The Wedding
Danielle Steel, 2000
★ 3.91 from 11.8k ratings on Goodreads
A Hollywood lawyer with a full life and a boyfriend who is still married watches her parents' glittering awards season — and starts to wonder what she is waiting for. A warm, family-centered romance with a lyrical streak, moving at a gentle pace as longing and ambition hum under the Hollywood surface.
Feels like longing, wonder and tenderness. About family, love and ambition.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you enjoy warm family drama, awards-season glamour, and romance mixed with a look at Hollywood careers. Be aware that many readers found it repetitive, predictable, and overlong, with the central romance moving too quickly.
Why read it
It gives you a warm, emotional look at family ties and the question of what you are waiting for, in Steel's familiar style.
A page from the book
What affection sounds like from an eleven-year-old who is slightly embarrassed.
In fact, Nicole’s voice was the next one on Allegra’s answering machine, telling her that she hoped that Allegra was coming to San Francisco with her dad that weekend. She said she missed her, and that she hoped everything was okay, and she hoped they’d have time to go skating. “And oh ... that’s right ... I love the jacket you sent me for Christmas ... I was going to write a note, but I forgot, and Mom said...” There was an embarrassed silence as the eleven-year-old voice tried to regain her composure. “I’ll give you the letter this weekend. Bye ... I love you.... Oh ... this is Nicky. Bye.” She hung up, and Allegra was still smiling, when she heard Brandon’s message that he was working late, and was still at the office when he called her. His message was the last one. What readers say
Reactions split: some found the family drama warm, emotional, and engaging, with twists and a satisfying happy ending; many others found it repetitive, predictable, overlong, and tedious, with the romance moving too quickly.
Danielle Steel.Steel writes her novels on a manual Olympia typewriter rather than a computer, and has published more than 180 books — several of them while raising nine children.
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Questions readers ask
- Is The Wedding for me?
- You may like it if you enjoy warm family drama, awards-season glamour, and romance mixed with a look at Hollywood careers. Be aware that many readers found it repetitive, predictable, and overlong, with the central romance moving too quickly.
- What is The Wedding like?
- A warm, family-centered romance with a lyrical streak, moving at a gentle pace as longing and ambition hum under the Hollywood surface. Feels like longing, wonder and tenderness. About family, love and ambition.
- What should I read after The Wedding?
- If you liked The Wedding, try Intermezzo (Sally Rooney), Wild Side (Elsie Silver) and It Ends with Us (Colleen Hoover).
A taste of the feed
Wanting to disappear completely, and to be loved completely, in the same breath.
Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.
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The grief that has no funeral, no memories, no name.
Grieving something that never was and never will be is a special sort of hell.
Wild Side · Elsie Silver
What you say when a perfect week is almost over.
Let’s pretend that time doesn’t exist. Let’s pretend that this week isn’t ending. Let’s pretend that we will always be us—happy, sunburnt, and tangled up together.
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