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The Wedding Ringer
by Kerry Rea
What a debut by Kerry Rea! This book was one of my reading highlights on 2021. The real romance of The Wedding Ringer is really friendship - letting go of bad ones, but also not letting those bad experiences miss out on new ones. I loved the relationship between Willa and Maisie, it was well developed, with Maisie’s kindness slowly tearing away with walls Willa had after discovering her ex-fiancé and best friend cheating on her.
This book, funnily enough shares the same premise as Katy Birchall’s The Secret Bridesmaid - both books about secret paid bridesmaid, and both have friendship between bridesmaid and bride as the real romance but both executed in a different, but compelling way.
Rea turns the ‘grumpy/sunshine’ trope on its head by making the female lead character Willa the grump, but instead of it only being the love interest as the sunshine, it’s also the friendship interest. I’m really over grumpy being always the male, while sunshine is always the female and it’s written so one dimensionally. Not in this book, Willa and Maisie are complex, three dimensional characters whose life experiences have shaped their outlook.
This book is touching, poignant and utterly delightful.
This book, funnily enough shares the same premise as Katy Birchall’s The Secret Bridesmaid - both books about secret paid bridesmaid, and both have friendship between bridesmaid and bride as the real romance but both executed in a different, but compelling way.
Rea turns the ‘grumpy/sunshine’ trope on its head by making the female lead character Willa the grump, but instead of it only being the love interest as the sunshine, it’s also the friendship interest. I’m really over grumpy being always the male, while sunshine is always the female and it’s written so one dimensionally. Not in this book, Willa and Maisie are complex, three dimensional characters whose life experiences have shaped their outlook.
This book is touching, poignant and utterly delightful.