Always the Bridesmaid (Cate Padgett #1)
Wild, witty, and full of weddings to cry over, Always the Bridesmaid is an endearingly romantic comedy about standing out in the crowd even when everyone's wearing the same celery-green dress...and daring to make every day The Happiest Day of Your Life.
This book was so entertaining! It definitely delivers in the rom-com department - it's exactly what you think it is, full of outrageous bridezillas, loyal girlfriends, and many moments that made me laugh out loud. I'm totally stealing the expression "You can go to hell in a handbasket." Also, I love how the author is 26 years old and has been a bridesmaid 5 times! I feel you, girl. I wonder how many of the disasters in the book are based on things that happened at the weddings she was part of.
3.7 ish. Cute story, decent enough. Some things could have been left out and not have detracted from the plot. Just overall a cute fluff read. Okay but probably wouldn't read it again.
First off, this book was different. Most chicklits I've read feature a female protagonist who is a model, a journalist, a photo journalist, rich, a celebrity or becomes one of those things through the course of the book OR the male protagonist is either rich, a celebrity, an attorney, a journalist or something along those lines.This book - and this is important, so I want to say this upfront - features characters in much more normal jobs. Kudos and bonus points to the author for that.On to the
I couldn't finish. The author was trying too hard to be funny and the writing was amateur. Please dont even bother.
GROAN....my guilty pleasure, frothy chick lit. After reading a 500-page war novel, this was a cute distraction. It had all the basic hallmarks of a good chick-lit novel: messy girl in bad relationship who can't see the forest through the trees, realizes that she's strong enough not to need a man, but then gets one anyway. There were a lot of details put in that at the time seemed to foreshadow events, but ended up just being extraneous. It was a good read while I was bedridden for a few days.
Every time I watch a chick flick that is based on a book I think to myself, when will they stop ruining perfectly good books and giving us such emotional cliched plots? Reading this book, I felt like I was watching a chick flick. It was a trifle disappointing to find that out, it wasn't a bad book though. Not at all, I just didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I found the plot redundant and Cate didn't really shine out as a strong character to me or someone I'd actually care about. Both
Whitney Lyles
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.57 | 1223 Users | 79 Reviews
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Original Title: | Always the Bridesmaid |
ISBN: | 0425195139 (ISBN13: 9780425195130) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Cate Padgett #1 |
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What do you do after you walk down the aisle in four weddings in a few months-none of them your own? What's left after you've donned the must-have-not dresses of the season, forked over your cash, and fake-smiled your way through countless photos? After you've dealt with the smashed guest, the smooshed cake, the dashed hopes, and the missed bouquets? That's what Cate Padgett is starting to wonder, as she embarks on stint after stint on the sidelines, watching friends swap bar-hopping for baby-naming...while her own love life goes nowhere fast. But is Cate unwilling to settle down-or just unwilling to settle? And can anyone really judge her if they haven't walked in her dyed-to-match shoes?Wild, witty, and full of weddings to cry over, Always the Bridesmaid is an endearingly romantic comedy about standing out in the crowd even when everyone's wearing the same celery-green dress...and daring to make every day The Happiest Day of Your Life.
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Title | : | Always the Bridesmaid (Cate Padgett #1) |
Author | : | Whitney Lyles |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
Published | : | February 3rd 2004 by Berkley Books (first published January 1st 2004) |
Categories | : | Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Romance. Fiction. Contemporary. Humor |
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Ratings: 3.57 From 1223 Users | 79 ReviewsWeigh Up Appertaining To Books Always the Bridesmaid (Cate Padgett #1)
This book was nothing I expected, when I started reading this I was sure that it was not going to be good I don't know why but it was good, in fact I liked it! I laugh a lot and enjoyed reading this book, it would be perfect if the author had write two more chapters but oh well !!! the only thing that I didn't like about this book was the romance, the main character is with her boyfriend almost all the book but the reader obviously knows that "he's not the ONE" and I don't want to spoil theThis book was so entertaining! It definitely delivers in the rom-com department - it's exactly what you think it is, full of outrageous bridezillas, loyal girlfriends, and many moments that made me laugh out loud. I'm totally stealing the expression "You can go to hell in a handbasket." Also, I love how the author is 26 years old and has been a bridesmaid 5 times! I feel you, girl. I wonder how many of the disasters in the book are based on things that happened at the weddings she was part of.
3.7 ish. Cute story, decent enough. Some things could have been left out and not have detracted from the plot. Just overall a cute fluff read. Okay but probably wouldn't read it again.
First off, this book was different. Most chicklits I've read feature a female protagonist who is a model, a journalist, a photo journalist, rich, a celebrity or becomes one of those things through the course of the book OR the male protagonist is either rich, a celebrity, an attorney, a journalist or something along those lines.This book - and this is important, so I want to say this upfront - features characters in much more normal jobs. Kudos and bonus points to the author for that.On to the
I couldn't finish. The author was trying too hard to be funny and the writing was amateur. Please dont even bother.
GROAN....my guilty pleasure, frothy chick lit. After reading a 500-page war novel, this was a cute distraction. It had all the basic hallmarks of a good chick-lit novel: messy girl in bad relationship who can't see the forest through the trees, realizes that she's strong enough not to need a man, but then gets one anyway. There were a lot of details put in that at the time seemed to foreshadow events, but ended up just being extraneous. It was a good read while I was bedridden for a few days.
Every time I watch a chick flick that is based on a book I think to myself, when will they stop ruining perfectly good books and giving us such emotional cliched plots? Reading this book, I felt like I was watching a chick flick. It was a trifle disappointing to find that out, it wasn't a bad book though. Not at all, I just didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I found the plot redundant and Cate didn't really shine out as a strong character to me or someone I'd actually care about. Both
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