What Goodreads Says: 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.
What I Say: I have never smiled as guiltily as I have when I was reading this book. Zadie reminded me of myself after a few breakups, though thankfully I was never left at the altar. (Thanks for being there, sweetie!) I can remember times when I swore off men for a period of time, thinking I'd never want to deal with another man ever again in my life. When she walked into the party, I felt like I was right there, walking into a very awkward "meet the parents" situation. Where nobody really knows what to say, what to do, or how to act. I've been in my fair share of those situations. Being the one that isn't really a 'girl' in my circle of friends most of the time, when Zadie was put in this montage of girls, I really felt for her. There was no way I would have been able to deal with all these girls! Not when some were very uppity, hoitey-toiety, and her cousin who has that "I'm holier-than-thou but you can't prove that I think that about myself" personality. I really, really hate those girls.
Being that some of my best friends growing up were guys, I could put myself right there in Zadie's shoes. I don't think I could do yoga with those women. I don't think I could be a part of anything that they had planned for that party. I could see myself, as she tried to, finding ways to get out of having to go.
"coughcoughI'msickcoughcough"
No ... I would never do that ... never. Of course not.
The one thing that TRULY bothered me about this book is that she SLEPT WITH HER STUDENT! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! I have been a teacher. Hell, I teach Sunday School, so I guess technically I still am a teacher. I could never.ever.ever imagine sleeping with one of my students. I don't care that he was 19 (though for more than half the book she thought he was 18 - legal, but barely). Squick. Just squick.
Rating - 4.5 stars.
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