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It is impossible to review these two e-novellas separately. They are two halves of a whole (Anne and Danny, I’m looking at you). I’m giving The Wedding From Hell collectively 4.5 Stars.

 

You can read the synopsis for Part 1 HERE and Part 2 HERE.

 

The Wedding From Hell is a two-part mini series that introduces readers to the heroine and hero, Anne Ashburn and Danny McGuire, to J.R. Ward’s new series Consumed, coming October 2018. 

 

In Part 1: The Rehearsal Dinner we jump straight into the drama with a bridezilla stomping her feet and throwing a tantrum you’d expect from a two-year old who won’t share their toys. Anne Ashburn is a member of the 499, a fire house department in New Brunswick, and her colleague ‘Moose’ is the lucky husband-to-be. Anne and Danny are thrown together in a range of complicated, dangerous and tense scenes that have Ward’s signature style written all over; from fast, edge of the seat fight scenes, and hot, steamy romance. It’s great!

There’s immediate chemistry between Anne and Danny. It’s not an insta-love, and Ward is a master in dragging her readers through the ringers until we get to that sweet spot. Both our heroine and hero are fuelled by their passion, but both have their pasts gripping on tight. For Danny, he’s given up the ‘play-boy’ life and he’s got his sights set on Anne. But Anne refuses to let herself think too fondly of Danny, she knows about his past and she’s worked to hard to throw it all away for one man.

 

In Part 2: The Reception readers see both Anne and Danny in a vulnerable state, their conflicting emotions keep on building in a will-they-won’t-they climax. Anne puts her walls up – all the way up – in Part 2 and this was something I really related to. Anne has been taught since a young age that anything that can be given by another, something you then become reliant on, can be taken away and so she’s learnt to rely solely on her own. I’ve read J.R Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series, and Anne is the first female I’ve seen part of myself reflected back at me. Her refusal to get down and dirty, putting everything she’s worked for on the line really stood out to me and it’s something I’m excited to see develop in Consumed.

 

In all, The Wedding From Hell is an EXPLOSIVE beginning to Consumed, and promises this new series to be more dangerous, more hotter and more sexier than these treats.

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