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    Never the Bride: A Novel
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    Never the Bride: A Novel
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    Never the Bride: A Novel

    Written by Rene Gutteridge and Cheryl McKay

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

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    About this audiobook

    Since she was just a little girl, Jessie Stone has dreamed up hundreds of marriage proposals and fantasized about wedding dresses and falling in love. She's been a bridesmaid nearly a dozen times, waved numerous couples off to sunny honey-moons, and shopped in more department stores for half-price fondue pots than she cares to remember.

    But shopping for one key component in her own happily ever after hasn't been as productive-a future husband. The man she thought she would marry cheated on her. The crush she has on her best friend Blake is at very best…well, crushing. And speed dating has only churned out memorable horror stories.

    So when God shows up one day, in the flesh, and becomes a walking, talking part of her life, Jessie is skeptical. What will it take to convince her that the Almighty has a better plan than one she's already cooked up in her journals?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 16, 2009
    ISBN9780739384800
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    Never the Bride: A Novel
    Author

    Rene Gutteridge

    RENE GUTTERIDGE has been writing professionally for twenty years, with published and produced work in fiction, comedy sketches, novelizations, non-fiction and screenwriting, and is co-director of WriterCon in Oklahoma City. Her novel My Life as a Doormat was adapted into the Hallmark movie Love's Complicated. She is head writer at Skit Guys Studios. She lives with her family in Oklahoma City.Read more about Rene's work with The Skit Guys and her other projects at renegutteridge.com

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    • 4/5
      A clever book about being single when you really want to be married and have dreamed of it--and about trusting God and waiting on his timing.I can relate to the main character Jessie Stone who wants to be married. I don't have all the creative proposals etc. that she wrote out but I can relate to watching friends and others find the love of their life, get married, etc. when you don't have that. (Gosh, some people even seem to find a second love of their life!)The idea of God coming down and appearing to her brought to mind the song "What if God was One of Us" that was popular a few years ago. Though I don't think the whole song applies to this novel, the idea of God coming down to converse face-to-face with a human is an interesting one--and it's thought-provoking to consider what He might say to us, or how we'd react to Him.I figured out that the human face God was using also belonged to someone else (a real human) before the authors confirmed it. I also agree that Jessie needed to learn some compromise before she was ready to enter into marriage. As we get older and develop our own lives, it's easy to fall into our own routines--and to not want to disrupt them for just anybody--I've said, I'll know he's the one when I'm willing to give up the perks of the single life (yes, there are a few) for him. But underneath the romance story, is a story of trusting God. Trusting that he has the best in mind for you and trusting his timing--not rushing into something else just to have something.
    • 2/5
      Goodreads writes:

      Since she was just a little girl, Jessie Stone dreamed up hundreds of marriage proposals, doodled the romantic ideas in her journal with her treasured purple pen, and fantasized about wedding dresses and falling in love. She’s been a bridesmaid nearly a dozen times, waved numerous couples off to sunny honeymoons, and shopped in more department stores for half-price fondue pots than she cares to remember.

      But shopping for one key component of these countless proposals hasn't been quite as productive–a future husband. The man she thought she would marry cheated on her. The crush she has on her best friend Blake is at very best…well, crushing. And speed dating has only churned out memorable horror stories.

      So when God shows up one day, in the flesh, and becomes a walking, talking part of her life, Jessie is skeptical. What will it take to convince her that the Almighty has a better plan than one she’s already cooked up in her journals? Can she turn over her pen and trust someone else to craft a love story beyond her wildest dreams?

      I wanted to like this book more than I did. Now don't get me wrong it was a book I enjoyed enough to read but there were parts of it that just didn't sit well with me. And I am a big fan of closure, I didn't get it with all the characters that became a part of 'my reading family' for a few days. I just feel a little let down when I finished the book.
    • 2/5
      How did I end up with THIS book?? I read the back... the chick's been a bridesmaid a bunch of times and can't find Mr. Right... sounded up my alley.

      Then God showed up. In the form of a hot guy.

      Holy Hell.
    • 3/5
      Jessie Stone has been obsessed with marriage since the time she was seven. Her obsessive-compulsive tendencies paired with a high level of emotional neediness have combined to leave her single at the age of 35. She’s desperate and it shows. When God shows up in her life (quite literally) and asks her to surrender to Him she reluctantly follows while impatiently waiting for Him to write her love story.Never the Bride was originally a screenplay by Cheryl McKay that has been novelized by Rene Gutteridge. A quick, funny read this work clearly falls within the chick-lit genre. There is dating, kissing, love-gone-wrong, angst etc. and in the midst of it all, a God who is trying to steer a stubborn woman into His will.Even though Never the Bride was entertaining (I laughed out loud a few times) and delivered a message about God’s love for the church, I felt that Jessie didn’t grow a lot through her wrestling with God. Even up to the climax of the story she was throwing tantrums because she couldn’t have her own way. The only reason she seemed happy in the end was because God ‘delivered’, not because she truly learned to be content in His will for her life.As a result I have mixed feelings about this book. Though fun to read it doesn’t really place a strong value on waiting on God (because the main character never achieves this), and seems to endorse a casual dating culture. God also behaves in some strange and even corny ways (I winced a few times). Never the Bride makes a good beach/bathtub read, but not much more.Reviewed at quiverfullfamily.com
    • 5/5
      This was an AMAZING book, especially for me where I am in my life right now. You have to have a belief in God, or be extremely open to the ideas presented in the book. This is one of the best books I've ever read, if not the best. Again, it really hits home for me right now.
    • 5/5
      Fabulously fun read and eye opening for some introspective. When I first picked up this book I was thinking of the film "27 Dresses" then as I started to read I was thinking of "My Best Friend's Wedding". As far as entertainment this book is up there with those films if not even more enjoyable. What would you do if God started appearing to just you to tell you to let Him write 'your' love story? That is what Jessie has to decide and it is quite the emotional adventure watching what she will end up doing and how her life may turn out. I read this book in a day, with my five week old daughter's interruptions. I just had to continuously pick the book back up and keep reading to find out what would happen next. It is just that good! And oh what a romance! And comedy *grin*. There is such a fight to make your own path in life and fight the direction that God gives us. This is a novel about learning to let Him guide us and how His plans will make us happy if we will just let Him participate in the planning. Finishing this novel, I cannot help but grin and giggle to myself. This is my first experience with Rene Gutteridge and Cheryl McKay, yet definitely not my last!