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jesswelsh1123 's review for:
The Wedding People
by Alison Espach
dark
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is so close to a 5 star read for me. I teared up at many points as we got to experience the binding of stories, people, their collective healing, their flaws, and their assets.
It was such a beautiful look at what it means to be alive, to be human, to accept our own skin and live in it with grace and honesty and courage and love. I loved the journey of this book.
The only reason I cannot give it 5 stars is that I found some of the inner dialogue (and sometimes character dialogue as well) to be very crass in ways that weren’t necessary and sometimes felt borderline excessive. I was appreciative that the romance aspect was not the forefront of this story and as such there weren’t explicit scenes as much as explicitly sexual language.
Also left it a 4 star because I wanted a little bit more of a tidy conclusion about Phoebe and Gary’s future as a couple. I wanted more closure.
It was such a beautiful look at what it means to be alive, to be human, to accept our own skin and live in it with grace and honesty and courage and love. I loved the journey of this book.
The only reason I cannot give it 5 stars is that I found some of the inner dialogue (and sometimes character dialogue as well) to be very crass in ways that weren’t necessary and sometimes felt borderline excessive. I was appreciative that the romance aspect was not the forefront of this story and as such there weren’t explicit scenes as much as explicitly sexual language.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Infidelity, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt
Moderate: Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Dementia