Lily Weiss is a writer stuck in a prestigious but boring PR job who somehow ends up being a bridesmaid in 5 weddings simultaneously. As she manages her brides and family opinions on her weight, single status, and overall life prospects, Lily decides to channel her frustration into a blog called Bridesmania where she writes (mostly) honest and snarky recaps of her adventures. When she unexpectedly falls in love and reaches a breaking point, she has to climb out of a hole of her making.

While Lily was pretty heinous on the blog, I could have forgiven it had the main conflict in the book not been so absurd. My least favorite romance trope is months/years of tension based a simple misunderstanding, and that is the basis of Lily’s entire story. Without spoiling it, I felt as though we wound up to this huge cliff only to find out we had only climbed two feet off the ground. Lily is at times not a great friend, but more importantly, she has awful friends! A certain love interest redeemed the story - had this book simply been about friendship and family, I would have knocked another star 😕

this was actually cute and fun! i rarely read books within this genre because some don't just meet my expectations, but this was quite the book and i did enjoy my time with it. Another first from the author, a solid one and i would love to recommend.

This book was, for me, a little too complicated. I loved it, i love the author’s style and i love the dry wit of the main character, she made me laugh so many times, but i was also having a hard time following all the different characters. The point of the story is exactly that, that Lily has too many friends getting married at the same time, and the author showed the confusion of all the different friendships perfectly!
I loved it and will reread it for sure, as soon as i have enough time to delve in and remember the characters better!

What can I say?? This book was hilarious and heart warming, and showed the importance of friendship while still being light hearted. 
Lucy is a single 32 year old who is invited to 5 weddings in two months, AS BRIDESMAIDS!. And to add insult to injury, two of them are her younger siblings.
And with her little income slipping through her fingers, mum-zillas let loose and killer bridesmaids, Lily finds it surprisingly cathartic to blog about it all. She can rant to a few thousand strangers and no one will know!
But what happens when everyone does know??
This book was so refreshing and funny and the writing was amazing! This is a classic for all lovers of rom-coms which are moderate on the romance and heavy on the comedy.

I LOVED this book. I cannot recall a moment where I was starting to get bored or uninterested. There was always a new little twist that kept me engaged. 

Although I cannot directly relate to Lily, I can empathize with the way she is being treated by some of her closest friends and family. She had so many thoughts and feelings going through her head all at once, yet she did not want to upset any of the people she loved. So she translated those feelings into writing which is her biggest passion. This did come back to bite her in the butt when her post gains views. But there were a lot of lessons learned from this mistake that helped Lily develop as a character. I love the humor of her blogs and references to relatively recent events or people. 

There were SO many relatable themes throughout the novel, which I think is what ultimately kept me so interested. I found myself reflecting about how I would respond in Lily's situation and understanding why she felt the way she did. 

I think the way Sara Goodman Confino incorporated romance into this novel was clever and not too overbearing. It wasn't the main focus of the book, but it developed nicely and was really a cute story. 

I would definitely recommend this as a joyful read with a great storyline, that'll leave you happy! Once I got into it, I had a hard time putting it down. I was reading every break I got, which says a lot about the quality of a book.

I would like to thank Netgalley for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Lily Weiss has been asked to be in five weddings. Naturally, Lily said yes, wanting to do the right thing for all of her friends, but wedding mania begins with Lily stuck in the middle of it. Evil bridesmaids, demanding mothers, garish dresses, how will Lily survive it all? For Lily, the answer is to start a blog, Bridesmania, and snark about all of the low points for the preparation of each wedding. For the Love of Friends is a hilarious story, following the main character, Lily, and her quest of succeeding at all of these weddings. Can she do it?

The cutest and best book ever! I honestly loved every single moment of it. Lily was such an interesting and enchanting main character, and I wanted to know more about her every moment I kept reading. The plot line of For the Love of Friends is creative, funny, and just so amazing! As soon I as started reading, I didn't want to stop reading. Confino did a really good job depicting the craziness of weddings, especially for someone, like myself, who has never been in a wedding before. To think about all the pain and labor that actually goes into a wedding is actually frightening, and Lily portrayed that for us by showing the behind-the-scenes horrors of each wedding.

There were many secondary characters that I enjoyed, such as Megan, Caryn, Becca, Amy, Lily's grandmother, but my favorite secondary character was Alex. The friendship Alex and Lily formed because of the weddings was honestly precious. I enjoyed reading anything about Alex, and I wish I had my own Alex. He is perfection! Without these secondary characters, none of the major drama in the book would've gone on, so I'm glad that they're there. Megan was so adorable, and I could tell how strong Megan and Lily's friendship was. Likewise with Becca. Caryn was amazing at first until she got into the nitty-gritty of her wedding. Then, she was an absolute beast about anything and everything, but it made the novel more enjoyable. Amy was so stuck-up, but I feel like Amy was more misunderstood than snobby. She was achieving the one thing that Lily hasn't achieved yet, and she was taking pride in it. Lily's grandmother was a hoot! Anytime Lily was around her, I was always ready to hear what her grandmother had to say. She was amazing!

I really enjoyed For the Love of Friends. It has all the important aspects of a romantic comedy. If you like Christina Lauren or Kiley Roache, you'll definitely like For the Love of Friends.

Happy reading!

As someone who has been a bridesmaid 11 times, I relate a lot to this story. After the kind of year we've all had, it's been really refreshing to read something lighter and fun!

For the Love of Friends follows Lily, a 32-year-old PR writer, who is in 5 weddings in the same year. She starts a blog about her experience to make a little more money so that she can cover the expenses of the weddings. 

This is the book about a bridesmaid that we all needed. It was a riot and I could not stop reading. Though it was a little slow in the beginning because of all the background information, the story picked up in no time. One of my favorite things about the book, besides the blog posts themselves, was the voice of the main character Lily’s narrative voice was so much fun to read. She’s snarky, opinionated, and extremely funny. I really liked how Lily’s character developed through the course of the book. I really liked that she started to notice the things she could do to be a better person and be better toward her friends and family. 

I really liked that the book also focused on the relationships between Lily and her friends, her family, and her love interest. It was nice to get a look at her friendship and family dynamics and see how they changed as she grew as a person. I enjoyed reading all these characters, they were so well fleshed out and so dynamic. I loved all the drama and all the hectic wedding events. 

One of my favorite tropes to read is the best-friends to lovers trope and this book delivered. It’s definitely a slow burn. I loved seeing the evolution of their relationship and how they went from strangers to best friends to lovers. 

This book was just a joy to read and I would highly recommend it.

This is a really funny feel-goods book about Lily, a single 32-year-old, who is due to be a bridesmaid at 5 weddings over the course of a 2 month period. She decides to blog about her experience to try and make a bit of money on the side to cover the costs of the weddings.

There is a wide variety of very realistic characters throughout this book, they were so well written I could really imagine them as real people. Lily was a really funny and cynical character who felt very relatable and imperfect. The characters I enjoyed reading the most were the ones I hated. Caryn’s friends and Lily’s mother were definitely the most hateable characters in the book and they were just so well written. Alex was probably my favourite character in the book, he was an absolute sweetheart.

The whole concept of this book was absolutely brilliant and fantastically written. There was nothing particularly surprising about the outcome of the book but it didn’t need to be surprising. It was a fun and entertaining book that I did not want to put down

For the Love of Friends is a hilarious but real look into the life of a bridesmaid...x5. Lily agrees to be in 5 weddings within a few short weeks of each other. And to cope, she starts an anonymous blog to rant about the Bridezillas. 

This book was hilarious, with a narrator you both hate and relate to. Lily is not the most self aware person, but we all know that friend or family member. I’m sure we can also relate to some of the stressors she experiences as a bridesmaids, and how our friends can change when weddings are in the picture. This was a quick read that kept me on my toes. While it was somewhat predictable at times, it was fun to watch this all unfold in front of Lily. I definitely recommend this book if you want a laugh, and a light read.

Me lo he pasado genial leyendo este libro, es divertido, fresco y ligero. Mi parte fdavorita ha sido la primera mitad. Genial.

Cute chick lit story that is relatable as a woman in her late 20's early 30's. I enjoyed the sharp and witty humor throughout and thought the main character Lilly was relatable and fun!

For the Love of Friends was entertaining and engaging. Reminiscent of 27 dresses and Bridesmaids, this book reads like a rom-com but the characters are better fleshed out and the plot slightly more realistic. Of course, the plot was simple and anyone who has watched their fair share of rom-coms knows exactly how the story would play out but the writing kept me so engaged that I read it all in one  night. The main character, Lily, was the perfect mix of snarky and real. She was not perfect by any means, but that's what made her so likable. The issues didn't get magically resolved either and she did have to have real conversations, which I can appreciate. Lily's connection and relationship with the love interest was a charming delight to read, 
Overall I enjoyed the book and it was definitely worth losing a night of sleep. It doesn't hurt that the cover is cute too.

This is a totally fun and enjoyable novel. For the Love of Friends is delightfully humorous and shines as one of the best funny book I have read.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This book as a lot of appeal for the mid twenties to mid thirties crowd. I really liked Lily and her friends—I felt like they reminded me of several of my friends and their own misadventures through dating, engagements, wedding planing, etc. I also love this because Lily really is a good friend and good bridesmaid, which did hurt the believability that she would write some of the blog posts she does. They were a little too on the nose/mean, but I guess they have to be in order to forward the plot (as opposed to taking the smarter, more discrete option of changing facts enough that the posts are still entertaining while not being too obvious). I thought the opening romance might mean this mostly women’s fiction book would also fall into a romance but the love story is definitely a side story to Lily’s relationships with her friends, but the story doesn’t suffer because of this. 

Overall, I liked it. If you like 27 Dresses, Say Yes to the Dress and all those TLC spin-offs, or frankly have been a bridesmaid you will probably find someone to relate to in this book.

This book really surprised me, I loved Lily as a character and the story itself was a fun and easy read. I cannot recommend it enough.

I found this book entertaining and easy to read. However, I thought the story was a little overly simplistic.

Thank you to Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

For the Love of Friends grabbed me immediately. It was fun, honest, relatable, and, at times, heartbreaking. I found Lily Weiss to be quirky, and at times a bit annoying, but overall I really loved her character. As a former journalism major, I completely understood her need to write and a place to call her own.

However, I knew from the first blog post Lily wrote that it was going to end in disaster if her friends found the blog. Even though she never named anyone by name, there were too many personal details for it to be "anonymous."

There were certainly parts that I could see coming and expected to happen (let's just say "viral status"), but I love that it all ultimately led to Lily rediscovering her true passion, writing.

The book even inspired me to think about blogging again!

All in all, a really cute read.

I really loved it!!

From the start itself, I was having 27 dresses vibes, I loved the movie, and so I was slightly surprised when this went on a slightly different tangent.

We have our protagonist, a woman who's in her thirties, isn't married, and is accidentally involved in five marriages at the same time. And she ends up starting to lose her own life whole helping others in theirs. She sees a broke woman in her future, and so she starts a blog to vent all about it, and also earn some money while doing it, and things predictably go up in flames.

I only recently started a blog, and so I found the blogging parts of this insightful as well as enjoyable! The author has a really wonderful voice, and she was very good at mixing the serious bits with the funny, so that it never seems too much. I really loved the writing style. It was also really realistic, compared to what I was expecting!

I loved the body positivity in this a lot. And I was hating the way so many others were approaching it. All the Botox, and eyelash extensions, and hair dye, and weight loss, etc moments, have just reaffirmed my decision to never ever do anything like that to my body. If I get white hair or wrinkles, or anything, I'm living with it.

I really liked the mother and daughter relationship, and how the relationship seemed so different between siblings. All the siblings have different ideas of what the relationship is like for all the other siblings, and I found it so realistic, the way one would think the other was being favoured, while the other would think the first was being favoured, all at the same time!

And not only the mother daughter relationship with our MC, but also the other characters which were getting married. Some relationships were built on fear, some on dominance, but in the ned, everyone only really wanted the best for the others.

I loved the romance in this! It was so different from what I'd expected! (view spoiler) And their relationship was so much more than romance. There was friendship and a much deeper connection than I'm used to with romances.

I will definitely be checking out other books by this author in the future!

I really loved it and I would recommend it to anyone who likes romance laugh out loud moments, enjoyed 27 dresses, loves wedding drama, accurate mother-daughter relationships, and romance that creeps up on you without warning. Even thought you knew it was happening all along.

“For the Love of Friends” is a whimsical novel by debut author, Sara Goodman Confino. 

I have been reading a lot of serious fiction lately so this novel was a quirky surprise. We meet Lily, who like many writers, has an unfulfilling job that pays the bills. In her thirties, Lily has a variety of friends as well as a younger sister and brother getting married; she ends up being ask to step in as a bridesmaid in five different weddings in a two month period. All of that angst needs to be funneled somewhere and Lily decides to create a blog (and also raise a little cash for bridesmaid related expenses) where she anonymously posts about what it’s like to deal with a variety of brides and their accompanying eccentric family members. 

The author has a lively writing style that pulls you write into the story. The different brides—especially Caryn and Megan—manage to avoid falling into most bridezilla clichés and instead, be entertaining. Each bride is well-developed though some of the situations they find themselves in are a bit plausible. The novel stays in Lily’s point of view—excerpts of her blog intermingled with her narration. Readers should be able to relate to Lily. How many of us felt like we were watching everyone get to do what they want to do while we stood on the sidelines? Because Lily was so likable, I was able to get past some of the forced plotting choices and occasional dialogue that did not ring true. 

This is an enjoyable read and fits the bill for comfort food that tastes great doing down and doesn’t give you (too much) guilt when finished. 


Thanks to the author, publisher and Netgalley for my advanced copy.