emma's Reviews > The Wedding People

if i'm not supposed to judge books by their covers, why do they have such beautiful ones?

and i have to call this installment of picking reads based on visual aesthetic a success. what a damn good time!

there is no medicine quite like the subgenre of book club fiction in which everything starts out completely terribly and then is incontrovertibly solved within a few hundred pages. it's restorative, like a good haircut, or a well-toasted bagel. keeps ya going.

this is a great example of that especially, because it's funny. books are rarely funny. i'm a really big fan of them (and i have the serial killer-adjacent level of meticulous goodreads history to prove it) but even i have to admit it. not exactly the go-to location to laugh any harder than when you kind of puff air out of your nose.

but this was funny, and soul-healing, and (although predictable in its plot points and its half-twists) pretty unique.

bottom line: a pretty big win for judging by covers, i have to say.

(thanks to the publisher for the e-arc)