A Midsummer Night’s Fling by Beth Matthews Book Blitz
Synopsis: A Midsummer Night's Fling - The Stage Kiss Series Book #1 - Beth Matthews - July 2014
After dating her
childhood sweetheart Max on and off for years, aspiring actress Nicola
Charles is finally ready to move on. It's time for her to focus on her
stage career and stay away from Max-before he can break her heart again.
Max regrets hurting Nicola, but he wants another chance. So when his
play loses its leading lady, giving Nicola the part seems like the
perfect opportunity to win back his old flame. But the course of true
love-and a theater production-never do run smooth. As Max fights to
reignite Nicola's love, the onstage antics can't rival the bedlam
backstage: a neurotic cast, a prickly crew, and an evil diva of a
director who's got designs on Max. As Nicola and Max battle to keep the
drama onstage, Max can't help wondering if their romance will end with
the last performance. Or have the two of them finally captured what
they've dreamed of all their lives? True Love.
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22774710-a-midsummer-night-s-fling?from_search=true
Top 5 Reunited Lovers
Since my book A
Midsummer Night's Fling is about a pair of reunited lovers (they were
sweethearts in high school and college), I thought it would be fun to talk
about my Top 5 Reunited Lovers of All Time.
5.
Fred and Lily from Kiss Me Kate
"Deceive
me, desert me, I'm yours 'til I die…so in love with you am I."
My favorite musical and my favorite feuding
lovers. I grew up watching the 1950s version with Howard Keel. These two are
immature, tempestuous, spoiled, and perfect for each other. You certainly
wouldn't wish them on anyone else.
4. Navarre and Isabeau from Ladyhawke
"Do you know that hawks and wolves mate for life?
The Bishop didn't even leave us that... not even that."
One of my
favorite movies as a teenager. The curse on these two is so poignant: "always
together, eternally apart." She's cursed to be a hawk during the day; he's
cursed to be a wolf during the night. When they're finally together again as
humans in the end it makes me cry. Every.
Time.
3.
Captain Wentworth & Anne Elliot from Persuasion
by Jane Austen
"You
pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late,
that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with
a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a
half ago."
The classic example of lovers reunited. The
yardstick, perhaps, by which we measure all other reunion stories? I know it's
pretty darn hard to top Wentworth's love letter to Anne quoted above.
2. Logan
and Veronica (LoVe) from the Veronica
Mars TV show and movie
"I
thought our story was epic, you know, you and me…Spanning years and continents.
Lives ruined, bloodshed. EPIC."
These guys are probably so near the top
because I love them so much together, and I ended up waiting for their reunion
in real time. Seven years! When the TV show was cancelled
they were still broken up. I gnashed my teeth at that injustice but, luckily,
**SPOILER ALERT** earlier this year LoVe got the reunion they deserved in a super
romantic scene from the Veronica Mars movie. Yay! No more
waiting!
1. Westley
& Buttercup from The Princess Bride
"Death
cannot stop True Love; all it can do is delay it for a little while."
Can anything top this line? Really? Westley
braves pirates, kidnappers, evil princes, and all the dangers of the Fire Swamp
to reunite with his true love. And, once they finally are back together, their
kiss is certified as the Best Kiss Ever. And that's one of many reasons why
this is my favorite reunited lovers story of all time.
Honorable
Mentions:
*Allie and Noah from The Notebook (the kissing in the rain scene!)
*Charming and Snow from Once Upon a Time TV show ("I will find you. I will always find you.")
Well, I listed mine, your turn now. Who are some of
your favorite reunited lovers? Who do you think should have made the list? :)
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