Marrying the Star
Fake Marriage Romance, #2

I'm picking up Good Grief, Bree again. This week is Marrying the Star.
I love this book. I think it was the only time I did second chance well. I love Callie's family. There was a good dose of me in there. Callie's mom loved her, but not the way Callie wanted to be loved.
I think there's a desire inside most people to want to please their parents, but I'll direct this entire conversation toward myself. I don't want to generalize or make someone feel like I'm speaking to them.
I'm not. I'm talking only about myself.
I've talked before about the desperation to be loved. Any love was better than no love, including bad love.
The problem with bad love is that it isn't love. It's just not. I don't know what it is, but to call it love, I think, cheapens real love. The selfless, long-suffering, patient love is hard love, but it's good love. Even if I'm only getting a teaspoon of that, it's better than a cup of the other stuff.
For Callie, it was getting her mom to see HER and the future Callie wanted. Her mom had to understand that their goals were different. Their plans were different. Callie's mom deeply loved her, and I did it that way because that's what I wanted.
I couldn't have it with my mom, but I could give it to her. I could have the resolution even if it was just in spirit.
For me, many of my books are therapeutic in a way. My parents are gone. There is no reconciliation. No way to patch or fix all the broken pieces. But my characters can have what I didn't have. I can give them parents who truly love them, even if it's misguided.
As for Tucker. He was the opposite. His parents had supported him, but he was still miserable because he'd allowed himself to be drawn away from what he knew to be true.
The people who love you will tell you no. They'll ask to have coffee and ask what's going on? What's up? What sort of nonsense is this? They ground a person. It's easy to lose sight of what's true and good and healthy when a person doesn't have the support system they need.
Tucker needed that. He needed Callie. He needed her family to remind him of who he was and who he wanted to be.
I loved their chemistry, too. I love how Callie's mom did a 180 on him. (The preemie mentioned was based on Abby, my oldest.) I won't give spoilers, so that's where I'll leave that.
Anyway, that was a long-winded one, and I'm sorry. Marry the Star will be free today through Monday. So, if you've been itching to own it, click the picture and it'll take you to Amazon. If you have Kindle Unlimited, it'll give you that as the first option. Right below, there should be the option to purchase it for $0.
All right. That's it for me. I hope you all have a great weekend and I'll see you next week!
I love this book. I think it was the only time I did second chance well. I love Callie's family. There was a good dose of me in there. Callie's mom loved her, but not the way Callie wanted to be loved.
I think there's a desire inside most people to want to please their parents, but I'll direct this entire conversation toward myself. I don't want to generalize or make someone feel like I'm speaking to them.
I'm not. I'm talking only about myself.
I've talked before about the desperation to be loved. Any love was better than no love, including bad love.
The problem with bad love is that it isn't love. It's just not. I don't know what it is, but to call it love, I think, cheapens real love. The selfless, long-suffering, patient love is hard love, but it's good love. Even if I'm only getting a teaspoon of that, it's better than a cup of the other stuff.
For Callie, it was getting her mom to see HER and the future Callie wanted. Her mom had to understand that their goals were different. Their plans were different. Callie's mom deeply loved her, and I did it that way because that's what I wanted.
I couldn't have it with my mom, but I could give it to her. I could have the resolution even if it was just in spirit.
For me, many of my books are therapeutic in a way. My parents are gone. There is no reconciliation. No way to patch or fix all the broken pieces. But my characters can have what I didn't have. I can give them parents who truly love them, even if it's misguided.
As for Tucker. He was the opposite. His parents had supported him, but he was still miserable because he'd allowed himself to be drawn away from what he knew to be true.
The people who love you will tell you no. They'll ask to have coffee and ask what's going on? What's up? What sort of nonsense is this? They ground a person. It's easy to lose sight of what's true and good and healthy when a person doesn't have the support system they need.
Tucker needed that. He needed Callie. He needed her family to remind him of who he was and who he wanted to be.
I loved their chemistry, too. I love how Callie's mom did a 180 on him. (The preemie mentioned was based on Abby, my oldest.) I won't give spoilers, so that's where I'll leave that.
Anyway, that was a long-winded one, and I'm sorry. Marry the Star will be free today through Monday. So, if you've been itching to own it, click the picture and it'll take you to Amazon. If you have Kindle Unlimited, it'll give you that as the first option. Right below, there should be the option to purchase it for $0.
All right. That's it for me. I hope you all have a great weekend and I'll see you next week!