Bridal Boot Camp (Little Bridge Island #0.5) by Meg Cabot (Novella Review)

Yay for Lazy Sundays!

It's only a 50 page novella, but I managed to start and finish Meg Cabot's newest story, Bridal Boot Camp, which is the novella that has kicked off her new series, Little Bridge Island!  The first official novel in the series will be out in September, and it is called No Judgement.  I am so excited to read something new by Meg!  Especially an adult novel!

My husband and my anniversary is coming up this week.  We are celebrating six years together!  It is on Thursday and because I'll be working, we both decided yesterday to start celebrating a little early, and enjoy a full day with each other.  He ended up giving me a brand new Kindle!  My birthday is next month and I had mentioned I would really like a new one, because mine is eight or nine years old at this point, and doesn't really hold a charge anymore.  And since the new ones have the back lit screen to make night time reading better, I was sold!

I wasn't expecting to get it, especially this early!  But we are going on a road trip in a couple of weeks, and he thought I would like to have it on the road.  <3

He also got me this extremely adorable case!

I am so excited!  I have finally gotten back on Netgalley and Edelweiss, so I'm looking forward to having a real platform to read it with, because my eyes don't do well with backlit computer screens.  

And as a Meg Cabot fan, and her new novella having had just come out this past Tuesday, can you guess what the first book I bought for my new kindle??

Bridal Boot Camp of course!!  I had a $1 E-book credit from Prime too, so it was free!!! :)

From Goodreads:

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot comes the first story in her Little Bridge Island series-- which also includes an excerpt from her forthcoming new full-length novel No Judgements!

Looking for a tropical escape?  

Welcome to Little Bridge, one of the smallest -- and most beautiful -- islands in the Florida Keys, home to sandy white beaches, salt-rimmed margaritas, stunning sunsets, and some of the quirkiest -- but also kindest and most resourceful -- people you'll ever meet.

Physical trainer Roberta "Rob" James moved to Little Bridge hoping she'd found paradise, but things haven't turned out quite as she'd hoped.  The closest Rob has come to her "happily ever after" is happy hour at the Mermaid Cafe with her buddy Bree, the bartender slash waitress who's got romance problems of her own. 

But Rob's situation suddenly changes when sheriff's deputy Ryan Martinez accidentally enrolls in her bridal boot camp class.  Turning mush into metal in time for the big day is Rob's passion (because even the happiest bride could use a little toning).

But what happens when a guy who's all mush meets a girl who's all metal?

They discover they have a lot to learn... about each other, themselves, and the island paradise they've come to call home.

My Thoughts:

So besides the last part of that description, where it says Ryan Martinez enrolls in Roberta's Bridal Boot Camp, the rest of the description, while it makes sense, does not get described in the novella at all.  In fact, I really wish it had been.  The novella, while being a novella, which is a short story, was a little bit too much of a short story.  It was only 50 pages, and felt a little rushed.  After finishing the novella, I read the description for No Judgements, and was a little surprised to see it doesn't focus on the two characters, Roberta and Ryan, from this book; instead it focuses on Bree (which while mentioned in the book, does not get the description that the synopsis gives her).  I was expecting to hear more about Roberta and Ryan, because this novella started with a super rushed encounter between the two of them, and then ended kinds of abruptly. 

Overall Rating:

I am so torn between three and four bookies, because I love Meg's stuff.  And while I still really liked this novella, it didn't feel like a novella, but instead like a super teaser to another story.  I'm hoping we will hear more about them in the first novel, or in the future novels in the series.  I wish it had been at least 20 pages longer, and had more of a conclusion to this story at least.  But again, the first book in the series is coming out in September, so we will probably hear about it then!  ***fingers crossed***

The Romance Bookie :)