About this book:
“When a washed-up pop star inherits a wedding planning business, it’s
all bouquets and bliss until a bride turns up dead.
Paisley Sutton shot to stardom as a
teenage rock sensation, but ten years later that star has fizzled
out, just like her bank account. When she unexpectedly inherits her aunt’s
wedding planning business, Paisley leaves the glamour of Los Angeles for a charming
small town in Arkansas. Thinking she’ll arrive in Sugar Creek and liquidate the
moldly property, Paisley’s shocked to find Enchanted Events has experienced a
major makeover and is now the place for brides. She’s got two months to keep
Enchanted Events afloat if she wants to sell and rekindle her music career with
the profits.
Paisley’s tossed into a world of vows
and venues, but her most difficult challenge comes in the form of one demanding
bride. When this Bridezilla’s found facedown in her cake, all fingers point to
Paisley as the prime murder suspect. And she does not look good in prison
orange.
This former pop princess will need the
help of her gun-toting, ex-CIA grandmother and her handsome neighbor, Beau
Hudson, to unravel the mystery and clear her good name. As she and her unruly
posse dig into Bridezilla’s life, she discovers the woman had a long list of
enemies. The closer Paisley gets to the truth, the more her own life is in
danger.
Love is in the air this wedding season,
but before Paisley can help the ladies of Sugar Creek say, “I do,” she’s got to
unveil a killer. Or find herself the next target.”
Series: Book #1 in the “Enchanted Events”
series.
Spiritual Content- Prayers; Thanking God a few of times; Some ‘H’s are capital when
referring to God; Mentions of God & Jesus; Mentions of prayers &
praying; Mentions of chapels, churches, church going, church events, Sunday
school classes, Bible studies, sermons, & pastors; A few mentions of prayer
meetings; A few mentions of being baptized & a youth group; A few mentions
of hymns; A couple mentions of Heaven; A couple mentions of saints; A couple
mentions of sin; A mention of being blessed; A mention of a deacon; A mention
of spiritual warfare; A mention of holy water; A mention of Hail Mary prayers; A
mention of someone crossing;
*Note: A few mentions of angels,
dark angels, & demons; A few mentions of zen; A couple mentions of
religious extremists & cult leaders; A couple mentions of devilishly
handsome men; A couple mentions of miracle working powers; A mention of the
witching hour; A mention of an NFL god; A mention of voodoo dolls; A mention of
ghosts; A mention of a portal of hell.
Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘BS’, a ‘darn it’, a ‘heck’, a
‘witch’, two ‘shoot’s, three ‘darn’s, three forms of ‘dumb’, three ‘oh my gosh’s,
five ‘geez’s, six ‘gosh’s, six forms of ‘screw up’, eight ‘stupid’s, 9 forms of
‘crap’; Sass, Sarcasm, & Eye rolling; Finding a body, blood, & being
accused of murder (up to semi-detailed); Pain, Being attacked, bleeding, fighting,
injuries, passing out, & a fire (up to semi-detailed); A break-in (up to
semi-detailed); Many mentions of a body, blood, the murder, & the killer
(up to semi-detailed); Many mentions of drinking, champagne, a bottle as a
murder weapon, & needing a bottle to drink; Mentions of past wars, fighting
wars, deaths, sniper fire, injuries, & pain (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions
of setting a place on fire, planning to murder someone, & injuries
(barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of terrorists, bombs/explosives, &
spies; Mentions of criminals, prisons, jails, & being arrested; Mentions of
DUI, a car crash, & being arrested; Mentions of threats & blackmail; Mentions
of stealing; Mentions of cocaine/crack, drugs & medications/prescriptions; Mentions
of drunks, bars, alcohol/booze, moonshine, beers, whiskey, wine, & cocktails;
Mentions of gambling & betting; Mentions of loans, loan sharks, debts, beatings
& expecting one; Mentions of a break-in, burglar, & torn-up stuff; Mentions
of slashed tires; Mentions of nightmares & yelling out; Mentions of gossip
& rumors; Mentions of lies, lying, & liars; Mentions of roadkill &
hunting; A few mentions of a drunk party (that didn’t happen); A couple
mentions of serial killers; A couple mentions of suicides; A couple mentions of
an internment camp; A couple mentions of spiking drinks; A couple mentions of a
liquor store; A couple mentions of divorce; A couple mentions of cigarettes; A
couple mentions of tattoos; A couple mentions of diarrhea; A couple mentions of
a urine sample; A couple mentions of cheating on a test; A mention of mobsters;
A mention of robbing a bank; A mention of poison; A mention of a drunken
college rave; A mention of wild parties; A mention of tobacco; A mention of
throwing up; A mention of dog pee; A mention of needing to pee; A mention of
being gassy;
*Note: Mentions of celebrities/singers
(Elvis, Cher, Madonna, Beyoncé, Adele, Lady Gaga, Olivia Newton John, Oprah, the
Kardashians, Jay Z, Justin Timberlake, George Strait, Idris Elba, Jerry
Springer, Richard Simmons, George Clooney, & Wes Craven); Mentions of bands
(Rolling Stones & Aerosmith); Mentions of brand-names (Justin, Ray-Bans, Ralph
Lauren, BMW, & Mercedes-Benz); A few mentions of Barbie dolls; A couple
mentions of serial killer characters (Freddy Krueger & Jason Voorhees); A couple
mentions of People magazine; A mention of Starbucks; A mention of Girl Scouts; A
mention of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream; A mention of Jeopardy!; A mention of an
alien invasion.
Sexual Content- three cheek kisses,
an almost (semi-detailed) kiss, and a very-detailed kiss; Remembering a kiss
(up to semi-detailed); Touches, Dancing, Embraces, Heat, & Nearness (up to
semi-detailed); Noticing, Smelling, & Butterflies (up to semi-detailed); a
‘bimbo’, a ‘hot stuff’, a ‘rake’, two ‘babe’s, nine ‘hot’s, nine ‘sexy’s; Mentions of a ‘Sexy Book Club’ with
senior women reading hot romances (barely-above-not-detailed mentions about a
man’s pecs & kissing techniques; it’s mentioned about something dirty said,
the ladies also fan themselves); Mentions of smutty romance books; Mentions of
affairs & infidelity; Mentions of a college girl’s crush on a her married
professor (she dressed in a provocative outfit once; they did have an affair at
one point, however); Mentions of making out sessions, lip locking, &
canoodling; Mentions of an almost kiss (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of
kisses & a bad kisser (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of touches
& not touching (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of a cheating
ex-fiancé; Mentions of boyfriends, girlfriends, stealing a friend’s boyfriend, dating,
dates, breakups, & exes; Mentions of flirting; A few mentions of
reputations & compromising a girl; A few mentions of morals &
compromising them; A couple mentions of winks; A couple mentions of jealousy; A
mention of a man’s voice being “rumpled-sheets sexy’; A mention of an
invitation to join someone in bed; A mention of the police being in bed with
the Russians; A mention of a man seducing every woman in a town; A mention of a
harem; A mention of a girl’s fantasies (nothing said); A mention of wanting to
throw yourself to a guy; A mention of a man that women want to devour; A
mention of hanky-panky; A mention of a bachelorette party where a man leaps out
from a cake in his skivvies (it doesn’t happen); A mention of a Sexy Single
Seniors group & a profile picture showing lots of skin; A mention of
lingerie for a honeymoon; A mention of a mother running off after having a baby
at age seventeen; Love, falling in love & the emotions;
*Note: Beau catches Paisley coming
out of the bathroom wearing a towel that “barely
covered up the goods” (it’s mentioned that he lingers looking at her legs,
but nothing else is mentioned sexually); Many mentions of bras, boobs (along
with slang for them), & strapless dresses; A few mentions of underwear
& unmentionables; A few mentions of skin-tight clothes; A couple mentions
of curves & figures; A couple mentions of a butt bow on a dress; A couple
mentions of feminine productions; A couple mentions of pole dancing; A couple
mentions of a man in a cross-dressing cabaret; A couple mentions of “a
well-placed knee to [a man’s] manly bits” (it didn’t happen); A mention of
kicking a man in his “squishy parts”; A mention of women thinking a guy isn’t
straight (he is, though); A mention of paternity suits; A mention of a drag
queen convention; A mention of female wiles; A mention of shooting dynamite at
a person’s tochus; A mention of working a butt off; A mention of wearing booty
shorts.
-Paisley Sutton, age 28(?)
1st person P.O.V. of
Paisley
361 pages
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My personal
Rating-
Jenny B. Jones has always been an
author I’ll watch. She has a talent for lots of sass and sarcasm with detailed,
zany characters. Unfortunately, there’s always some content that I think could
have been left out or comments that didn’t need to be said.
I don’t want to give this book a
one-star rating. I never want to give a one-star rating. It’s so disappointing
and sad and discouraging when I have to give a low rating because of content. {Especially
one with such a great cover. I adore the colors and style of this cover.} But
the thing is: I can’t, I just can’t,
give a book that accepts smutty romance books as okay—something BFCG is highly
against—a rating anything higher than one-star.
See y’all on Wednesday with a new
review!
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this
author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
