Newly Wed

By Nancy E. Krulik

Book Overview

After being hooked up by an online dating service, Jesse and Jen agree to write about their first year of marriage for the service's website, but after the glow of the honeymoon wanes and reality sets in, they find married life more than they bargained for. Suited to older teen readers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689876602
• ISBN13: 9780689876608
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 16 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 11 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable

Jen and Jesse has just gotten married. They met each other just eight months ago on a website called Duets. Their family thinks they are too young to get married but they go ahead with it. And so starts this beautiful dreamy wonderful book. Jesse is twenty three years old just finish college and is a business man and Jen(Jennifer) his wife is an art major who is slightly ditsy. So starts this marriage of opposites. Obviously anyone who read this book will right away think of the Newlywed show on mtv but this book has a life of its own completly from the show. I thoroughly enjoy I ached when they fight, happy when they made up, and glad they make it back together in the end. What can I say I am a sucker for happy ending. One of my fellow reviewers says they hope they turn this book into a series I hope not I like tidy neat signing off of my characters.

Wonderful!!!

I bought this book like 3 days ago and I can't put it down! I am a HUGE fan of MTV'S Newlyweds and I can see some of the same behavior in this book. I hope the author develops the book into a series because I want to read more about Jesse and Jen! If you liked the Gossip Girl series than you should definitly read the book. I am a 15 year old and this is one of the books I actualy enjoyed. I hope my review was somewhat helpful. We all have different tastes but if you like the teen books that are new and fresh then this is definitly a MUST READ!

"Going to the chapel...."

College senior, Jen, and recent college graduate, Jesse, met through the online dating site Duets. They never thought they would find true love, but they did. Now Duets has chosen them as the "Couple of the Year," and has agreed to pay for their wedding. The only catch? Jen and Jesse have to write an online diary about married life for Duets' site, that way other Duets members can keep track of the goings-on with the couple after they've said "I do." Jen and Jesse couldn't be happier, and agree immediately. After all, they love each other, and nothing will ever change that. That is, until reality sets in, and life becomes hard. Ordering food in every night of the week, assembling complicated furniture, paying the bills every month...Soon the young couple has just had enough. Throw in a herd of meddling family members, and you've got trouble. As someone who watched Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey's reality show NEWLYWEDS on MTV on occasion, I can definitely see the similarities between that show and Nancy Krulik's most recent literary effort. Krulik has done an amazing job of putting down on paper how hard it is to be a young couple in today's society. Especially when half of that young couple is in school. Her descriptions of fights, and making-up are wonderful, and will easily show readers the upsides and downsides of marriage. Overall, NEWLY WED is sure to be a hit with readers - especially those who were a fan of the reality show NEWLYWEDS or who are newlyweds themselves, as they will easily relate to the two main characters, who are, in their own right, quite entertaining. Erika Sorocco Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper