Thirteen Weddings

I can’t believe that a week ago I gave another Paige Toon’s book 5 stars (“5 years later”) because this one is so bad. The beginning was great and the idea of this book was nice but the execution was poor.
First of all the book is filled with unintersting small talk. Actually there is no storyline, people just come and talk about this or that…just Smalltalk. Besides, there is too much information about too many people that you couldn’t care less about them. All that while you wait that something important will happen to Bronte.
But the worst part is the fact that the relationship between Bronte & Alex is so lame. I can’t believe that their one night together made such an impact that 1.5 years later and another 1/2 a year of nothing more than smalltalk and no meaningful conversation they love each other enough to make an impact on their life.
I must say that the other relationship isn’t much better.
So I skipped parts and pages in the book because most of it was just blah blah and even the twist in the end wasn’t enough to anothr star to my review. One star is more than enogh.

The book begins with Bronte meeting Alex in a Club, each of them on hen/stag night. Both of them are newly single. They connect instantly, and ends up having a one night stand. One year forward they meet again. Even though it was only meant to be a one-night stand, Bronte never forgot Alex, and it doesn’t seem that Alex forgot about Bronte neither, but this time he’s about to get married to the girlfriend he was on a break from, when he met Bronte. Working together with Alex every single day is difficult for Bronte.
The whole situation with Alex is one big mess, and even though it’s a big part of her life, I loved that the story is not centered about them getting together or not, because there is something there is much more present in her life, which is figuring out how to deal with something that happened in the past. She can’t move forward alone or with anyone before she has accepted/forgiven her past.

I really like Bronte. She’s a woman that’s not scared of following her ambitions. She’s very straight forward, and not a shy person….. but there is also this secret side to her. She’s very affected by something that happened in her past, and it make her sound very cynical about love at times. She’s not a big fan of weddings. Doesn’t believe in marriage or god – imagine being a wedding photographer then?
It brought something to her character everytime she witnessed a wedding through her lens, and she grows through the book.

I’ve read all of Paige’s books, and is a big fan of hers, so obviously you might not take my words for something, but I truly think this is the best she has ever written.
I did the mistake of thinking this would be a sweet and fluffy romance with weddings, but what I got instead was a very strong, and bittersweet story.

There were times were I thought, wow this is much darker than what she use to write, but somehow the tone in the book is still kept very light. Bronte’s friends brought a lot of light to the novel. Lachie especially, who is a fellow aussie and wedding singer. He’s a warm person, and to quote Paige “This boy has more confidence than Johnny frigging Jefferson.” LOL. He’s really great. The ladies thinks so too 😉

I love the way Paige write. She has this talent for setting a mood, and place with very few words. Making her heroines warm, funny and strong women. I love that these women are someone you can look up to.

There were many great surprices in this book, and I can’t really tell you more without giving anything away.
But know this, this story brought just as many laugh as it did tears.

A great book – no, that doesn’t even cover it – An amazing book.

So Paige Toon is in my exclusive top favorite authors club. This was probably my least favorite and that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it. Ok, so maybe part of it I didn’t like and here it is. I am a wedding photographer and this book stressed me out. I don’t really like reading books about wedding photographers because it feels like work to me, and if you know what kind of books I like you will know that I don’t like to read books that are any work.

So that was my problem with it, still good and I I’m so glad she is the kind of author who can spit out books pretty fast, because I LOVE THEM!

So sweet and romantic and frustrating. OMG! But I can’t resist a book tvat gives me constant stabs in the heart. The beginning was so good and the story developed in a surprising way. I could have had less descriptions of all the weddings but there was one man I def couldn’t get enough of. I stayed up all night reading it and yes, this was a great chick flick. Read it!

I love paige toon and couldn’t wait to read this. The first part was,
Great but the heroine really treated,the should have been hero, instead of that wimp terrible. EVEN AT THE,end she left a door open to go back to Wimpman, and leave a guy who really loved her.

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