Reviewer: Samantha
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Summary:
Crushed by a sudden break up with her slick advertising executive boyfriend, real estate journalist Emily Novat feels like she is the only single girl in a world of happy couples.
At 32, Emily wonders if she will ever get her own happy ending.
Things start looking up however, when a tipsy Emily unwittingly enters and wins the prestigious Glam Bride magazine Dream Wedding Contest.
The only catch is, Emily must blog about her experiences in the lead up to her ”wedding day.”
With prizes including a Tiffany’s Bridal Shower, a High Tea Party – plus presents – at a posh hotel, and a wild Bachelorette party, Emily won’t let a little matter such as not having a groom stand in the way of enjoying the high life for a just little while.
After all the heartbreak she been through, Emily deserves a little fun. And it’s bonus if it makes her ex-boyfriend jealous.
As the popularity of her blog – A Bride’s Guide to Getting Married – sky-rockets, Emily finds herself becoming the IT girl about town,
A blossoming friendship with Glam Bride’s gorgeous nice-guy photographer Luke, assigned to capture the lead up to her big day makes it all the more fun.
As the big day draws nearer though, the guilt starts eating at Emily, who starts to finds extracting herself from her Dream Wedding is not as easy as she first thought it would be…
Review:
Since I’m a newlywed and also currently writing a book based around a wedding, I’m always eager to read a story about a bride-to-be, especially a good chick lit one. While Emily isn’t exactly a bride-to-be, she is the big winner in a Dream Bride contest, and fakes an engagement while reaping the crazy amazing benefits such as a Tiffany’s diamond engagement ring, front row at fashion shows, and rubbing elbows with celebrities and the elite. All of this is happening without anyone actually confirming she is engaged, which seemed pretty unlikely given the magnitude of prizes being handed out. If you forget that idea, the story is pretty cute and I was able to enjoy it. I would have liked it more if the editing had been much tighter – not nearly enough contractions in the dialogue to make it sound realistic was my biggest issue – and the formatting was a little strange to me. New paragraphs started seemingly all the time, so I get getting flustered by who was speaking and why a new paragraph was consistently happening. A good idea for a novel, but the execution wasn’t quite fully there.
