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WIJFR: Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest
I received this book as an early reviewer and it comes out May 1st.
Jen Doll, the author, is a reporter and a blogger. This is her book about going to weddings, and how she feels about weddings, and marriage, and love, and relationships, and being single. There are some funny moments, but there are also some really sad moments (when she makes out with a guy at his bachelor party and has a drunken temper tantrum when she's asked to leave). I was hoping for a light-hearted, funny account of being a wedding guest, but it wasn't that. The funny moments are usually about drinking too much and hooking up with a wedding guest and it felt very juvenile. Interlaced with those moments was very serious introspection about what it means to be married and be successful in relationship and, to be honest, that's not what I was interested in. The writing was okay- definitely more blog style than memoir or novel. The audience for this book seems to be women in Jen's shoes- 20-30 somethings who are not married and all her friends have already found their "one".
I'm kinda disappointed- was hoping this book would be more like a Jen Lancaster or David Sedaris. I'll cut her some slack since it's her debut, but I was hoping for more.