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Destination: Marriage

Trouble In Paradise\Biting The Apple\A Venetian Affair

by Jill Marie Landis, Jo Leigh, Jackie Braun

Published 2008352 pagesISBN 978-0-3738-3725-0

The Jinxed BrideTalk about bad bridal juju. Carrie Evans is in Hawaii for a dream getaway wedding--with rain, a missing dress and absent guests. Is there enough Hawaiian magic to turn these nightmarish nuptials into the best day of her life? The Accidental Bride Aspiring journalist Trish Avalon has just won a fantasy wedding in Manhattan. But there's a small problem: Trish isn't engaged. Getting to New York is her dream, though, so she'll convince her high school sweetheart to be her groom...just for the week And the Reluctant Bride Dayle Alexander is about to get married, so why isn't she jumping in the aisle? After all, her fiance is stable...unlike her unsettlingly hot business partner, Max Kinnick. But when business takes them to Venice, Dayle realizes she can't have the perfect wedding until Max becomes her perfect groom

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Fiction · Romance

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

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ToneBalanced
LuminousDark

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Destination: MarriageJill Marie Landis, Jo Leigh, Jackie Braun
Powerful4.4/5

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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA standard-length read352 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2008
Primary categoryFictionAlso cataloged under Romance
ISBN-13
978-0-3738-3725-0
Language
English
Edition record
OL10750262M
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Good to know

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.