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For the Bride
Audiobook available · 9 hr 49 min
Alice joins the wedding party for Gin, her ex-girlfriend and friend, while privately struggling with grief. Helping the celebration succeed means working with Renee, a maid of honor who is openly hostile to her. The wedding gives them tasks to share and little room to avoid each other.
From the publisher’s blurb
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What makes it funny?
At the engagement party, Alice gives Gin her pantsuit and takes the bride’s wine-stained dress. It does not fit. Alice’s dry assessment of how conspicuous she looks supplies the joke as she tries to do someone a favor under uncomfortable conditions.
The comedy at work
Alice narrates the gap between expected wedding-party enthusiasm and what attending actually requires of her. Her restrained jokes let awkward obligations remain funny even when she has painful reasons for finding the celebration difficult.
Try this if…
The romance offers enemies becoming lovers through the practical demands of a DIY wedding. Readers who want friendship repair and emotional complications alongside the banter will also find sobriety and bereavement central to Alice’s life.
Good to know
Alice is sober and grieving her father’s alcohol-related death. The opening sample includes swearing and memories of blackout drinking.
A few distinguishing details
- An ex-girlfriend’s wedding forces two hostile women together
- A disastrous engagement-party outfit exchange
- Dry wedding observations from a sober, grieving narrator
More funny contemporary romance
Sources & further reading
- Apple Books explicitly labels For the Bride: A Novel by Becca Grischow Unabridged, narrates in English by Kristen DiMercurio, and gives runtime 09:49.
Book information
- Penguin Random House lists For the Bride by Becca Grischow as a 336-page paperback, ISBN 9780143138426, and lists 9 Hours 50 Minutes for its audiobook download.
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