Book Review - Amanda's Wedding

 

Amanda's Wedding - Jenny Colgan

Mel and Fran can't believe it when their old schoolfriend Amanda, Satan's very own PR girl, pulls off the ultimate publicity stunt in getting herself engages to a Scottish laird.

Who cates that Fraser McConnald has worn the same pair of Converse trainers for the last three years and that his castle is a pile of rubble with one Calor Gas heater - she'll be titled!

Something must be done...

Gentle, decent Fraser is clearly ignorant of her wiles, and Mel and Fran still smarting from the memory of all the mean things Amanda put them through in their days at Portmount Comprehensive, set out to sabotage this mismatch of the century.

So between fighting off the attentions of a love-crazed accountant, keeping Fran's deadly manoeubres with the opposite sex under control and trying to win her own war of love with the elusive but gorgeous Alex, Mel finds herself attending a wild Scottih stag night, a hen night from hell, and preparing for a wedding that's everything you'd wish on your worst enemy.

I've been reading this book for a while. Well, I read the first few chapters over a week or two and then over the past few days I've got really attatched to it. It is full of twists and I am pretty annoyed about the ending, but I did like it because there was an EPILOGUE which actually ended the book! If the book didn't have this, it would have made sense but I prefer the fact that it does have one.

The story is told from the POV from Mel. We are thrown straight into the story, her life and her relationship with other characters in the book. 

We a given a few flashbacks towards the start of the book to give more background to the book which if they didn't have, the book wouldn't make sense in parts. 

I mentioned that I didn't like the end of the book. Only because I wanted Mel to end up with one guy and thought that she was going to but she ended up with someone else. Otherwise, the ending of the book is perfect, one of the best endings which I have read for a long time.

I haven't really got much else to say about this book. It is really good, it does take a little while to get into it but it is worth it, and does have plenty of twists (one which I KNEW way before we found out ;) ). Worth reading :) xxx