The Wedding Planner

 This is a book review. Title of the book is "The Wedding Planner" by author Danielle Steel. Published in 2023 by Delacorte Press in the US and Pan Macmillan in the UK. The fictional genre is contemporary romance. 

Set in New York, a successful wedding planner called Faith is like a fairy godmother, who can spin dream weddings and help people's weddings become amazing for them. She's often confiding in her twin sister Hope, and her friend/employee Violet. Even though she can run her business really well and is extremely popular, sought after by the very rich, she herself keeps insisting she'll never marry. Past bad relationships ended any ideas of that.

Her clients are a very eccentric bunch, who want this and that done for their wedding. There are the Alberts, who are really super rich parents making decisions on what their daughter's wedding should look like. They've asked for over-the-top things and their daughter will be the bride, who has allowed them to control everything apart from the dress. She soon confides in Faith that she's pregnant. The idea of a pregnant bride will upset her parents. It then unfolds that her dad was misbehaving so her parents split up and called off the wedding, or left it in suspense for now. Then there are other couples who include Punch and Judy type couple with abusive Doug and his victim/fiancé Phoebe.   

Overall the book was filled with repeated phrases and cardboard characters. Reading this was like eating a bowl of sugar. There was hardly any drama and no decent beginning, middle or end. It went nowhere, reading like a documentary, dragging on and filled with boring dialogue. It was repetitive, slow and very sickly. A lot of childbirths throughout the novel in detail featuring pop-up characters. I rate this novel a 1/10 even aware the author is a bestseller and written many books over the years. It's taken me four days to read and now it's going into the bin.

My personal likes is the idea of flower horses and swans. 

My personal dislikes is the rest of the book

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