Other People's Weddings (Petit Morts, #4) in Q&A with Josh Lanyon

May 30, 2010 Tara rated it really liked it

Shelves: m-m, paranormal-romance, romance-contemporary, things-that-go-grr-arg-in-the-night, mystery-suspense, read-in-2010

Book 4 in the Petite Mort Series, this one written by Josh Lanyon.

Griffin Skerry is a wedding planner in North Dakota. Awkwardly he's planning the wedding for his on again, off again lover, Joe and a woman. But not just any woman, the ultimate rich Bridezilla and her even worse mother. One day while he is checking in on the favors he ordered for our old friend Chance at Sweets for the Sweet he bumps into the sheriff. The sheriff, Hamar Sorensen, was a popular varsity sports stud in high school, ...more

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Feb 28, 2010 Elisa Rolle added it

Other People’s Weddings is a romance with a dark shade, but not too much dark to tinge the pink feeling of the story. Griff is a wedding planner, probably the epitome of “gay” job, and of course he is gay; more he is probably one of the few openly gay men in the little town where he lives, and he is planning the wedding of his secret lover, Joe. Joe is not exactly Griff’s dream lover, but he is at least a lover, something Griff is missing. I think Griff doesn’t estimate himself good enough to be Other People’s Weddings is a romance with a dark shade, but not too much dark to tinge the pink feeling of the story. Griff is a wedding planner, probably the epitome of “gay” job, and of course he is gay; more he is probably one of the few openly gay men in the little town where he lives, and he is planning the wedding of his secret lover, Joe. Joe is not exactly Griff’s dream lover, but he is at least a lover, something Griff is missing. I think Griff doesn’t estimate himself good enough to be allowed to have a “public” lover; other than moral issues that should have forced him to not accept the job, there is also the very real downfall economic trend, Griff really needs the job, and Joe’s soon to be wife’s family is among the wealthiest of the town. So Griff is grinding his teeth and doing the bitter work with a sweet smile on his face.

Then, just when he is almost done with it, Griff meets again Hammer/Hamar, former high school mate and nemesis; at the beginning the reader doesn’t understand Griff’s cold attitude towards Hamar, a prank joke in high school seems too little thing for a long lasting resentment; something like that you could expect from a wounded lover: for example, Griff is not saving the same cold behaviour with Joe, and Joe is marrying a woman! Little by little the truth is unveiled and maybe for once, Griff will have to plan his own happily ever after.

The story is nice and sweet, very romantic but not at all sexy; despite this, I think it’s a very good romance, and it’s strange, since the only sex scene is not even between the two romance heroes, who neither share a kiss. There is a whole entire story after what happens in this novella, the author can decide to write it or to let to the reader the task to build it in its mind, in any case he gave enough details, in the characters, in the setting and in the story to not leaving the reader, at the end of the story, with the feeling that something was untold.

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Jan 01, 2015 liz rated it it was ok

This is disappointing. I'm enjoying this series, and I'm enjoying the Lanyon contributions most...until now. I really liked the characters and wanted the story. This wasn't a story. It was a prequel or an extended prologue, at best. It's the meet-cute without the cute because history. Dirty, messy history. And we don't get to see all of it. In fact, the extent of the history is murky at the beginning, it seems awful, and then it's what unites them in the end? No. There's not a "the end" for this ...more

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Jun 21, 2010 Merith rated it really liked it

In this new series combining two of my favorite authors (Josh Lanyon and Jordan Castillo Price), I can see so many wonderfully delicious bites of decadence coming from both of them.

Josh's second contribution, "Other People's Weddings," gives us Griff, practically stuck planning the wedding of his on-again/off-again lover, Joe. The bride-zilla doesn't help. Nor the mother of the bride. Toss in the discontent and rebellious sister and maid of honor, and you have a mix that is none too sweet.

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