“With that settled, there was the issue of keeping the details of five weddings straight. I, to put it mildly, lacked major organizational skills.”

Lily Weiss is a 32 year old Journalism graduate working as an unfulfilled science journalist. She says yes to being a bridesmaid in 5 weddings, all taking place within weeks of the other….including the parties, bridal showers, and many, many dress fittings for each. As a way to vent about the various terrible and stressed people she meets, and her lack of passion in writing about the latest gamma ray experiments, Lily creates an anonymous wordpress blog: Bridesmania.

This book surprised me. From the description I was expecting something more similar to Jenny Colgan – a fun mostly light story with a bit of a puzzle or suspense throughout. Like a nice book to read on a chilled evening, you know? I didn’t bargain for quite so much drama!

As the voice and main character of the book, Lily was warm, likeable, and entertaining. I enjoyed that we both heard Lily’s thoughts and got to read the blog posts she wrote too. Because of this, I was so involved in her thoughts that some of the twists and turns in the story were unexpected, simply because she hadn’t thought about it and so neither did I.

Falling into this book was instantaneous, and had I not had to put it down to eat I would have read it in one sitting. I fully credit this to the talent of the author’s writing, as normally I’m not one for this sort of drama in a book. The plot moved along at a good pace, I felt neither rushed nor wished it would speed up at any point. I only wanted to rush through it a bit because I am an impatient reader and, despite my previous claim of “not being one for this sort of drama in a book”, I really wanted to know what was going to happen!

My only critique is that sometimes the events and people felt like teenagers in high school, although it is true that (unfortunately) people like this exist. I also felt her reactions (aside from the snarky anonymous blog) were sometimes unrealistic, although it may just be that she is a better person than I am. Saying that, Lily’s room-mate, Becca, did say her life was turning into a reality TV show- so I guess I can’t complain!

I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to read a book filled with drama, friendship, and humour. It left me kind of wanting a sequel, especially after the last few pages – although I can’t say why as that would be a spoiler!