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Summary: Everything but love or is it?
Review: Being in love with someone is a beautiful experience, but it could be a nightmare if the person isn't aware of your feelings. To top it off, you're not brave enough to come out and own up to your feelings, so you just sit by and let your best friend make moves on him; not sure if what he feels is more than friendship. So what happens when he proposes to her and yet, you still love him? What do you do? Nikita Daniels does nothing, instead she prepares herself to stand beside her friend at their wedding and watch the man she loves, Michael Matheson, become unreachable to her forever. And, just when she thinks there's no stopping the wedding, something happens and Michael is left with no bride, but is stuck with a two-week honeymoon cruise that is already paid in full. He doesn't want to waste the ticket, so he asks Nikita to join him and expects her to provide a friendly ear and continue being the friend she's been throughout the years and help him accept how the wedding ended. Nikita accepts knowing that he has no idea how she feels about him and sets herself up for two weeks alone in a honeymoon suite with Michael. Will she finally tell him how she feels and how will he react? EVERYTHING BUT LOVE was a bit predictable to me as well as a conflict of interest with my "friendship meter". I simply couldn't imagine doing this to a friend no matter how much I thought I loved the guy. The saving point in the story is that Dunbar does an excellent job throwing in twists to keep it interesting as well as accurately depicting things we go through when trying to win over someone we love. It was a nice, romantic story that held my interest, but I would've enjoyed it more if Michael hadn't been about to marry her best friend. Reviewed by Tee C. Royal
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
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Summary: Everything but love or is it?
Review: Being in love with someone is a beautiful experience, but it could be a nightmare if the person isn't aware of your feelings. To top it off, you're not brave enough to come out and own up to your feelings, so you just sit by and let your best friend make moves on him; not sure if what he feels is more than friendship. So what happens when he proposes to her and yet, you still love him? What do you do? Nikita Daniels does nothing, instead she prepares herself to stand beside her friend at their wedding and watch the man she loves, Michael Matheson, become unreachable to her forever. And, just when she thinks there's no stopping the wedding, something happens and Michael is left with no bride, but is stuck with a two-week honeymoon cruise that is already paid in full. He doesn't want to waste the ticket, so he asks Nikita to join him and expects her to provide a friendly ear and continue being the friend she's been throughout the years and help him accept how the wedding ended. Nikita accepts knowing that he has no idea how she feels about him and sets herself up for two weeks alone in a honeymoon suite with Michael. Will she finally tell him how she feels and how will he react? EVERYTHING BUT LOVE was a bit predictable to me as well as a conflict of interest with my "friendship meter". I simply couldn't imagine doing this to a friend no matter how much I thought I loved the guy. The saving point in the story is that Dunbar does an excellent job throwing in twists to keep it interesting as well as accurately depicting things we go through when trying to win over someone we love. It was a nice, romantic story that held my interest, but I would've enjoyed it more if Michael hadn't been about to marry her best friend. Reviewed by Tee C. Royal
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
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Summary: Circumstance can change in the blink of an eye.
Review: How would it feel to know your best friend is going to marry the man you love? How would you feel if you knew that they didn't love each other? How would you feel if there was a strange turn of events that had you on the honeymoon with the groom? All of these feelings are answered in Natalie Dunbar's Everything But Love. Nakita Daniels is a maid of honor left with mixed emotions after her best friend's wedding, to the man she is secretly in love with, didn't go off as planned. Michael Matheson, the groom, ignorant to Nakita's feelings, leans heavily on his confidante (Nikita) insisting she accompany him on the two-week honeymoon cruise to help him get over his fiasco wedding. Ms. Dunbar spends the rest of this novel showing us the cat and mouse games that are played when one is playing to win and the other doesn't recognize they are even in the game. In two weeks she tries to bring together two people who seemingly couldn't get together over the many years they've known each other. This book is as predictable as any romance novel would be but Ms. Dunbar does incorporate a few twists and turns that were unexpected. Those twists and turns are what kept me reading and it keeps you asking will Nakita and Michael will have everything . . . and love to boot? Kotanya
APOOO BookClub
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Summary: Great read
Review: I loved reading the book. Nikita was in love with Michael for a long time and didn't let him know it. He was engaged to her best friend Chenelle who broke up with a boyfriend. However, the wedding between Chenelle and Michael didn't go through. Chenelle realized that her true love was her ex-boyfriend and went back to him. Feeling hurt and rejected, he takes Nikita with him on the honeymoon trip. From there, sparks fly as the two spend two weeks on a cruise ship. Will Michael learn to let love into his life? And will Nikita when the heart of the man she always loved? Read this book and find out!
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Summary: Great read
Review: I loved reading the book. Nikita was in love with Michael for a long time and didn't let him know it. He was engaged to her best friend Chenelle who broke up with a boyfriend. However, the wedding between Chenelle and Michael didn't go through. Chenelle realized that her true love was her ex-boyfriend and went back to him. Feeling hurt and rejected, he takes Nikita with him on the honeymoon trip. From there, sparks fly as the two spend two weeks on a cruise ship. Will Michael learn to let love into his life? And will Nikita when the heart of the man she always loved? Read this book and find out!
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Summary: Don't Give Up
Review: Nikita was in love with Michael for years and never found a way to let him know. Once he met her friend, it was too late--or so she thought. When the wedding didn't go off as planned, she got another chance. It took a three week cruise, but she brought him around and by the end of the book got everything and love!! Both characters were engineers. I like reading about professional people.
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Summary: Don't Give Up
Review: Nikita was in love with Michael for years and never found a way to let him know. Once he met her friend, it was too late--or so she thought. When the wedding didn't go off as planned, she got another chance. It took a three week cruise, but she brought him around and by the end of the book got everything and love!! Both characters were engineers. I like reading about professional people.
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