Fit to Be Tied

by Karen Kendall

This is Jen's shining moment, her wedding day, and all she can think about are her blueberry stained teeth, her crazy soon-to-be-divorced parents, and her missing shoe. What's really on her mind,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451220781
• ISBN13: 9780451220783
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Invokes a carousel of emotions

Adding adventure and laughter in the recipe for this morsel of a treat. Be prepared for an afternoon of pure pleasure. Fit to Be Tied is a made-into-a-movie starring Sandra Bullock fabulous.~Affaire de Coeur

beyond what you would think

Karen Kendrall has a distinct writing syle that for this book was not there. The story was from Jen's point of view, with all the characters in the story you definatly frlt half crazed. But none of the other characters had enough depth to really counter Jen. The plus side I was abble to dee an entire story though one persons eyes, which did only give you one piece of the puzzle, which is alot like real life. The character M.E. was Jen's best friend but she really did not have a very big impact on the story, actually I am not sure why she was even there considering we have no clue how her story ened. I do recommend this storyfor it is a good story and anyone who has ever been in a long term relationship can understand quite a lot about what Jen is going through.

Something old...and something new

Fit to Be Tied, by Karen Kendall is not your average romance novel. Rather than following a couple from the first stirrings of attraction to happily ever after, it begins with an engagement. There is no cute meeting, but a thoroughly awful wedding with a drunken groom and a manic bride. Instead of tender moments on the road to romance, this novel charts tender moments on the road to divorce. When Tom Brookfield proposes to Jen Canby, everything seems perfect. But by the time the wedding rolls around, Jen believes it can't get any worse. From the missing bridal shoes to an overly endowed ice sculpture cherub, she handles crisis after crisis until a leggy blonde appears at the reception and introduces herself as Tom's first wife. Then the drama really begins. Though the newlyweds make peace long enough to leave for the honeymoon, and to have a wild, if slightly inebriated wedding night, Jen decides the next morning that trusting Tom again is out of the question and the only answer is divorce. What follows is the at times light, at times dark, and always a bit mad, story of Jen and Tom and the maturation process they both must undergo before they can make their marriage more than a $35,000 mistake. The parallel story of Jen's parents and their own struggle back from the precipice gives some much-needed clarification of why Jen behaves the way she does. And Tom's best friend Chase gives a window into the reasons he didn't tell Jen about his first marriage to begin with. It's easy to see the screwball divorce comedies of the 1930s and 40s as inspiration for a novel like this. Like George Cukor in "The Philadelphia Story" or Leo McCarey in "The Awful Truth," Kendall explores what happens when a divorcing couple still love each other but try to get divorced anyway. Fit to Be Tied is a satisfying read and should offer a fresh diversion for romance readers hungry for something old and something new. The borrowed and blue they'll have to find on their own. Armchair Interviews says: Nice twist on "romance."