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	title:	The Wedding Day
	author:	Catherine Alliott
	format:	Paperback
	publisher:	Headline Review
	released:	June 14, 2007
	isbn:	0755336933
	isbn-13:	9780755336937

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Customer Reviews
Light-hearted & Girly - Rated What a great light-hearted read. Very chick-lit with the usual splash of humour, sex, romance and just the right amount of predictability - excellent for a holiday/weekend read. WRITING BY NUMBERS - Rated I am a great fan of Catherine Alliott which is probably why I found this book so disappointing. It was formulaic in the extreme - although that is possibly a charge that could be levelled at all chick lit. The characters were cliched - ditzy novelist, sensible Saffy-type daughter, control-freak sister, rugged Mr Right etc etc. Also, every single book she writes features someone who bites their thumbnail! How irritating!! Her characters must have chewed off whole digits by now. Likewise, in this particular book, everyone "licked their lips" over and over again. Aagh! Not one of her best and sadly, gave the impression of having been written in a rush. Not for me - Rated This was the first Catherine Alliott book I've read. It's also the last. I bought it as she's recommended by Marian Keyes (my favourite author) but I couldn't see any similarities between the two. I found it unfunny and the characters unbelievable. There seemed to be too many monologual (if that's a word!) rants which I don't find realistic. Flora is 12 years old but the way she is written makes her sound like an adult - another thing I found unbelievable. The author also liked to name drop designers which I find irritating, regardless of who the author is. I also found that at over 500+ pages, it dragged. In all, it's like most chick-lit books - you love it or hate it. very entertaining - Rated Romantic fiction is nothing if not formulaic, and it wouldn't be particularly difficult to create a computer program that manipulated the finite number of available characters and subplots into a variety of possible combinations. That's really not the point. Okay, you can play 'spot the subplot' all you like, as well as identifying the set characters who pop up in each of Catherine Alliot's books under a different name. Yet this is well-written stuff by the standards of the genre. You may be pretty sure what the ending will be, but it's always a puzzle quite how Alliot will get her heroine that far, given the obstacles she blithely throws at her characters. If mildly witty dialogue, comfortingly predictable yet sympathetic characters, and a happy ending isn't your sort of thing, then you're certainly in the wrong corner of the bookshop. So, you go and find something challenging to read, I'll sit here quietly with a pot of tea, my Catherine Alliot novel, and a packet of biscuits, and we'll see who enjoys their book the most... Great and varied plotlines - Rated I don't know how Alliott keeps all the balls in the air at the same time while still maintaining the reader's interest in each character. Not only do we root for Annie as she tries to write her novel and straighten out her lovelife (ex-husband, fiance, rugged American houseguest) in a lovely Cornwall cottage, but we also become sympathetic towards her perfect, annoying, controlling sister and her own marriage. We feel for Matt, Annie's American houseguest, as he deals with his horrifying ex-wife in a fight for his son, and enjoy Annie's daughter Flora as she struggles with teenage angst. Alliott writes with such sensitivity and humor. Characters are never stereotypical; plotlines are never boring. This is a great read.

Customer Reviews

Light-hearted & Girly - Rated 4/5
What a great light-hearted read. Very chick-lit with the usual splash of humour, sex, romance and just the right amount of predictability - excellent for a holiday/weekend read.

WRITING BY NUMBERS - Rated 2/5
I am a great fan of Catherine Alliott which is probably why I found this book so disappointing. It was formulaic in the extreme - although that is possibly a charge that could be levelled at all chick lit. The characters were cliched - ditzy novelist, sensible Saffy-type daughter, control-freak sister, rugged Mr Right etc etc. Also, every single book she writes features someone who bites their thumbnail! How irritating!! Her characters must have chewed off whole digits by now. Likewise, in this particular book, everyone "licked their lips" over and over again. Aagh! Not one of her best and sadly, gave the impression of having been written in a rush.

Not for me - Rated 1/5
This was the first Catherine Alliott book I've read. It's also the last. I bought it as she's recommended by Marian Keyes (my favourite author) but I couldn't see any similarities between the two.

I found it unfunny and the characters unbelievable. There seemed to be too many monologual (if that's a word!) rants which I don't find realistic. Flora is 12 years old but the way she is written makes her sound like an adult - another thing I found unbelievable. The author also liked to name drop designers which I find irritating, regardless of who the author is. I also found that at over 500+ pages, it dragged.

In all, it's like most chick-lit books - you love it or hate it.

very entertaining - Rated 4/5
Romantic fiction is nothing if not formulaic, and it wouldn't be particularly difficult to create a computer program that manipulated the finite number of available characters and subplots into a variety of possible combinations.

That's really not the point. Okay, you can play 'spot the subplot' all you like, as well as identifying the set characters who pop up in each of Catherine Alliot's books under a different name. Yet this is well-written stuff by the standards of the genre. You may be pretty sure what the ending will be, but it's always a puzzle quite how Alliot will get her heroine that far, given the obstacles she blithely throws at her characters.

If mildly witty dialogue, comfortingly predictable yet sympathetic characters, and a happy ending isn't your sort of thing, then you're certainly in the wrong corner of the bookshop. So, you go and find something challenging to read, I'll sit here quietly with a pot of tea, my Catherine Alliot novel, and a packet of biscuits, and we'll see who enjoys their book the most...

Great and varied plotlines - Rated 5/5
I don't know how Alliott keeps all the balls in the air at the same time while still maintaining the reader's interest in each character. Not only do we root for Annie as she tries to write her novel and straighten out her lovelife (ex-husband, fiance, rugged American houseguest) in a lovely Cornwall cottage, but we also become sympathetic towards her perfect, annoying, controlling sister and her own marriage. We feel for Matt, Annie's American houseguest, as he deals with his horrifying ex-wife in a fight for his son, and enjoy Annie's daughter Flora as she struggles with teenage angst. Alliott writes with such sensitivity and humor. Characters are never stereotypical; plotlines are never boring. This is a great read.