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Lucas Wilder’s best friend is a traitor. First, Audrey moved back to their hick-infested hometown, Bluewater Bay, and now she’s marrying a local. His own brother, in fact. And as her man of honor, Lucas gets coerced into returning for an extended stay. Although, between his unfaithful ex-boyfriend and his artist’s block, going home isn’t the worst thing that could happen. Even if the best man is Gabriel Savage, Lucas’s first crush, first hookup, and first heartbreak.

The only reason Gabe hasn’t been waiting for Lucas to return to Bluewater Bay is because he never thought it’d happen. Not that it matters now that Lucas is back—Gabe’s still a logger who’s never been anywhere (Canada doesn’t count), and Lucas is now a famous sculptor who’s been everywhere twice. Plus, there’s that shared past.

When Audrey asks Lucas to make her wedding favors, the only place to set up a kiln is at Gabe’s tree farm. Soon, they pick up where they left off twelve years before, then blow past it, discovering why neither of them forgot the other. Now they have to choose how much of their history they’ll repeat, and what future they’ll make together.

Review

I wanted to read about Gabe and Lucas because of reading Seth's romance in a later book in the series. 

Seth is Gabe's hook up here. Gabe treats him pretty badly in this book. 

While the sex scene are hot here and I like the professions of the two heros as well as the settings and side characters, I never really like them. 

They didn't communicate well with each other or themselves in the past and they don't know.

It is irrupting. LOL. And they are still fairly not great with other people. Lucas is a bit socially awkward and internal but Ternino doesn't quite pull off these character traits for me to make up for when he is a jerk and Gabe is callous about everyone but Lucas and then thinks he knows what is best for everyone. Not attractive. 

The parts of the book where Gabe and Lucas are attuned (in bed mostly) are great but the rest is neh to grrrr,

'Wedding Favors' is the seventh book in 'The Bluewater Bay' series and while I have fallen a bit behind with this series. I still keep buying the books because one day I will get back to them and get caught up and listening to this audio book simply confirmed that I need to do this.

As I frequently do with audio books that I've previously read here's the link to my original review...

Bluewater Bay #7 Wedding Favors - E-book Review

You might notice that I originally gave this one 4 stars, I really enjoyed it. It's a cute, fun second chance story by Anne Tenino but I have to admit add in narration by Nick J. Russo and that was all that was needed to push this up to a five star experience for me. Seriously I was laughing out loud and talking to the characters...good thing I was home alone or someone might have ordered me a new jacket in white with really long sleeves. This one went from enjoyable to a whole lot of hella' good fun for me and the sexy times...oh, lordie! Mr. Russo nailed those...there might have been a bit of replay going on...honestly Lucas and Gabe...damn, just damn! Sooooo HOT!

Best of all though was the scene where Lucas and Audrey are tasting wine...seriously laugh out loud stuff there folks and if you've read the book you know what I'm talking about.

Like any good piece of art, you need to start with good material but even then if you don't know what you're doing things can go wrong...horribly, horribly wrong. I'm very happy to say Nick Russo knows what he's doing. Even if you don't want to start a new series the wonderful thing about the 'Bluewater Bay' series is each book truly stands on it's own you can read one and thoroughly enjoy it without benefit of having read the rest of them and if you're looking to check out a well done audio book and possibly a new to you narrator (if you've never heard Mr. Russo before) I highly recommend 'Wedding Favors'. 

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An audiobook of 'Wedding Favors' was graciously provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I know that Wedding Favors is only my second read by Anne Tenino so far, but darn if I didn’t really like it! I mean, if I’m being fair here I can’t say that there was anything super deep or intense. There wasn’t any earth shattering characters or a mind blowing plot. What it had was two cute guys with good chemistry falling in love, and sometimes what could be better than that?!

Plot-wise, a lot of drama and heartache could have been saved if Lucas and Gabe had just talked to each other about their current situation AND their history. Like human beings are always open and honest about where they’re at emotionally, right?. We’re especially closed off if we anticipate that the truth will only lead to more hurt. None of the actions, I thought, were unrealistic and it all led to a happy ending so I was a happy reader.

Lucas’s ‘craft’ or what normal people call artwork was spectacular. I would love to have been able to manifest his sculptures in the real world and bring them home. I think it was really creative of Anne Tenino to put so much thought into the type of art that Lucas created. (Puzzle sculptures, man that’s brilliant. I want that darn horse!)

I think the only aspect of the story that I didn’t enjoy was the character Audrey. Speaking frankly, she was a bitch. She wasn’t very nice, and in particular I didn’t think she was very nice to Lucas. There’s a fine line between cute/funny snark and just a straight up meany-head. Audrey was a meany-head.

In closing, I enjoyed Wedding Favors. It doesn’t hold a candle to Too Stupid to Live but it definitely showed me that Anne isn’t a one trick pony, and I’m eager to try another one of her books.

Thank you to Riptide Publishing and Netgalley for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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