As much as I enjoy contemporary, this book really does live up to it's Goodreads rating. The story is good in conception, Perfect older sister, Eloise, is getting married in England bringing with her a ton of family drama; her half-sister, Alice, who recently had a miscarriage and is having an affair with her boss; half-brother Paul, who is realizing her boyfriend doesn't want to be monogamous anymore; and her mother, who is still missing her life traveling Europe with her ex-husband but is also having a hard time with the loss of her second husband to cancer. When Paul hasn't spoken to his mother in three years and refuses to go to the wedding at the last minute, a whole lot of family secrets and drama unfolds the wedding weekend.
I absolutely did not like this book. The author spends way too much time going into detail on very inconsequential things, such as what each and every character is eating at each and every meal but doesn't go into detail on more important things, like more of the family dynamic when the sibling were growing up. It almost reads like he needed a specific word count before he finished the book. The perspective also is pretty difficult to get through. switching between characters is fine but doing it in third person just makes it so annoying. Unless you also plan on reading the worst rated books on Goodreads, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.
Pros:
Fantastic idea
Cons:
Terrible execution
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