The Wedding Party
Ratings18
Average rating3.9
My favorite of the three so far! I love a good enemies to lovers story, and as per usual the audiobook narration was absolutely perfect. I didn't want this story to end!
I am happy, I gave Guillory's novels another shot. I really enjoyed this novel. This love story was very modern and relatable.
[2.5 stars] It started off very shallow, and by the end, became something I could tolerate. So far, my least favorite of the series. I want more from the series besides the same tropes but swapping out new characters.
the hidden romance stories are always a fave but i wished the author gave us more hints to when alexa knew
Plowed through The Wedding Party pretty darn fast, since I needed a break from reading heavy, dark-subjected books. It was enjoyable, but I'm ready for Guillory to leave this set of characters behind now and move on to some new ones, I think.
First of all, this book coincides in time with many of the storylines from both The Wedding Date and The Proposal, both of which are better books than The Wedding Party, so there is a lot of crossover action from books I've read before and have seen some of these storylines from different characters' perspectives already. Sometimes I loved that (Drew and Alexa wedding planning) and sometimes I felt it was very unnecessary (most of the time Carlos was around, with the exception of Alexa's engagement party).
Second of all, I never for a second believed that Theo actually hated Maddie, and even though a lot of the book is from his perspective, he didn't feel fleshed out enough. Like, his whole deal with universal pre-K that he was working on — I never got a sense that this was of value to him beyond just I Am Man, Look at Me Getting Ahead — whereas Maddie's motivations (and obvious disdain for Theo) were much more fleshed out.
Third ... sigh. We get it, these characters like pizza, we don't need to see them order it 40 times. We get it, Theo has a little brother, who is described as his little brother about 4000 times, even though once you're adults in your 30s, the relative age of your siblings literally is nothing anymore.
But even with these complaints, this book was fun, and the ending with Alexa's wedding day was SO DAMN GOOD, it made up for lots of the things I wasn't thrilled about.