Bad Brides By Rebecca Chance

[amazon_link id=”147110172X” target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]’Bad Brides’ is the latest book by ‘Sunday Times’ best-selling author, Rebecca Chance.

Milly Gamble is an up-and-coming actress, and the perfect English flower child. At 23, she’s always been cast as the innocent heroine. But looks can deceive. Calculating and fiercely ambitious, Milly is determined to be the most famous star in England. And how better to achieve her goal than by dating Tarquin Ormond, lead singer of the biggest folk band of the moment? Tarquin is madly in love with Milly; Milly is only in love with herself. Brianna Jade is an all-American pageant girl. The daughter of Tamra Maloney, a stunning billionairess, Brianna is a sweet, pretty girl who is more than happy to go along with her mother’s ambitious plans for her. Now Tamra’s brought her to the UK and hooked her up with an Earl. He has a crumbling stately home and needs a rich wife to help restore it to its former glory. Tamra is as ambitious and determined as Brianna is sweet and innocent – is this more a case of mother-in-law-zilla than bridezilla? Both Milly and Brianna’s upcoming weddings will be huge, lavish events that garner national press. But with the cover of the biggest magazine in the country to be won, things are about to get very dirty.

I have read the majority of Rebecca’s books and they are all guaranteed to be glamorous, exotic and thrilling stories but I thought ‘Bad Brides’ was a book that was on a whole new level for Rebecca and deliciously risqué from the very start.

The story is seen from the perspective of the two leading ladies. two completely different characters that set the pages alight with their lives. Milly Jade is a character that you can easily loathe, marrying purely for the fame and riches, she will stop at nothing to make sure her wedding is the first wedding to appear on the cover of ‘Style Bride’ portrayed as a bohemian individual, she uses her best friend and underdog companion Eve, as a source of knowledge, aware that Eve is in love with Tarquin, her dreamy and poetic boyfriend, she uses it to her advantage. Incessantly vain, self absorbed and annoyingly interesting, Milly was the perfect competition for young Brianna Jade. Unfortunately nicknamed BJ, Brianna is the sweetheart of the story, wonderfully sweet and naive, a pageant queen with a determined mother that she will have her front cover no matter the consequences. Brianna makes an unlikely candidate for the cover of Style Bride, having no interest at all in style or glamour, she is simply content with having found her Prince Charming, in the shape of handsome and courteous Earl, Edmund. A dashing, well bred man with manners and the love for the outdoors. Delighted that the couple have a mutual love for agriculture, they enjoy their common ground and look forward to the future that beckons in front of them.

But of course in true Rebecca Chance style of writing, the path of true love never runs smoothly and with more twists than you can shake a stick at, this book left you gasping for more!

Although the story is primarily seen through the eyes of Milly and Brianna Jade, Rebecca adds the inclusion of a few more characters to the story to spice it up a little, in the form of Tamra, Brianna Jade’s most lusted after mother and a friend from Brianna Jade’s past who decides to make an unwelcome appearance.

Packed with illicit love affairs, backstabbing and handsome farmers, Rebecca has truly packed a punch with this book, with some graphic sex scenes and language that genuinely left me red faced or giggling on a packed bus, I couldn’t put it down! Filled with drama, scandal and a dash of romance, ‘Bad Bride’s’ is perfect escapism and filthy read!

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