U is for Unwedding

I’m doing folklore and book review posts to reach and please a larger audience. Previous years have shown select interest in both and to minimise blogging throughout the year, I’m focusing my efforts on April.

Focusing on an A to Z of my TBR (to be read) list, each letter will have books starting with that letter on my list, a book I’ve read and reviewed (with the review!) and one of my books matching the letter with a link about more info about the book.

If you’d rather check out my folklore post for today, go here.

My TBR

About the Book I’ve Read

The Unwedding by Ally Condie

Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the world. She and her husband, Luke, were supposed to spend their twentieth wedding anniversary together at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, California. Where better to celebrate a marriage, a family, and a life together than at one of the most stunning places on earth? But now she’s traveling solo.

To add insult to injury, there’s a wedding at Broken Point scheduled during her stay. Ellery remembers how it felt to be on the cusp of everything new and wonderful, with a loved and certain future glimmering just ahead. Now she isn’t certain of anything except her love for her kids and a growing realization that this place, although beautiful, is unsettling.

Check it out on Goodreads.

My Review

Beautiful scenery. I liked the use of nature and art to set this story in a place where few could go, yet dream of going.

The italics were unnecessary and messed with my head.

Themes of life and death, grief and rebirth, love and hate, anger and blind loyalty, were all explored not just in what was happening to the people, but to the landscape itself.

I liked Ravi and Nina, not just because they took Ellery in, but also because they were so real. I don’t think we ever find out what Ravi does for a living…? I liked that all the characters were fleshed out. Except for the frat guys who could’ve just been one faceless mass of entitlement.

Ellery, working through the grief at the end of her marriage, isn’t a reliable narrator, but she does notice interesting things. I do wonder why she doesn’t like ballpoint pens…? As the story progresses we learn more about her past, and I honestly don’t like her husband. I wonder when he changed from the man she fell in love with into one of the frat boys?

The reason they have to stay, besides the storm, is such a true tragedy. Sure, some things continue on as life does, but it’s a sad moment when the person who dies is genuinely good and got killed for a stupid reason.

I think what I liked most about this book is how much it mirrors real life; how it shows that every person has a shadow self they’re either hiding from others or trying to outrun.

A good book about friendship, discovering your true self, a gorgeous nature setting – and murders that need to be solved.

My Book

Unseen (Faery Tales #2)

I hope you enjoyed this. For more books I’ve read and reviewed, check out either my Pinterest board about reviews or my Goodreads profile. Alternatively, you can check out my reviews on BookBub. Have you read any of the books? Loved or hated any of them?

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*FYI, my reviews are my honest opinion and if something bothers me, I tell it straight. How else will anything change? My opinions are based on being a voracious reader and book buyer, not an attack on the author.*