Prompt #44: A book that includes a wedding

A great prompt to start the year as I had the perfect book on my TBR. The Christmas Wedding Guest by Susan Mallery is festive and fun and perfect holiday reading.

What it’s about?

The Somerville sisters believe in love, but they’ve lost faith it will happen for them. Reggie hasn’t been home since the end of the world’s shortest engagement. When her parents decide to renew their vows, she buffs up her twinkle to help with the Christmas wedding. Unexpectedly, Toby, her first love, is back too, and the spark between them shines as brightly as ever. In the spirit of the season, will they let go of past hurts and greet the New Year together?

Done waiting for the one, Dena is pregnant and on her own—on purpose. But then a gorgeous, sad-eyed songwriter checks in to a room at her inn. Micah, unable to write since he lost his wife, finds inspiration in Dena’s determination to be a mom. One snowflake-speckled kiss and he’s a goner. But Dena is afraid to believe that a rock star could fall for a cookie-cutter small-town girl like her.

As the Christmas wedding draws closer, these two sisters just might unwrap the most treasured gift of all—love.

What I think:

This is perfect festive feel good fiction.

Wishing Tree is such a cute town. It definitely gives me Stars Hollow vibes. It takes Christmas very seriously with lots of festive themed traditions and shops. It’s all deliciously over the top, but there is a real sense of community and the holiday spirit certainly gets the whole town thinking about love.

Dena and Reggie, the Somerville sisters are well liked but unlucky in love. Reggie broke up with her home-town fiance very publicly just one day after their engagement party, and Dena is single but pregnant having decided to be inseminated rather than wait for a nonexistent Mr Right.

But the holiday season brings the fun and romance to Wishing Tree and while helping their own very happily married parents prepare to renew their vow, the Somerville sisters face some romantic dilemmas of their own.

Dena finds herself falling for a gorgeous, troubled rock star Micah, whose band-mate has brought a Christmas Tree farm in Wishing Tree.

Micah is absolutely too good to be true. He’s gorgeous, friendly and thoughtful. Despite his rock star status he happily does odd-jobs at the Inn, helps at the school and Christmas Tree farm when he’s not writing his next hit single.

Reggie finds out that her first love, high school boyfriend Toby is back in town. He now has a son from a short-lived relationship and is a single-dad and successful businessman. It’s not long before their spark is rekindled.

Everyone in this book is gorgeous and lovely. Their problems, while potentially awful are never more than mildly challenging, misunderstandings are swiftly resolved and of course everyone lives happily ever after.

Overall this is a delightfully frothy read that is perfect for cosy winter nights.