Sign in with Facebook
Fools Rush In (Weddings by Bella #1)
Bella Rossi may be nearing thirty, but her life is just starting to get interesting. When her Italian-turned-Texan parents hand over the family wedding planning business, Bella is determined not to let them down. She quickly books a "Boot Scoot'n" wedding that would make any Texan proud. There's only one catch - she's a country music numbskull because her family only liste...more
Kindle Edition, 336 pages
Published
September 1st 2009
by Revell
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
3,000)
Nov 12, 2009
Margaret
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
romantic comedy lovers
Recommended to Margaret by:
Janice Thompson
Contemporary Romantic Comedy is the genre that author Janice Thompson's new series Weddings by Bella falls within and boy does she know how to write it well. "Fools Rush In", book #1 is a heart beating, goosebump raising, giggles under cover read. I was able to read this in less a day, which considering my teething, growth spurt experiencing, 3 month old daughter is quite the feat. *wink*
Bella Rossi is a New Jersey Italian relocated with her whole family to the shores of Galveston, Texas and sh...more
Bella Rossi is a New Jersey Italian relocated with her whole family to the shores of Galveston, Texas and sh...more
Apr 12, 2011
papalbina
rated it
1 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
kindle,
in-english
I don't have time to waste in this crap. It's very poorly written with situations bordering the stupidity and the absurd (come on, choking in a restaurant to have a reason these two kiss, are u kidding me?). Besides I don't have any problem with christianity or anybody else's faith, but I do have a problem if they try to rub it in. Probably you can find the word "God" in this book more often than any character's name ¬¬
I would recommend the author to read something by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma to...more
I would recommend the author to read something by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma to...more
14 likes · like · see review
This book is written at the first person. Sometimes it can be a success, more often than not, it just reflects poor writing skills, as it seems easier to write thus. The vocabulary is poor, full of slang, the syntax bad; it's as if it supposed to look like the inner thinking of the heroine, but that did not work at all for me.
Second thing : the heroine is almost 30. But her thinking, her expression and everything about her could be exactly the same, if she were 12 and this book were in the Young...more
Second thing : the heroine is almost 30. But her thinking, her expression and everything about her could be exactly the same, if she were 12 and this book were in the Young...more
1 like · like · see review
A heart-warming novel with a very positive message. Bella's clan, the Rossi family are a kookie bunch, but in a good way. They each have a very strong relationship with the Lord, and a deep love for their family. The welcome strangers into their lives and make them feel like family. The Rossi family is very kind and generous.
Bella has a bit of a strange meeting with D.J. Neeley, when she searches for a deejay to perform at the wedding she is planning for her newest clients. The relationship tha...more
Bella has a bit of a strange meeting with D.J. Neeley, when she searches for a deejay to perform at the wedding she is planning for her newest clients. The relationship tha...more
Bella Rossi may be nearing thirty, but her life is just starting to get interesting. When her Italian-turned-Texan parents hand over the family wedding planning business, Bella is determined not to let them down. She quickly books a "Boot Scoot'n" wedding that would make any Texan proud. There's only one catch--she's a country music numbskull because her family only listens to Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Where will she find a DJ on such short notice who knows his Alan Jackson from his Keith U...more
In all fairness my rating of the book probably leans closer to a 3 star. It was a light, easy read that was fairly enjoyable in that way. It was interesting enough that I will probably, at some point, pick up books 2 and 3 of the series just to finish out the story line Thompson created.
Bella Rossi is a transplanted Italian living in larger-than-life Texas. She's lived there almost her whole life but hasn't quite taken to the culture of Texas. Her entrepreneurial family runs a couple of success...more
Bella Rossi is a transplanted Italian living in larger-than-life Texas. She's lived there almost her whole life but hasn't quite taken to the culture of Texas. Her entrepreneurial family runs a couple of success...more
Bella Rossi and her loud, boisterous Italian family run a couple of connected businesses – Bella’s Weddings (a/k/a Club Wed) is a reception hall and wedding planning service owned by Bella’s parents. Her uncle Lou owns a nearby restaurant – Parma John’s – and catering business. Now, at age 29 and still single, Bella is in a near panic at the thought of planning her first “theme” wedding. Her parents want to retire and have turned over the business to her. Problem is she has never planned a theme...more
2 likes · like · see review
I downloaded this as a freebie, but rest assured that I will soon want it on my bookshelf. If a book lands on my bookshelf, then it is there to stay.
Some might think the family is ridiculous or that Bella is immature, but hey, a lot of us southern families are like that. We live life to the fullest; we are loud; we love immensely; and we love our Lord. We aren't called the Bible Belt for nothing!
Thompson's book takes a fresh and absolutely hilarious approach to a transplanted Italian family in a...more
Some might think the family is ridiculous or that Bella is immature, but hey, a lot of us southern families are like that. We live life to the fullest; we are loud; we love immensely; and we love our Lord. We aren't called the Bible Belt for nothing!
Thompson's book takes a fresh and absolutely hilarious approach to a transplanted Italian family in a...more
2 likes · like · see review
I loved Bella!
You will love Bella too and her Uncle Laz, if you read this book-because the love both for food and music in their family just gets your reading on. It is easy to read and you get to understand some aspects of life and love and how family plays a huge role in life.
Bella, now a wedding planner meets Drew-and she's glad thinking that she's got a deejay for Sharlene and her husband who want Country music played at their wedding, but as it turns out Drew is not a deejay, but a D.J, hi...more
You will love Bella too and her Uncle Laz, if you read this book-because the love both for food and music in their family just gets your reading on. It is easy to read and you get to understand some aspects of life and love and how family plays a huge role in life.
Bella, now a wedding planner meets Drew-and she's glad thinking that she's got a deejay for Sharlene and her husband who want Country music played at their wedding, but as it turns out Drew is not a deejay, but a D.J, hi...more
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it,
click here.
3 likes · like · see review
Yes, this is a Christian novel. Yes, the mingling of cultures (Texan and Italian) is an interesting substory throughout the novel. I knew what I was in for when I started reading. Even though I knew what I signed on for, it didn't stop me from (literally) rolling my eyes during multiple points of this book.
The story of Bella, an Italian-American wedding planner transplanted in Texas, falling in love with hertrue-blue Texas deejay, D.J., and trying to make it work in spite of the cultural differ...more
The story of Bella, an Italian-American wedding planner transplanted in Texas, falling in love with hertrue-blue Texas deejay, D.J., and trying to make it work in spite of the cultural differ...more
8 likes · like · see review
Jan 23, 2011
Kristi (Books and Needlepoint)
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
arcs
Bella Rossi has just taken over the management of her family's wedding planning business. After changing the name to Club Web, she begins advertising themed weddings. Her first such affair is to be a country western theme with yellow roses, cowboy boots and country music.
Problem is, being Italian, Bella doesn't know a lot about country music or cowboy boots! Her brother, who usually runs the soundboard, is in Houston because of his latest love and is not available to deejay the event. Will Bell...more
Problem is, being Italian, Bella doesn't know a lot about country music or cowboy boots! Her brother, who usually runs the soundboard, is in Houston because of his latest love and is not available to deejay the event. Will Bell...more
This is a Christian book. You can't escape it - the references are all over the place, all the time. I don't mind that, but I do mind the realization that Christian fiction is apparently limited to Protestant faiths. The family is Italian - very Italian - and yet they all converted to Methodism years ago during a revival. Sorry, but that's just not realistic. Entire families of Catholic Italians do not just convert like that. I've known too many people of Italian heritage to buy that. When the h...more
8 likes · like · see review
A new series for Janice Thompson titled: "Weddings BY Bella" and beginning with "Fools Rush In", this is Book One!
What an enjoyable, laugh-out-loud, slow and let 'er all hang out Southern Family meets loud and boisterous Italian Family!!
Bella Rossi, a young 20 something is handed her Italian turned Texas parents wedding business to run on her own so they can retire and take trips and vacations knowing the business they've built over the years will survive with Bella at the helm.
Living in Texas,...more
What an enjoyable, laugh-out-loud, slow and let 'er all hang out Southern Family meets loud and boisterous Italian Family!!
Bella Rossi, a young 20 something is handed her Italian turned Texas parents wedding business to run on her own so they can retire and take trips and vacations knowing the business they've built over the years will survive with Bella at the helm.
Living in Texas,...more
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it,
click here.
Jan 23, 2010
Casey
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
contentment-reading-challenge-2011
Mama Mia, what a novel! I have never laughed so hard over a novel in my entire reading life!
Bella Rossi doesn’t know what she has gotten herself into when she took over the family wedding planning service. Certainly not 800 boots, a deejay that isn’t a deejay- or is he?- her BBQ cook with singed eyebrows and one pesky neighbor who is always finding himself at the wrong end of her aunt’s broom.
I heard great things about this novel, so I picked it up, though still a little skeptical if the humor c...more
Bella Rossi doesn’t know what she has gotten herself into when she took over the family wedding planning service. Certainly not 800 boots, a deejay that isn’t a deejay- or is he?- her BBQ cook with singed eyebrows and one pesky neighbor who is always finding himself at the wrong end of her aunt’s broom.
I heard great things about this novel, so I picked it up, though still a little skeptical if the humor c...more
Oct 30, 2009
Cathleen
rated it
1 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
inspirational,
romance
1 1/2 stars. Reminiscent of the film Return to Me, this book wants to capitalize on the charm of mixing ethnic eccentricities, though in this case it is Italian/Texan rather than Italian/Irish. It's somewhat entertaining and the writing is executed with a light touch. However, that's also a problem: it's too light a touch. This story skims on a surface, even inexplicably building up to scenes then skipping the pay-off (e.g., a dramatic confrontation in a public restaurant between a lovey new cou...more
When Bella Rossi was a child, her very Italian, New Jersey-based family relocated to Texas – Galveston to be exact – where her uncle opened an authentic pizzeria and her parents opened a wedding planning facility, named after her. Now she finds herself running the family business and attempting to expand the customer base by offering exclusive, elaborately themed weddings. Only with her first big booking for a “boot-scootin’ wedding,” Bella may have gotten in way over her head. Coming from a fam...more
Apr 03, 2013
Salyna
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
comical,
moderate-romance
This was a very funny read! Tons of crazy things happened that had me laughing from the beginning. From Bella's crazy family to how D.J. deals with it all, their is not stop laughter and family bonding.
I loved how in this book Bella's whole family loves eachother to death, not to mention D.J.'s family as well. I also like that even though you know everyone loves each other, it showed how a family can and will butt heads, but everything will be alright and back to normal in the end; That after a...more
I loved how in this book Bella's whole family loves eachother to death, not to mention D.J.'s family as well. I also like that even though you know everyone loves each other, it showed how a family can and will butt heads, but everything will be alright and back to normal in the end; That after a...more
This was one of the books I picked up for free on my nook, and I'm starting see a trend in the books that are free. Namely, I don't like them.
This book has a lot of problems. For one thing, the main plot, the wedding that Bella is planning, ends a good 30 pages before the end of the book. Now, I could understand having some sort of wrap-up chapter, but the wrap-up in this book drags on for far too long. It doesn't help that there is very little conflict to begin with. In the case of a romance, r...more
This book has a lot of problems. For one thing, the main plot, the wedding that Bella is planning, ends a good 30 pages before the end of the book. Now, I could understand having some sort of wrap-up chapter, but the wrap-up in this book drags on for far too long. It doesn't help that there is very little conflict to begin with. In the case of a romance, r...more
I actually enjoyed the story and writing in this book, but I only gave it two stars because I kept getting it annoyed. I almost put it down after the first couple of chapters. The thing that annoyed me the most was the overly religious aspect of it. Don't get me wrong, I'm a religious person. And I liked the idea of Christian fiction because I knew the story would be clean. However, I felt like Thompson went just a little overboard. I felt like I was having it rammed down my throat. There were t...more
Jul 18, 2012
Carrie Daws
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
christian-fiction
Remember the movie My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding? Change it to Italians and drop them in Texas, and you have the hilarious set up for Fools Rush In by Janice Thompson.
The theme can be summed up by the Italian phrase frequently used in the story, Finche c'e vita c'e speranza: As long as there is life, there is hope. Told in the first person, we get the unique perspective of Bella, a young woman trying to find her own place in the world without leaving the safety net of family. Repeatedly, the autho...more
The theme can be summed up by the Italian phrase frequently used in the story, Finche c'e vita c'e speranza: As long as there is life, there is hope. Told in the first person, we get the unique perspective of Bella, a young woman trying to find her own place in the world without leaving the safety net of family. Repeatedly, the autho...more
My first foray into Kindle books. I find I like the lightweight nature of holding a Kindle and having so many books with me while on vacation, but I was reading the free and low-cost books that certainly need a better editorial review for structure, transitions, pacing, and even spelling in some cases. Fools Rush In was a cute chick light romance that I enjoyed with lots of fun, quirky characters. Bella's Italian family owns Club Wed on Galveston Island. She is taking over and expanding into the...more
I really want to like this book. It is a clean, Christian-based book but there were so many underdeveloped and inconsistent parts to the story that it drove me crazy. I wasn't even sure at first who the main love-interest was because the description of him made him sound too much like a backwoods yokel so it was hard to picture her falling in love with him. The ex-boyfriend sometimes sounded decent and in the next scene sounded like a crazed maniac. The story was being developed to have the sist...more
The story was hilarious and well presented. Quite a few scenes in the book made me laugh out loud and I even read a few chapters again (I rarely do this!). The book focussed quite a bit on the characters in the Rossi family and their daily life. This would have been a tad bit boring if it had not been for the uniqueness of each of them. I also liked that quite a few Italian slangs / phrases were thrown across the book. It got us so much more closer to the big family of the Rossi’s – almost like...more
This book was funny from the first page. I have never read a book with so much religion in it before, but that did not stop me from picking up this book. Just from reading the description on the back of the book, I knew that I had to read this. I love anything weddings, and a little bit of romance never hurts.
The book starts off with Bella's parents retiring from their wedding business. They have decided to give the business over to Bella, her first wedding is a boot scoot'n country wedding with...more
The book starts off with Bella's parents retiring from their wedding business. They have decided to give the business over to Bella, her first wedding is a boot scoot'n country wedding with...more
Bella’s family is a loud, Italian family from Jersey. They have relocated to Galveston,
TX. Bella is taking over one of the family businesses, the wedding planning and venue.
She wants to prove herself and starts off with a Western theme wedding, when she has no
idea about anything country. Enter handsome, local, carpenter/cowboy DJ. She falls for
him, he falls for her, hilarity ensues when his country family is combined with her loud
Italians. All is solved in the end.
I liked the premise and concept...more
TX. Bella is taking over one of the family businesses, the wedding planning and venue.
She wants to prove herself and starts off with a Western theme wedding, when she has no
idea about anything country. Enter handsome, local, carpenter/cowboy DJ. She falls for
him, he falls for her, hilarity ensues when his country family is combined with her loud
Italians. All is solved in the end.
I liked the premise and concept...more
This was a cute, easy read. It was enjoyable, fun, and humorous, but not particularly complicated. I didn't mind the quirkiness of the family or the crazy, seemingly unreal crises that arose; sometimes life really is like that. The Christian references dominated the story, but it was expected from the genre and author. I didn't think it was particularly overdone or detracted from the story. There were a few Christian references that I didn't personally understand or agree with, but that my just...more
Funny, Romantic, Evangelical Christian Novel
Bella has taken over the family wedding planning business and has expanded from just traditional weddings to theme weddings. She is taking on her first Texas Hoedown Wedding. Even though her family has lived in Texas for several years they have not fully embraced the Texas live style and still are clinging to the Italian/New Jersey heritage with which they are familiar. Enter DJ, his brother Bubba and their family; Italy means Texas makes for a very en...more
Bella has taken over the family wedding planning business and has expanded from just traditional weddings to theme weddings. She is taking on her first Texas Hoedown Wedding. Even though her family has lived in Texas for several years they have not fully embraced the Texas live style and still are clinging to the Italian/New Jersey heritage with which they are familiar. Enter DJ, his brother Bubba and their family; Italy means Texas makes for a very en...more
Do you ever feel like strange things happen to you, and only you? Amazingly odd occurrences...bad timing...unbelievably wacky coincidences? And did you ever notice that these things don't seem to happen to anyone else, that they only happen to YOU? I know I feel that way, and Bella Rossi does too. These times are what she calls "Badda-bing, badda-boom" moments. And with a family like hers, these moments happen far too often.
It's one of these unbelievably strange, humorous moments that brings abo...more
It's one of these unbelievably strange, humorous moments that brings abo...more
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New series | 12 | 40 | Apr 25, 2013 12:24pm | |
| Why (and how) I wrote this book | 30 | 111 | Mar 18, 2013 09:06am | |
| The Free Book Cha...: Fools Rush In, by Janice Thompson | 7 | 22 | Dec 02, 2012 07:10pm |
My name is Janice Thompson. (You will find me published under Janice Hanna as well.)
I’m a Christian freelance author of novels, non-fiction books, magazine articles and musical comedies for the stage. I live in the Houston area, where the heat and humidity tend to reign, regardless of the season.
I’m the mother of four beautiful daughters, (Randi, Courtney Rae, Megan and Courtney Elizabeth. Yes, I...more
More about Janice Thompson...
I’m a Christian freelance author of novels, non-fiction books, magazine articles and musical comedies for the stage. I live in the Houston area, where the heat and humidity tend to reign, regardless of the season.
I’m the mother of four beautiful daughters, (Randi, Courtney Rae, Megan and Courtney Elizabeth. Yes, I...more
Share This Book
“He flashed the warmest smile I'd ever seen, and my heart felt comforted. Maybe D.J. saw my insecurities, my fears. Maybe he knew God still had a lot of work to do in my life before I'd be good girlfriend material.
Or maybe, just maybe, he saw beyond all that and simply wanted to flirt with the wedding coordinator instead of rehearse for the big night.
I did my best to relax...and let him.”
—
10 people liked it
Or maybe, just maybe, he saw beyond all that and simply wanted to flirt with the wedding coordinator instead of rehearse for the big night.
I did my best to relax...and let him.”
“I had to wonder if the Lord above had flashed a heavenly spotlight over my head and whispered, "Preach this sermon just for her. She's not going to get the message otherwise.”
—
9 people liked it
More quotes…
Dec 06, 2012 03:35pm
Dec 06, 2012 05:27pm