In the first of a new series, Lauren Layne takes readers down the aisle with TO HAVE AND TO HOLD. As you can expect from the title and the cover of this book, this entire series is wedding themed. But this book isn't filled with happy faces and I-love-yous completely. In fact, the hero of this book, Seth Tyler, is quite the pessimist so this book wasn't what I expected. When his sister is about to wed a scumbag, Seth does his best to get his sister to reconsider her wedding. However, it doesn't work as well as he plans and it actually has the opposite effect of what he intended. Now, he's stuck with dealing with a celebrity wedding planner while things just seem to get worse.

Unfortunately, I had trouble getting into this book and the main reason for this was because I didn't like the hero. I thought Seth was introduced in a very negative way and for the rest of the book, I just didn't fall in love with him like I expected to. He's kind of a sour puss and to top it all off, he is a bit cocky and demanding as well. Those, for me, are traits that didn't make me enjoy his character as much as I hoped.

When the heroine is introduced, I hoped she would change him or at least show a different side of him, but again, Seth just didn't wow me. I wish he did. Because of this, the romance faltered. I wasn't a huge fan of the dialogue or the banter between the hero and heroine. I did enjoy Layne's writing style though, so I think I will be reading the next book in the series just to see if I can still get into it. I just felt that the hero could've been a lot better, especially if he's intended to be the man the heroine is going to marry.