With almost a 5 Star rating on Goodreads, I’m thinking this is a must for any book lover!
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byย Aimee Brown
Release Date:ย August 2nd, 2017
Publisher:ย Crooked Cat Books
Genre:ย Romantic Comedy/Chick Lit
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Book Trailer: ย https://youtu.be/r-AuooE8ZT0
Blurb:
Emi Harrison hasย avoided her ex-fiance, Jack Cabot, for nearly two years. Her twin brother Evanโs wedding is about to end that streak.
From bad bridesmaidโs dresses, a hyperactive sister-in-law, a mean girl with even meaner secrets, and too much to drink, nothing seems to go right for Emi, except when sheโs wearing her little gray dress.
When she speed-walks into Liam Jaxonโs bar, things getย more complicated. Heโs gorgeous, southern, and has no past with Emi. He mayย be exactly what she needs to prove for the last time that she doesnโt need or want Jack!
Her favorite little gray dress has made an appearance at nearly every major event in Emiโs adult life. Will it make another when she least expects it?
AmazonUS:ย eBookย โ $2.99 |ย printย โ $9.99
AmazonUK:ย eBookย โ ยฃ1.99|ย printย โย ยฃ6.99
Barnes & Noble:ย printย โ $9.99
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Excerpt:
A Bad Dress
โIt wonโt zip.โ I look over my shoulder trying to see just how much of a gap there is in the zipper.
The seamstress pulls open the curtain and peeks in. โOhhโฆโ She taps her lips with her forefinger. โMaybe a corset will help?โ
โA corset? Like, what they used to wear in the 1800s?โ I ask, worried that instead of just looking fat Iโll end up with crushed ribs as well.
โThey arenโt quite as excruciating as they were back then. Iโll just go grab one.โ
โA corset, Lily!โ I yell through the curtain at my best friend. โDid you hear that? Iโm so fat that I need to cinch it all in with a corset.โ I stick my face out of the edge of the curtain, only to see Lilyโs nod.
โI donโt know what youโre complaining about, Ems. I wear Spanx every day of my life.โ She rolls her eyes at me. Spanx isnโt an option for me; I need the big guns of underwear to make this dress even a tiny bit presentable.
I peel the dress off and drape it over the small chair in the fitting room. The dress could be described as โdaringโ, but a more fitting word would be โrepulsiveโ. It could cause the ugly swan dress Bjork wore to the Academy Awards to bow its head in shame. Which I think is what it was doing that night, anyway. Hannah must have lost her mind to create this disaster as a bridesmaidโs gown. Maybe the dress itself isnโt that terrible, but on meโฆ itโs appalling.
โHere we go!โ The seamstress holds up a white corset. โWeโll just get you tied into this and we should be good to go.โ
If only it was that easy. It takes ten minutes of pulling, pushing, and adjusting. I wish I could say that the superstrength, agonizingly uncomfortable corset does the trick. It nearly does, but to really drive home the fact that I still look terrible, we also opt for high-waisted Spanx-like underwear that hits me just below the breast. Then the corset itself, and I swear at one point it felt as if the seamstress has a foot on my back as she pulled the strings as tight as they could go to get it on. Then, as if two pairs of smoothing and self-shrinking underwear arenโt enough, we add some kind of full-length slip to smooth out the uhโฆ lumpy areas. Which give me a bit more flare at the bottom of the skirt, in an attempt to achieve that hourglass shape that this dress so desperately needs, as opposed to the pear shape I seem to have taken on recently.
Sadly, the biggest problem Iโm going to have at this wedding isnโt even the fact that Iโll be wearing a lot of bodycinching underwear underneath an ugly, far-too-snug dress created by my almost sister-in-law, Hannah.
My biggest concern is Hannahโs brother: Jack Cabot. My ex-fiancรฉ.
Jack and I dated for five years, and for the last one of those years we were engaged. In all honesty, it was the best five years of my life, right up until that last day. That day is forever burned into my brain and has ruined so many parts of me. That was the day he shattered my heart, and I still havenโt found all the pieces.
I probably shouldnโt have put off the first fitting. Maybe my reflection in the dress wouldnโt be so shocking if Iโd started the alteration process a month ago. Or maybe not. Iโm sure the whole experience, no matter when I started it, would be just as traumatizing as it feels right now.
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Aimee Brown is a writer and an avid reader.ย Little Gray Dressย is her first published novel. My second novel is in the works now. Sheโs currently studying for her Bachelorโs degree in English Writing. She spends much of her time writing, doing homework, raising three teenagers, binge watching shows on Netflix and obsessively cleaning and redecorating her house. Sheโs fluent in sarcasm and has been known to utter profanities like sheโs competing for a medal.
Aimee grew up in Oregon but is now a transplant living in cold Montana with her husband of twenty years, three teenage children, and far too many pets.
She would love to hear your thoughts onย Little Gray Dress! If youโd like to chat with her sheโs very active on social media. You can find her at any of the networks below. Stop by and say hello!
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Giveaway:
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