Happy Ever After (Book Four in the Bride Quartet)
Page 47: “Parks, your excuses are so lame, they’re limping.”
Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts is the fourth book in the Bride Quartet.
Once again, we meet with childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac, but this time it’s a wrap! Here’s a quick recap:
Book 1 is about Mackensie “Mac” Elliot who is a photographer and her love interest Carter Maguire Ph.D. who is an English professor.
Book 2 takes us into the world of Emmaline “Emma” Grant who is a florist and Jack Cooke who is an architect (and a long-time family friend).
Book 3 lets us we experience the relationship between Laurel McBane who is a wedding baker and Delaney “Del” Brown who is an Ivy League lawyer.
In Book 4, we get a taste of Parker Brown (Del’s sister and the brains behind Vows) and Malcolm “Mal” Kavanaugh (the gorgeous Harley bike hunk of a mechanic). I had a love-hate relationship with Happy Ever After. I love Malcolm’s bad boy personality and wittiness, and I also worship Parker’s efficiency and multi-tasking ability. She is super organized and there is nothing she cannot handle. What I do NOT love, though, is the lengthy wedding planning and execution details. I admit I skipped pages when I see those parts coming. I did enjoy them in the beginning; however, it got tiresome after a while.
Having said the above, I loved the way Parker articulates and paints the picture of her client’s perfect wedding. Parker would go through all that trouble researching her clients and because she is such a wonderfully organized person, I also want to emulate her efficiency. She inspires me in that way.
Malcolm calls Parker “Legs” and rightly so because she has legs to die for. Now, if I could have her legs AND brains combined with Mac’s (in Book 1) show-stopping arms, I would be in heaven.
How about Malcolm? What makes him so desirable? This is Parker’s description of him on page 50: “Hot, primal, rough-edged. Motorcycle and leather, torn denim and cocky grins. Hard hands, a hungry mouth.” Do you now see what I mean?
I think the story is OK but it somehow didn’t meet my expectation for a great wrap-up. ‘Something’ is missing in this final instalment.
Related Posts:
Vision in White (Book One in The Bride Quartet)
Bed of Roses (Book Two in The Bride Quartet)
Savor the Moment (Book Three in The Bride Quartet)
