and she's so wrapped up in the people who only see her for her (admittedly gorgeous) surface that she can't see how *glorious* she is under the surface, and it's like she has problems with her self-worth and then feels bad because she feels like she doesn't deserve to think she has problems, and AHHHHH I want to punch her and hug her at the same time. Gia is struggling with some really major issues with her career, her body, her self-worth, and Bennett is also struggling with his past, his family, his own sense of responsibility and ethics... In some ways they're very much opposites, but in other ways they're so similar, because they're both so determined to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders all on their own.

Despite dealing with some really serious issues, this book is also so *fun*. As Bennett observes a few times, when Gia is in she is ALL IN, and she's hilarious. Bennett isn't half bad himself, and hijinks definitely ensue. Definitely read this if you like a good contemporary romance with some opposites attract tension along with some stranded together, road trip action as these two try to make it to the church on time!

This is the third (and final) book in the Bridesmaids Behaving Badly series. While it can technically be read as a standalone, the relationship between Gia and the three other women who are the leads in the other books (2 full length novels and 2 novellas) are so close knit and interwoven, you really get the most effect if you read the series in order and get to know all the characters. I loved the glimpses into Wendy, Jane, and Elise's Happy Ever Afters I got in this book that I know I wouldn't have appreciated nearly so much if I hadn't read the other books in the series first.