Book Review - The Wedding Season by Katy Birchall - #HolidayReading Summer 2022

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Title: The Wedding Season

Author: Katy Birchall

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Publication Date: 3rd May 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

Freya Scott is getting married. Her wedding to Matthew, her long-term boyfriend, is the first of eight in her calendar this year, and as someone who prides herself on being meticulously organised, Freya is intent on making it the perfect day to remember.

But when Matthew calls things off hours before they walk down the aisle, Freya's entire life plan goes up in smoke. Humiliated and heartbroken, the last thing she wants is to attend a summer of other peoples' nuptials on her own.

Fortunately, her friends have an idea: together they devise a series of outrageous challenges for Freya to complete at each event, designed to distract her from Matthew and what might have been.

From getting stuck in an old church bathroom and needing to be rescued by the vicar to making out with a barman at a French chateau, Freya realises that despite herself, she might just be having fun.

By the time the final wedding arrives, she's not the same woman she was at the start of the season. And maybe her own love story isn't over just yet . . .

Once again Katy Birchall has written a hilarious story, and she is fast becoming an author to keep an eye out for, for me. 

I loved Ruby and Leo's strategy for getting Freya through the busy wedding season of the summer, full of hen nights and weddings, after only just being jilted the day before her own wedding in a broom cupboard.  She is devastated of course but also determined not to let it affect her support of her friend's special days.

So she is set a challenge for each wedding to keep her mind off the break up, from the relatively straight forward, being the last one standing, to the potentially tricky, run down a hotel corridor naked, and a whole variety in between. 

There is so much wit in this book it's fabulous, and there are some great storylines, including Freya's relationship with her mother which is rather rocky to start with. There is also a very memorable bit that had me laughing out loud in the first chapter, to do with Freya's brother's wedding gift to the "happy" couple. 

It's just a pure pleasure to read it, and I was thoroughly entertained with every page that I read. 

Thank you to Hodder & Stoughton and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.