Just Say Yes: The Proposal by Kris Bryant

Just Say Yes: The Proposal
by Kris Bryant
Pages: Unknown
Date: June 1 2016
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Series: Wedding Novellas (1st in trilogy)

Review
Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0
Read: May 19 2016

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley and Bold Strokes Books in exchange for an honest review.

This short story is the third work that I’ve read by this author. Including this story here, the author now has an average rating of 3.83 (as in, everything I’ve read by them averages out to 3.83).

This story here is the part that some books dwell on extensively, though mostly seem to skip over. The part in the relationship when the two people in it have known each other for a while, and one or the other ‘pops the question’. And by skip, I mean that there are many romance books I’ve read (I’m not sure if I’d limit that to lesbian fiction or not) wherein two people come together, conflict, bounce off each other then . . . end of book but for the epilogue. And the epilogue is like a year later (more or less) and the two people are already married. Meaning the book skipped over the proposal and engagement period. This one’s just the proposal part. I hadn’t thought of it, but the prior book I read was an ‘engagement’ part type story – I hadn’t thought of it because the engagement was an accident.

This was a good solid book. Well rounded characters, for the most part. There were moments wherein I felt like I was in some kind of thriller, what with the pulse-racing moments attempting to ‘get things right’ and the like.

I keep calling this a short story, because I know it is one, though I am uncertain how long it actually is, pages wise.

Bah, I got distracted by things that do not really matter.

This story involves a local television reporter named Finn McCoy (the book description on Bold Strokes Books has it as Tessa Finnegan “Finn” McCoy, though I don’t recall the full name ever being used (ETA: ah, I see it got used once, the full name)) and paralegal Amber Kent. They have been together for four years and Finn sets about putting together the ‘perfect’ proposal for she wishes to marry Amber.

Ah, there it is – the reason I was on the publisher website. Okay then, the story is 20,000 words (odd, exactly 20,000 words?). And it is part one of the Wedding Novellas series (The Proposal (this book), The Planning (Keeping Time by Emily Smith), and The Wedding (Piece of Cake by Gun Brooke)). Three different couples (and authors) though.

Well, I think I’ve babbled long enough, inanely. I enjoyed the book.

May 19 2016