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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
Another good Elin Hilderbrand read. Especially love the NC references in this one!
even though I disliked 90% of the characters it was a decent story. well written and with an ok plot. the characters are all selfish, petty, annoying, or all three. even the dead ones.
jenna is getting married. and even though her mother is dead she doesn't have to worry, she planned out jenna's entire wedding before she died of cancer. manipulating her entire family into giving jenna the wedding she wanted, simply by planning it out just before dying. and how is she going to achieve her plan? by putting everything on her eldest daughter's shoulders. even though she and her husband made margot miserable and feel like she's a failure in everything except her professional life. and this carrys onto everyone in the family. they treat her like crap, but yet expect her to bend over backwards to do their dirty work. and like a good doormat, she does. even though it means making her life take a step back and not doing what she wants.
and jenna. a spoiled brat who is so used to getting her way she turns her fiancee into a weenie who can't make a decision for himself. she wraps everyone around her finger and gets her way.
wow. I apparently liked this book less than I thought...
jenna is getting married. and even though her mother is dead she doesn't have to worry, she planned out jenna's entire wedding before she died of cancer. manipulating her entire family into giving jenna the wedding she wanted, simply by planning it out just before dying. and how is she going to achieve her plan? by putting everything on her eldest daughter's shoulders. even though she and her husband made margot miserable and feel like she's a failure in everything except her professional life. and this carrys onto everyone in the family. they treat her like crap, but yet expect her to bend over backwards to do their dirty work. and like a good doormat, she does. even though it means making her life take a step back and not doing what she wants.
and jenna. a spoiled brat who is so used to getting her way she turns her fiancee into a weenie who can't make a decision for himself. she wraps everyone around her finger and gets her way.
wow. I apparently liked this book less than I thought...
I have on!y read a few Elin Hilderbrand books but this was my favorite so far. Great story.
Entire book takes place in a weekend and so it was pretty easy to read it in a weekend. Like the Nantucket themes of her books. Some areas rushed but all in all a good book.
lighthearted
fast-paced
Fun, fast read, full of scandal and family secrets. Sure to warm up the cold winter nights!!
Jenna Carmichael’s wedding will be perfect. Her mother, Beth, has made sure of it. Knowing she was dying, Beth left the Notebook, suggestions for each aspect of Jenna’s big day. “…song lyrics often make good readings. Try the Beatles. No one has ever gone wrong with the Beatles.”
Taking Beth’s suggestions as unquestionable and gospel, Jenna and her older sister Margot, different as can be, do everything they can to stick to their mother’s wishes, but even with or perhaps because of her input, each family member still keenly feels the loss.
The Carmichaels and the Grahams, the groom’s family, are loving, but as in any family, tension and long-held resentments surface. Brothers and sisters rail against their traditional positions. The father of the bride desperately misses his former wife and questions his current marriage. The sister of the bride wonders where she stands with the man she’s secretly been dating. The groom’s mother and father – married twice – navigate an old rift, namely the woman with whom he cheated and had a child.
As everyone tries to come together, the Notebook and the carefully laid plans are threatened, leaving everyone to realize that in holding tight to the past, good or bad, they may be threatening their own futures.
Taking Beth’s suggestions as unquestionable and gospel, Jenna and her older sister Margot, different as can be, do everything they can to stick to their mother’s wishes, but even with or perhaps because of her input, each family member still keenly feels the loss.
The Carmichaels and the Grahams, the groom’s family, are loving, but as in any family, tension and long-held resentments surface. Brothers and sisters rail against their traditional positions. The father of the bride desperately misses his former wife and questions his current marriage. The sister of the bride wonders where she stands with the man she’s secretly been dating. The groom’s mother and father – married twice – navigate an old rift, namely the woman with whom he cheated and had a child.
As everyone tries to come together, the Notebook and the carefully laid plans are threatened, leaving everyone to realize that in holding tight to the past, good or bad, they may be threatening their own futures.
Another good book- this one has a little PS I Love You feel to it.
I thought this book was a paradigm of total egotism and the smallness of wealthy people's problems. Every pov in this novel is absurdly self centered. I would not recommend, there is nothing novel in this book.
I really enjoyed this light fluffy bit of Chick Lit. Hilderbrand throws together all the catastrophes that can happen in a large family wedding and organizes it all with an instructional wedding notebook written for the bride by her dying mother. While this sounds constricting, it was a clever way to ground some of the zany moments during the weekend on Nantucket.
Many, many laugh out loud moments...like the mother of the groom, distressed that her husbands ex wife shows up at the ceremony in a bright fuchsia dress then creates a scene, comments that the woman is a hot pink poker up her a$$. Okay, it loses something in the telling but rolled into the story it was very entertaining.
If I have one complaint it would be that the constant references to The Notebook kept me thinking of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdam. :)
Many, many laugh out loud moments...like the mother of the groom, distressed that her husbands ex wife shows up at the ceremony in a bright fuchsia dress then creates a scene, comments that the woman is a hot pink poker up her a$$. Okay, it loses something in the telling but rolled into the story it was very entertaining.
If I have one complaint it would be that the constant references to The Notebook kept me thinking of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdam. :)