"Amusing chick lit tale"

A decade has passed since Kiki Douglas won Miss Texas and was first runner-up in the Miss America contest. She has since been on several soap operas with her character always ending up dead. Currently out of work, she plans to go home to Fredericksburg to attend her brother's wedding to a Jersey girl in which she hopes to bring some class to the reception although one of the other bridesmaids was her ex-husband's lawyer in the divorce.

The New York Post catches her in a provocative pose with rising music superstar Tom Brock, making it seem sleazy as he is married. They make quite a scandal in which the town's gross DJs label Kylie the most hated woman in Manhattan. Calling her a housebreaker and other vile names, the worst comment is they inform the world she is soap opera has been at thirty four. Heeding her best friend's advice Kylie hides in a hotel where she meets the playboy owner Maurizio Tomb. As they fall in love, both misjudges the depths of compassion of the other as the media paints both as shallow hedonists.

This amusing chick lit tale stars a female who seems schizoid at times, a tabloid delightful bimbo turning into a Socrates clone advising her pals and her beloved. Though linked to the overall wedding of the Bridesmaid Chronicles the story line never really ties back to book one FIRST DATE by Karen Kendall. Still the lead couple is a fine pairing of two individuals much deeper than the media's air brushed fifteen second sound bite.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 2, 2005

Summary

Take one wedding. Add three bridesmaids. And you get four sexy and sassy tales of modern-day romance. From first glance to "I do," this wedding party is learning about love the hard way—but taking it all in stride straight down the aisle...

Kiki Sonntag, an out-of-work actress and former Miss Texas, takes it upon herself to save her brother's wedding from bad taste. But she can't save herself from a nasty tabloid scandal. Until it blows over, she's hiding out in manhattan's hippest new hotel—and enjoying some perks from its playboy owner.