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A review by bookdrgn
A Country Wedding by Leigh Duncan
4.0
I’ve often watched movies based on books and was disappointed by the adaptations and crucial elements they missed. I’ve also watched movies not based on books and wished they were.
And this is what A Country Wedding is. It is a book written and based on the Hallmark movie of the same name.
I have mixed feelings about this. It’s a great love story and is literally the movie in print with a deeper look at the inner thoughts of the characters.
Bradley Suttons, small town boy who left at the tender age of thirteen when he lost his parents the day after ‘marrying’ his childhood best friend who wanted him to still have a family, is not a grown country music star hot off the heels of a Grammy win and newly engaged to beautiful movie star Catherine Mann, who has been in the Hollywood business her whole life.
Sarah Standor stood by Bradley as he experienced something no child should have to experience. The loss of both his parents in the same accident. She has become a trained vet who rescues old and sick horses at great losses to her finances when their owners stop paying their bills. She is on the verge of losing her ranch but is still pleasantly surprised when Bradley returns to Mill Town to sell his former home.
Bradley decides he wants to marry his fiancé in Sarah’s barn, where their childhood nuptials took place. So, together with Sarah, he plans a small wedding (even though he knows none of his bride’s favourite things) and in exchange, helps her mend the ranches broken fences.
Predictably they begin to develop feelings even though they deny them. Sarah falls hard for Bradley while he still thinks himself in love with Catherine, yet the longer he stays in his hometown, the more he doesn’t want to leave.
Catherine is a Hollywood darling and she thrives on it, I’s all she’s known. For all his intentions to bring Catherine down to his level, Bradley doesn’t realise that isn’t who Catherine is and vice versa. It is clear to viewers/readers they aren’t suited and as these formulaic things go, he will ultimately choose to be with Sarah.
Things that irked me were some of the inner thoughts of Bradley didn’t match his facial expressions in the movie and Catherine was portrayed as a stereotypical Hollywood selfish starlet. We are what we grow up with unless we actively choose to change.
The epilogue to the book was nice, seeing the characters after the end of the movie and their cordial interactions with Catherine and her new beau.
It’s definitely a different experience reading a book based on a movie, but ultimately if you love reading as I do, it’s definitely worth the time.
And this is what A Country Wedding is. It is a book written and based on the Hallmark movie of the same name.
I have mixed feelings about this. It’s a great love story and is literally the movie in print with a deeper look at the inner thoughts of the characters.
Bradley Suttons, small town boy who left at the tender age of thirteen when he lost his parents the day after ‘marrying’ his childhood best friend who wanted him to still have a family, is not a grown country music star hot off the heels of a Grammy win and newly engaged to beautiful movie star Catherine Mann, who has been in the Hollywood business her whole life.
Sarah Standor stood by Bradley as he experienced something no child should have to experience. The loss of both his parents in the same accident. She has become a trained vet who rescues old and sick horses at great losses to her finances when their owners stop paying their bills. She is on the verge of losing her ranch but is still pleasantly surprised when Bradley returns to Mill Town to sell his former home.
Bradley decides he wants to marry his fiancé in Sarah’s barn, where their childhood nuptials took place. So, together with Sarah, he plans a small wedding (even though he knows none of his bride’s favourite things) and in exchange, helps her mend the ranches broken fences.
Predictably they begin to develop feelings even though they deny them. Sarah falls hard for Bradley while he still thinks himself in love with Catherine, yet the longer he stays in his hometown, the more he doesn’t want to leave.
Catherine is a Hollywood darling and she thrives on it, I’s all she’s known. For all his intentions to bring Catherine down to his level, Bradley doesn’t realise that isn’t who Catherine is and vice versa. It is clear to viewers/readers they aren’t suited and as these formulaic things go, he will ultimately choose to be with Sarah.
Things that irked me were some of the inner thoughts of Bradley didn’t match his facial expressions in the movie and Catherine was portrayed as a stereotypical Hollywood selfish starlet. We are what we grow up with unless we actively choose to change.
The epilogue to the book was nice, seeing the characters after the end of the movie and their cordial interactions with Catherine and her new beau.
It’s definitely a different experience reading a book based on a movie, but ultimately if you love reading as I do, it’s definitely worth the time.