Reviews for The Bridegroom's Dilemma

The average rating for The Bridegroom's Dilemma based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-07 00:00:00 Christina Long [ The hero flies her home from the house party in his private plane, but first he stops off at an exclusive resort and there they resume their physical relationship. The heroine knows they haven't progressed as a couple, but she is hopeful . . . Until the hero again shuts down any talk of marriage or settling down. The heroine returns home - on a commercial flight. She fills her time with working on her latest cookbook and cooking at her mother's restaurant. The next time she sees the hero, he is in the restaurant with the OW and the rest of his family, celebrating his sister's engagement. The sister's fiance is intrigued with the heroine and invites her to the wedding. The hero's father, it turns out, is angry at the hero for letting her go and for not settling down and taking over the company. The hero is angry with the father and (unfairly) the heroine for pushing him in directions he doesn't want to go. At a family party he tells the heroine all of this and she finally understands how hopeless it is for the hero to change. The father dies that night of a heart attack. The heroine finds out the hero is hurting because he didn't make up with his father before his death. She still has the key to his apartment and sneaks into cook him a meal and wait for him to return from a business trip. He's not too happy to see her, but she persists in her seduction and tells him what she's learned about love - that she needs him as he is and that the sense of security has to come from within herself - not him. Hero has also been thinking and realizes he was being selfish and putting a lot of his angst about his father on the heroine. They decide to give it another go. There is a fast forward twelve months. They are married and have a newborn. Hero is happy with the baby - and has lots of adventurous plans for their future. HEA. (hide spoiler)]

Review # 2 was written on 2018-05-31 00:00:00 Sandra Hernandez I've read this one before and it was worth revisiting for me. 2 people who seem to be in love on the surface but the relationship needs work as neither shows their true selves to the other. I have to say the H seems more at fault than the h as he seemed pretty immature and manipulative from the start of the relationship and all the h did was show him the side of her he seemed attracted to. The book starts with our happy couple having been together around a year and only weeks away from their wedding. They are both media darlings somewhat (hes rich and shes a TV chef) and after she makes a comment about having kids which he evades it turns out they aren't right for each other at all and break up. A chance meeting several weeks later and H is towing around an old family friend OW while the h has date who is firmly in the friendzone. H is seen as the "villain" who has broken the heart of Australia's darling h and his dad is pretty cheesed off with him too and they aren't really speaking. Its actually quite sad because you can see these 2 are made for each other but are too scared to "change". Bonus points to the H as he never actually takes the OW to bed although we are left wondering for a while. Things come to a head and they totally part after a few more tears but then he more or less manipulates her back into an affair. She finally gets a grip and totally kicks him to kerb which makes him even more of a villain in the eyes of Australia and daddy dearest is even crosser. A few more weeks pass and they bump into each other again and his sister enlists the h's help to try smooth things over with her family as shes preggers and getting married. Of course Mary Sue Skye helps out to the anger of the H and the gratefulness of his family. Then Pops dies in his sleep the same night and H is all guilty that he deceived his dad and he died without reconciliation. h tells him to get a grip and just go with it shes happy with him whatever crumbs he decided to dish out as she loves him anyway and we get the huge love admission where he has been sobbing into her smelly bathrobe. On the surface he doesn't really deserve her, he is a spoiled whiny brat but his dad's death does make him grow up and realise what he has so I do believe that they have their HEA. Nice little epilogue where he finally "gets it"