Book Review: A Wedding in Truhart

Book: A Wedding in Truhart (Truhart book #1) by Cynthia Tennent

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Rating: 2 1/2 stars (Did Not Finish)

Review:

I'm sure this may be a lovely book but for the moment it's just not holding my attention. It's a standard chick lit with the main character Annie a bit of a mess along with her life. Her younger sister Charlotte is getting married, so along with her mother and aunt the trio travel to Atlanta from Truhart, Michigan to help celebrate the engagement.

When they showed up for the party it was an elegant event held at a luxury hotel which unfortunately, Annie, her mom Virginia and aunt Adelaide "Addie" were not exactly dressed up enough for. There was another surprise in store for Annie, her old friend and her older brother Ian's best friend Nick Conrad, who also happen to be her old childhood crush was there. Nick will be the Best Man in the wedding and she Maid of Honor. It's been years since she's seen Nick yet she's still as infatuated as ever with him. Despite his rudeness and his strong desire to really have nothing to do with her, she can't help putting him up on a pedestal or comparing him to how he used to be. Well, that's the thing, she really doesn't know who he is, now if ever, since she's always looked up to him as her prince or knight in shinning armor. But a car trip back to Michigan gave them a chance to reconnect along with a possible spark of romance.

Charlotte's upcoming wedding to Henry Lowell seems to have her trying too hard to impress her future in-laws and also being embarrassed of her loving if not rambunctious family. Horrible weather makes it impossible for the wedding to be in Atlanta and it will now be moved to Truhart held at the family inn.  Although the family's inn is struggling at the moment, Annie and her family have been working hard to keep it from going under.

The story was okay if not a little predictable but it was the characters that I couldn't connect with, each character seems to fit a certain archetype from the rich snobs to the small town eccentrics almost to the point that they seem one dimensional. As I reading this I could help wonder if Nick and Annie were somehow modeled after Mark Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice from the misunderstandings to the rudeness.

I don't know, maybe I'll read this again some other time but for now I'm going to shelve it.