A review by obsidian_blue
The Wedding People by Alison Espach

5.0

Not a lot to say about this one. I really enjoyed it. I didn't care for Espach's other book, but she managed to hit the perfect combination of drama, comedy, and even hints of romance throughout the book. I really felt for the main character of Phoebe Stone who is still reeling after her husband left and divorced her two years earlier. Watching her slowly come awake due to the insanity of the wedding and all of the people she meets was very good. And I applaud Espach for not going there with the ending. I would have called BS a thousand times over. I love the way this ended with it just feeling very realistic and true to what came before it. 

"The Wedding People" follows Phoebe Stone who checks into an inn called the Cornwall Inn in Newport, Rhode Island. Phoebe has plans and they get derailed when she realizes that she's the only person at the inn who is not there to attend a wedding. When the bride to be, Lila, figures that out and what Phoebe has planned, there's a lot of messiness and laughter to go along with Phoebe finding out more about the wedding people while thinking on her former marriage. 

I really loved Phoebe as I said earlier, and Lila grew on me. The two of them are different stages, Lila wanting to believe in love and happily ever after and Phoebe wondering about whether she really had a chance to be herself before meeting and falling in love with her ex-husband.

I did enjoy the other characters we get to meet such as Gary, Jim, Juice (do not ask), and heck even Phoebe's ex. The whole book really is about how we get very messy (we are human) but try to be better and just how much easier things would be, if we didn't try to force things that don't feel right. 


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