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rockwrengj's review against another edition
5.0
Being someone who always loves the epilogue in a book, I enjoyed this final entry to the Elm Creek Series. I avoided reading it for many years because of the jump in the timeline, but ended up really enjoying the wrap up.
jbarr5's review against another edition
5.0
Title: The Wedding Quilt
SubTitle: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
Pub Date: 11/01/2011
ISBN: 9780525952428
Author: Jennifer Chiaverini
the wedding quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
love how this one starts out, i have read a few books in this series and the history of how it all started was given it's due here and i remember the earlier books. it's great to see that this series is still ongoing and progressing in helping others with their passion of quilting. I love the history of it all and how the people involved help one another to achieve their goals.
from beginner to master quilter this book is also about the lives of the people involved in this series through time adding others and some have moved on, what a tale. the folklore is super to learn about. it talks indepth detail on how
and what the wedding quilt is.
When Sarah and Matt have the babies. with snow and his job in a far away town the ladies keep her busy and help with everything. the book picks up where the girl is now grown and ready for her marriage at the Elm Creek center where she grew up. reminisciences of past lives are brought to the present.
this book follows many of the people involved from the original book of the series, lovely descriptions, very detailed making you wish you could vacation there.the treasures they find are super, almost like a mystery and following the clues til you discover the answer. what a treat to find that in this book. the education one can get about quilting in days gone by according to the color and patterns is phenominal.
i rate this book a 5 out of 5
SubTitle: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
Pub Date: 11/01/2011
ISBN: 9780525952428
Author: Jennifer Chiaverini
the wedding quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
love how this one starts out, i have read a few books in this series and the history of how it all started was given it's due here and i remember the earlier books. it's great to see that this series is still ongoing and progressing in helping others with their passion of quilting. I love the history of it all and how the people involved help one another to achieve their goals.
from beginner to master quilter this book is also about the lives of the people involved in this series through time adding others and some have moved on, what a tale. the folklore is super to learn about. it talks indepth detail on how
and what the wedding quilt is.
When Sarah and Matt have the babies. with snow and his job in a far away town the ladies keep her busy and help with everything. the book picks up where the girl is now grown and ready for her marriage at the Elm Creek center where she grew up. reminisciences of past lives are brought to the present.
this book follows many of the people involved from the original book of the series, lovely descriptions, very detailed making you wish you could vacation there.the treasures they find are super, almost like a mystery and following the clues til you discover the answer. what a treat to find that in this book. the education one can get about quilting in days gone by according to the color and patterns is phenominal.
i rate this book a 5 out of 5
maryfrances_odea's review against another edition
1.0
Wow! Not impressed and I really wanted to be. I was really curious as to what had happened to all the characters, but this book seemed like Jennifer was just totally sick of all of them.
I really thought the "flash forward" 25 years was an awkward time period and the "flash backs" to everyone's lives was too gimmicky and frankly made the book boring.
Hopefully the next one will be MUCH better!
I really thought the "flash forward" 25 years was an awkward time period and the "flash backs" to everyone's lives was too gimmicky and frankly made the book boring.
Hopefully the next one will be MUCH better!
hheartbooks's review against another edition
4.0
I did not like how the story line jumped forward by 25 years, but I think this book wrapped up Elm Creek Quilts. Though there may be more books to follow, this is the last I'll read.
julibug86's review against another edition
3.0
*Received a copy through a Goodreads giveaway!*
I had two major issues with this book:
1)I didn't realize it was set in the future until about 60 pages in. I guess I just think the future will change more than that and would be more noticeable. Like, think 25 years ago and imagine all the things that weren't invented - the internet, cell phones everywhere, etc.
2) The other issue is that it's not about the wedding at all. As an engaged person, I enjoy reading about weddings. But this was really just the mother of the bride remembering all her good times with the Elm Creek quilters.
But, despite all that, it really made me want to go to quilt camp (if such a thing exists).
I had two major issues with this book:
1)I didn't realize it was set in the future until about 60 pages in. I guess I just think the future will change more than that and would be more noticeable. Like, think 25 years ago and imagine all the things that weren't invented - the internet, cell phones everywhere, etc.
2) The other issue is that it's not about the wedding at all. As an engaged person, I enjoy reading about weddings. But this was really just the mother of the bride remembering all her good times with the Elm Creek quilters.
But, despite all that, it really made me want to go to quilt camp (if such a thing exists).
kairosdreaming's review against another edition
2.0
I've faithfully read every one of the Elm Creek Quilts books in order. And this is the latest installment. While a lot of these could be read stand alone, I think too much background information is lost to read it that way if you plan on reading the entire series. Although, it seems that with each book Chiaverini gets further and further away from the comfort of the first books.
It's several years into the future and Sarah McClure's daughter is getting married. As she prepares for the wedding at Elm Creek Manor, Sarah reminisces back over the previous twenty five years to when the twins were born and certain events that happen during those years. Most notably, a lot of time is given to the saving of Union Hall from development and it's place as a historic building on the register to protect it. The Elm Creek Quilter's were a big part of that and she goes on to describe how it happens. There is also a long sequence on the birth of the twins and little snippets of other stories here and there interspersed with greeting guests for the wedding and working on a surprise quilt for her daughter.
Even though I knew all the characters in this book, I have to say, they just didn't feel like themselves. Sarah has always been a bit standoffish to me but in this book she completely didn't seem herself and more like a stranger. Her husband Matt was even worse as I couldn't bring myself to like him at all. Sylvia was absent, what with it being twenty five years in the future and her an old lady in even the original books, and many of the other characters were departed or unable to attend due to age. It was rather depressing actually. Sarah's children I felt no connection to as we were rushed through most of their childhood and only got glimpses of them in this book. So I really didn't care about the wedding at all since I didn't know the character. While some of the old characters were glimpsed in the flashbacks by Sarah, those were the only times that I really felt connected to the book and they weren't near long enough.
Because of all the flashbacks the book was terribly hard to sink into. It was jarring to read and I would have preferred that Chiaverini actually take the time to take all these events and make their own book. Starting this far in the future made it seem as if she is done with the series and that's all fine and dandy if she is, except that I know there's another book after this one. So it will be interesting to see what that contains since everything else is wrapped up in this book. At the very least it may signal that she's done with this particular set of characters, which will be disappointing as I didn't care for her historic forays in the series that much and that seems to be what will be left in the series. There was very little about quilting in this book as well and while a sub plot was started up about quilting, I never actually saw the ending too it, although it could have been lost in the confusion of the subplots I suppose. I wanted so much to like this book in spite of the ending of my favorite characters, but even the writing style left much to be desired.
Just not the book I thought it was going to be. Depending on the next book in the series I may choose to discontinue reading these books as I become more and more disappointed with each one. Authors have a right to choose to write about something else, but as a reader I have the right to continue not to read if that does happen. I can only hope Chiaverini somehow gets back to the characters I love after this one.
The Wedding Quilt
Copyright 2011
321 pages
Review by M. Reynard 2012
More of my reviews can be found at www.ifithaswords.blogspot.com
It's several years into the future and Sarah McClure's daughter is getting married. As she prepares for the wedding at Elm Creek Manor, Sarah reminisces back over the previous twenty five years to when the twins were born and certain events that happen during those years. Most notably, a lot of time is given to the saving of Union Hall from development and it's place as a historic building on the register to protect it. The Elm Creek Quilter's were a big part of that and she goes on to describe how it happens. There is also a long sequence on the birth of the twins and little snippets of other stories here and there interspersed with greeting guests for the wedding and working on a surprise quilt for her daughter.
Even though I knew all the characters in this book, I have to say, they just didn't feel like themselves. Sarah has always been a bit standoffish to me but in this book she completely didn't seem herself and more like a stranger. Her husband Matt was even worse as I couldn't bring myself to like him at all. Sylvia was absent, what with it being twenty five years in the future and her an old lady in even the original books, and many of the other characters were departed or unable to attend due to age. It was rather depressing actually. Sarah's children I felt no connection to as we were rushed through most of their childhood and only got glimpses of them in this book. So I really didn't care about the wedding at all since I didn't know the character. While some of the old characters were glimpsed in the flashbacks by Sarah, those were the only times that I really felt connected to the book and they weren't near long enough.
Because of all the flashbacks the book was terribly hard to sink into. It was jarring to read and I would have preferred that Chiaverini actually take the time to take all these events and make their own book. Starting this far in the future made it seem as if she is done with the series and that's all fine and dandy if she is, except that I know there's another book after this one. So it will be interesting to see what that contains since everything else is wrapped up in this book. At the very least it may signal that she's done with this particular set of characters, which will be disappointing as I didn't care for her historic forays in the series that much and that seems to be what will be left in the series. There was very little about quilting in this book as well and while a sub plot was started up about quilting, I never actually saw the ending too it, although it could have been lost in the confusion of the subplots I suppose. I wanted so much to like this book in spite of the ending of my favorite characters, but even the writing style left much to be desired.
Just not the book I thought it was going to be. Depending on the next book in the series I may choose to discontinue reading these books as I become more and more disappointed with each one. Authors have a right to choose to write about something else, but as a reader I have the right to continue not to read if that does happen. I can only hope Chiaverini somehow gets back to the characters I love after this one.
The Wedding Quilt
Copyright 2011
321 pages
Review by M. Reynard 2012
More of my reviews can be found at www.ifithaswords.blogspot.com
auntblh's review against another edition
4.0
This book was set in the future (25 years) with a lot of flashbacks to fill in what happened between "The Aloha Quilt" and the time frame of this story. Overall, I enjoyed the book although I could get a little confused on the timeline with all the jumping back and forth.
triciawil's review against another edition
4.0
I've so loved this series. This one leapt 25 years forward from the last but did a nice job catching up with all the beloved characters and I'll admit a few tears were shed.
hkeeney7398's review against another edition
3.0
I didn't enjoy this one as much as the others in the series that I have read. I did enjoy hearing about what happened to all of my favorite characters though.