Smitten at First Sight

What the readers are saying: Come on - help me close this thing up! You know how Jeffrey gets about being late. Robin placed her hands on her hips.

You are one lucky girl — I always knew that Jeffrey was the one. I am so happy for you, honey. And yet, she could not help admitting that her mother did have a point. Maggie had been dating Jeffrey for almost two years, and she was pretty sure that she loved him, so marrying him seemed like the next logical step, but no matter how hard she tried to convince herself of this fact, she could not shake off a feeling of uneasiness ever since Jeffrey had proposed, a week ago.

She always felt that she had to put her best foot forward for Jeffrey, so she had packed an outfit for every possible occasion. A law degree would be an icing on the cake. Are you listening to me? As annoying as that can be, as much as I want to be like do what you want!! She is engaged to Jeffrey and man, what a lame-o.

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His proposal is all about his job, not really about how much he loves her and wants to be with her. Then they go on an engagement trip which is really a business trip and he seems he doesn't care about her at all, and she just goes along with it. She does have some hesitancy, does start to get angry at times but then thinks no I will not do this now. For the most part she is just like I think I love him so What does Maggie do? Gets super pissed off at them for saying that.

You are so angry because someone said they are happy you are marrying the love of your life? I mean yes she has doubts, but why get so angry and why is she marrying him? They both know she is Jeffrey's fiance. Of course then we really get to see what a horrible person Jeffrey is when they all go skiing and Jeffrey almost gets himself killed and gets embarrassed by Taylor for screwing up majorly.

Well Jeffrey will have none of that, he can do what he wants, so he promptly leaves Maggie to go try and figure something else out for his movie oh yeah, he is making a documentary about Taylor skiing an un-skiable section of the mountain. Once he leave you get the shocking discovery that he cheats on Maggie so Maggie breaks up with him. Then she starts hanging out with Taylor and one things leads to another.

They were sweet together, and yes it was fast but I didn't really care. She was so much better with Taylor than with Jeffrey, and Taylor was so supportive of her dreams. So about half way through the book everything is great. Taylor and Maggie have gotten together, Jeffrey seems like he is cool with is, or will be fine and just wants to be professional. Then all quickly starts to go downhill.

Everything started to get too simple, too easy to fix, and just was bad. The first thing that happened?

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Jeffrey is all sneaky, takes Maggie to the airport when she is going home to break the news of her engagement to Taylor to her family and spend some time with them. Jeffrey kept Taylor tied up in a meeting, stole Taylor's phone, then canceled Maggie's cab so he drover her. Taylor wanted to try and say goodbye so drove as fast as possible to the airport only to see Jeffrey. Jeffrey tells him sorry dude, Maggie and I are back together. You were just a vacation fling. What does Taylor do? He is kind of upset, but he doesn't really do anything. He instantly believes Jeffrey for some reason I am not sure why.

He doesn't try and call Maggie or talk to her at all in the coming days. He tells his friends and everyone that Jeffrey said they were back together and they all believe it. I don't get it. Did no one see them together? Did no one see how in love they were? I mean it was shown that they were just so happy and in love, then the hurt ex says something and they just believe him?

It just wasn't in character for them.

Then why is Maggie not more concerned when she doesn't talk to Taylor for many days? It just doesn't make sense. Then after Taylor's accident, when Taylor is in a coma, Jeffrey calls Maggie and says Taylor died, but whatever you do not come here! His little speech was so odd it is like wait you are buying this?

I mean the instant no! But once you have time to think about it? Why would everyone hate you? They blame you for Taylor skiing and getting caught in an avalanche? I am just glad she did go anyway, and once she did everything was resolved in two seconds. She sees his friend Shawn who is at first upset, then Shawn sees Maggie is upset and all is good. She goes to the hospital and leads him out of the darkness and he has a miraculous recover! He just wakes up good as new! Oh but the worst part? Hannah has been in love with Taylor forever, Shawn in love with Hannah.

So Hannah is sitting with Taylor and he calls for Maggie, so then she is hurt at first, but then instantly realizes that she is not in love with him. She just blew her adolescent crush way out of proportion. So then she sees Shawn and tells him how she is leaving town and he is all No! You go from being in love with Taylor one moment to being in love with Shawn the next? With no hesitation or thinking at all? At least stop and think about how great Shawn is and how he has been there for you or something, then slowly realize hey maybe I do love him.

No oh I just thought I loved Taylor, now I love you! Way to just wrap everything up way too simply and quickly. And Taylor's dad also has a change of heart and they are dad and son again and close! I'm not saying a near death experience wouldn't bring them closer, but the way it was handled was way too easy. Overall the first part of the book I was enjoying, but the last half was just not good. I had never heard of this book before I was asked to review it and I have to admit, I was really excited to start.

This story follows Maggie, a 22 year old girl who has just got engaged to her boyfriend of 2 years. When they go on their engagement trip to British Columbia to a ski lodge, it is there that she meets Taylor; a handsome skier. On the Rim of Love was a loving and likable story. You can get lost in the story and know there will be a happy ending and the love interest is always to die for. This is what On the Rim of Love was and I enjoyed it! It was really nice seeing her grow into that person. Now Taylor, I loved him. As soon as he came on the scene you just wanted to get to know him.

I really enjoyed all the qualities he brought to the book too.

Smitten at First Sight

Now the other characters like Jeffery and Bethany….. They were all shallow, selfish and were money hungry and from page one I hated them. None of them redeemed themselves either so I still dislike them now. So, overall Maggie and Taylor made this book for me. The story itself was likable; I have to admit I got kind of bored with the ski references so when Maggie bought in her Photography dreams, it was a welcome addition to the book.

I would have preferred that part cut out of the story but is what is it but still enjoyable nonetheless. I enjoyed it and I reckon you will too. Thank you to the author for providing me with a copy for review. Feb 10, Britni rated it liked it. Maggie has it all. She's beautiful, been accepted to Yale Law School, engaged to a superstar movie producer, and a talented photographer. But something is missing, herself.

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Ever since Maggie met fiance Jeffrey, she's been hiding from her true feelings and dreams because who wouldn't be in love with such a handsome and successful man. One week after their engagement Jeffrey surprises Maggie with a two week skiing trip, just the two of them. Then it becomes the four of them as Jeffrey invites thei Maggie has it all.

Then it becomes the four of them as Jeffrey invites their best friends along. As soon as they arrive at the Ritz resort Maggie learns the real reason for the trip is for Jeffrey to do some pre-production work on a new skiing documentary he is shooting of a hot shot ski bum who lives in the area. Instead of the romantic vacation she envisioned, Maggie ends up with a lot of time alone to think, ski, photograph the surrounding area, and fall head over heels for that hot shot ski bum.

I won't give anything else away but you can probably figure out what happens next because well, On the Rim of Love was simply put, predictable. I really enjoyed the setting and the descriptions of the gorgeous mountainside but I found the story to be lackluster and the characters to be one-dimensional and lacking in depth.

They were each written in a way that it was obvious whose side you should be on and which characters you should like and which characters were in the wrong. Take Jeffrey for example, an vengeful and arrogant producer who thinks his wife should stay at home while he makes the money, there wasn't one thing I liked about him. Same thing with most of the characters, they were either all good or all bad. When have you ever met anyone who didn't have one redeeming quality? It just felt flat and unrealistic to me. If you're just looking for something to keep you entertained by the pool or at the beach for a few hours, this will do the job.

Smitten At First Sight

Just don't expect to keep thinking about it or remembering the characters after you finish the last page. Jan 16, Cocktails and Books rated it liked it Shelves: I wasn't sure I was going to like this one when I first starting reading it because I disliked Jeffrey immediately. And as the characters in the story, I had to question any Maggie's sensibilities when she let herself get forced into an engagement she wasn't really sure she wanted and then flown off for Vancouver for two weeks under the guise of an engagement trip only to learn mid flight it was actually for Jeffrey's work.

My feelings towards Maggie change once you see her and Taylor I wasn't sure I was going to like this one when I first starting reading it because I disliked Jeffrey immediately. My feelings towards Maggie change once you see her and Taylor together. Taylor saw there was much more to Maggie than what was at the surface. He encouraged her to pursue her dreams, where others would brush it off as a silly hobby.

He encouraged her to be her own person and be honest with those close to her. Once Maggie stopped doing things to please everyone else, she became someone that I liked. She could be stubborn and set in her ways, but it wasn't because she was fighting everyone telling her what to do, but instead to try and get her point across or prove that she could do something. Taylor seemed bigger than life. He was this daredevil skiier who wanted to have someone film him skiing an impossible pass in the mountains.

But he was also a man who, would do anything for his friends, his family and his community. Even this filming wasn't about him, but to prove to naysayers that what his grandfather had done many years before could be done again. I enjoyed the book until we got to the 30 pages or so.

Then it got kind of hooky with the whole tunnel, the light and the fog.

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