Rowena’s review of The Bachelorette Party by Karen McCullah Lutz.
After being left at the altar by her soap star fiancé, L.A. high school teacher Zadie Roberts wants nothing to do with love and romance. Still, with the help of her best buddy, Grey, she may somehow overcome the wedding that wasn’t. That is, until Grey gets engaged to Zadie’s prim and proper cousin Helen, and Zadie is dragged back into wedding festivity hell. The coup de grâce is Helen’s bachelorette party, thrown by her clique of prissy friends and certain to be a day of torture. But when the Pinor Grigio goes down and the sweater sets come off, things get out of control. Helen turns into a girl gone wild and manages to get herself into a sticky situation that just might sink the happy couple for good. And meanwhile, Zadie’s own love life takes a most unexpected turn. Karen Lutz throws one bachelorette party you won’t soon forget.
I discovered this book by reading a review online. It was on a blog (I can’t remember which one dangit) and I remember being amused by the review that when I went to the So Cal Blogger Meet Up a couple of months ago, this book was on my list of books to pick up should I come across it and I was so happy that I did because I enjoyed the hell out of this book.
It was such a fun and entertaining read. The main character, Zadie was one of those say what’s on her mind, do what she wants to do kind of heroines that is popular in the chick lit genre and I adored her. I thought she was such a fun person to get to know and everything she thought, everything she did had me cracking the heck up.
Zadie is an English teacher who was left at the altar after her soap opera fiance’ decided to just not come home from his bachelor party. He stayed in Vegas with his friends while Zadie waited at the altar for him to show up. She’s destroyed by it but gets through the worst of it by getting hammered every chance she can and hanging out with her best friend, Grey. She enjoys her time with Grey and it cracked me up that nothing was deemed TMI between Grey and Zadie. They were the most classic of best friends, there was nothing to gross to tell each other. The conversations these two had me laughing out loud more than once.
The cast of characters this book introduced me too kept me in fits of laughter all the way through. From Helen’s crazy alcoholic self to Grey’s ridiculously hideous sister and all of Helen’s friends, they all had me laughing the night away. Helen’s bachelorette party was one helluva ride and I’m so glad that I read it. It entertained the socks right off of me and I can’t recommend this book enough to anyone out there who is interested in reading a laugh out loud chick lit book with fantastic characters.
The one thing that I was a little disappointed in was that somehow Grey and Zadie didn’t end up together. The romance reader in me wanted Zadie to get her happily ever after with the guy that is so perfect for her…Grey. She was totally herself with him and I wanted them to somehow fall in love but it wasn’t to be since Grey was still in love with Helen at the end of the book and even though I liked who Zadie did end up with, there was a part of me that wanted her to be with Grey. I heart Grey.
What cracked me up was Zadie and her inappropriate crush on her student, Trevor. I’m telling you, this book is a hoot and you all should definitely read this if you’re in the mood for some fun. This book certainly delivers the fun.
Grade: 4 out of 5
This book is available from St. Martin’s Press. You can buy it here.
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