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A Book Review by abcdefg81:

Wedding Season

HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE!!!!  I couldn't even get past the first chapter of this book.  It's about a chick that gets invited to 17 weddings set to take place over six months, or some obscene number of weddings set to take place in a short period of time.  Sounds like the typical kind of fluff fiction I would want to read right?  Well, I wanted to like it, but just couldn't!

A blurb on the back cover describes it as "Jane Austen meets Candace Bushnell."  I should have inspected the cover more carefully and considered myself warned.  I hate both Jane Austen and Candace Bushnell.  And the description, unfortunately, couldn't be more accurate.

I think Jane Austen is just way too descriptive and too emotional... too much text devoted to how the characters feel; I think that the reader can tell how the character feels by reading about what they DO and what they SAY.  I really don't need the author telling me "Mary felt so overwhelmed with joy she thought she had died and gone to heaven."  I mean, seriously.  Plus, Jane Austen's style of writing is so old-school and so crammed with words that it just sounds so pretentious.  Which is exactly how I would describe the style of "Wedding Season."  Reading it reminded me of talking to English or Philosophy majors, the type who think they're a lot smarter than they really are; I mean, so you can read, b.f.d., so can this math major.  At least Jane Austen had as an excuse the fact that she WAS writing back in the day when everyone was stuffy and pretentious and had nothing better to do but ponder their feelings.  Whoever wrote "Wedding Season" doesn't have that excuse. 

So, take that and mix it with Candace Bushnell... I couldn't get through "Sex and the City" either.  Just too much negativity (and I'm a negative, cynical person, so that should tell ya something), and too many people taking themselves way too seriously.  So, the combination gives you a pretentious, negative piece of crap that tries to be smart, but fails miserably. 

Fluff fiction (which, btw, is what you're writing, when you're writing about 17 weddings in six weeks) should be just that, fluffy and light.  And yes, fluff fiction can be cynical... but I think it needs to be done in a way that's more satirical and less obvious and explicit.

Rating:  ZERO STARS.  If I could give it negative stars, I certainly would.  Now I'm going to post this scathing review on Amazon :)