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Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” is the most recognizable piece of music especially when you are a young girl dreaming of your wedding day, but it is also the most dreaded for unmarried bridesmaids without a ring on their finger. For Cate Padgett, she just wants to survive this year, and the 4 weddings she agreed to be a part of without snapping the heads off of her Bridezilla friends; $400.00 for a tacky outfit here, $250.00 for horrible shoes there and all the Brides saying “of course you can wear that again”. Is Cate with her one and only or is she ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID? It’s mid July right now and I am in the midst of peak wedding season, whether it be Bridal Showers, or weddings themselves so ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID made me laugh out loud because I was witnessing this very book in living color. Cate is immediately affable and someone I could relate to and I would definitely want to chill with her. Lyles made it incredibly easy to get relate to this book and these characters seemingly without effort. When I was first introduced to Cate she appeared to have it all together and be in total control, but as is often the case how things appear isn’t necessarily how they truly are. Cate is in a relationship with Paul, who travels all the time and although they’ve been together for years, do they really know each other? Lyle’s conveyed all of Cate’s emotions without forcing it down the readers throat, it was relatable in the every girl has been there sort of way. There are
so many moments in ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID that I knew I had experienced
before and to see those experiences in a cheeky way reminded me of why we
love of our friends despite their tendencies to want $100.00 corkscrews for
a wedding gift, or for us to wear the most hideously awful dresses that of
course we can never wear again.
Reviewed by Merry |
ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID
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