The Wedding People – Book Review

Quick Review:- one of the best contemporary genre book I have read. From start to finish, I was hooked into this book

Rating:- 4.5/5

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, without luggage, alone. Everyone in the lobby mistakes her for one of the wedding people at an impending wedding on the site, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t there for the big event.

Phoebe is there because she’s dreamed of coming for years. She hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe’s plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is a nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

Phoebe Stone, a nineteenth-century literature professor at a university in Missouri arrives to grand Cornwall Inn in Rhode Island, with nothing but just a dress, heels and a bottle of cat’s painkillers. But there is a wedding celebration that is taking place inside the inn and the inn is fully booked for the wedding guests. Phoebe is the only one who is not the wedding guest and she has no interest in taking part in the wedding. Then we have the bride Lila who meets Phoebe in the elevator and the two confide each other about their lives and Phoebe becomes a part of the wedding celebration.

I heard so much raving reviews about this book, so I have wanted to read this book. And yes, this book in my opinion was actually a great read and one of the best books I have read this year. Phoebe is a very interesting character–she could witty, funny, loyal in someway and someone that you would want to hang out with and dwell all your problems to her. Lila, the other main protagonist might be the typical spoilt rich girl and was kind of odd to see friendship brewing between Phoebe and Lila. Then we have other characters like Gary, a doctor who is the groom, Marla, Gary’s sister, Jim, Gary’s ex-wife’s brother.

I like how all the days of the week are divided into wedding preparations. I felt like a part of the wedding preparations as I was reading through this book. There is also a small love triangle set in this book. There were some funny parts in the book that actually made me laugh out loud.

This book lived up to all the hype and I really enjoyed this book. This was the first book I have read from this author and cannot wait to read more from this author. Worth 4.5 stars.