GRR Reviews Stop the Wedding by Patricia Kay

Stop the Wedding was a story about a choice between love and revenge, that had a rushed ending and a very lame and a grand gesture that was simply not believable.

Nick Petrillo is back in Green River to exact his revenge on the Blair family, ten years after he was arrested on trumped-up charges, then run out of town for loving Kristin Blair, and so brutally betrayed by her when he was confronted with a Dear John note. Having made a ton of money as one of the best mutual fund managers, he had bought up enough stock to control Blair Manufacturing, and the stockholder's meeting was one day before Kristin's wedding to her fiancee Doug. He did not count on his feelings for Kristin resurfacing, or that she was just as betrayed by her family... She believed he had taken money from her family to leave her, and she can never tell him about their daughter, who was raised as a 4th sister (late baby) rather than a daughter. But when push comes to shove, can Nick forgive the past and plan for the future? Or will Nick's thirst for revenge cost him the only woman he loved?

WARNING: Spoiler ahead

Nick's grand gesture was to act like he's going to take over, then without a word, signed over all the share's proxy rights to Kristin (i.e. I'm not going to take over after all). Really? You planned your revenge for 10 years, then upon seeing the Kristin, and you just, like that, change your mind? The resolution was way too simple a hushed up, when the rest of the family, esp. the father who STILL called Nick trailer-trash right up to the shareholder meeting, suddenly had no objections when Doug backed out of the wedding and Nick was quickly substituted for the HEA.

This book feels as if the writer wrote herself into a corner and had to close out the book in a hurry.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Guys is back in town to seek revenge after 10 years; will he give up to re-connect with girl instead?

Tropes: revenge, reunion, return, different worlds, enemies to lovers

Overall Rating:  3/5