SPOILER WARNING!!!!

SPOILER WARNING!!!!

I recently finished reading With This Ring, I’m Confused by Kristin Billerbeck. It’s the third and final installment to the Ashley Stockingdale series. Ashley is a thirty-something Christian woman who is anxious to get married. She finally does gain a fiance, by the name of Kevin Novak, who also happens to be a pediatric surgeon. Although I enjoyed the book and I thought Billerbeck was funny in her depictions of Kevin’s mother and his crazy anorexic sister Emily, I felt that she should have had more scenes showing Ashley and Kevin together. Since Ashley and Kevin are engaged, you can assume they are in love, however, other than a few scenes where they hug or kiss, or have some meal in a restaurant, I don’t think I see them enough, intereacting with each other to believe that they are in love.

I did enjoy the antics of Emily as she did a lot of things to spoil Ashley’s wedding. The main thing she did was cancel Ashley’s wedding dress, and instead ordered a Scarlett-O’hara-styled dress that Ashley hates. Plus Ashley argues with her future mother in law and Emily about having a buffet dinner or a sit-down dinner.

On top of all the turmoil going on in Ashley’s life, her ex-boyfriend, Seth, comes to work for her company. Seeing her ex each day swings her emotions into overdrive as he tries to convince her to call off the wedding. As time moves on, Seth admits that he’s going to marry Arin, a petite mutual “friend” at their church who is pregnant, however, he is not the baby’s father.

After Kevin gains a backbone and learns to stand up to his mother and sister, Ashley does manage to have the wedding of her dreams in the end….wearing her beloved Vera Wang wedding gown!

Until next time,
Cecelia Dowdy
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