Book Review - The Weekend Before The Wedding by Tracy Bloom - #HolidayReading Mallorca

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Title: The Weekend Before The Wedding

Author: Tracy Bloom

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Date: 29th July 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

One weekend, one bride-to-be, what could possibly go wrong…

All Shelley wanted on her hen weekend was to enjoy three days of sun, sea and sangria. But instead of being surrounded by the A-team of her closest friends, she somehow ends up with a Golden Girls-meets-the-Spice Girls B-list that includes her mother, a rebellious teenager, and a best mate ‘on the verge’.

The squabbling starts at the airport, and on arrival in Spain, Shelley barely has time to unpack her suitcase before getting an unwanted text ̶ one that throws her wedding into doubt.

Shelley has got a BIG decision to make, but her unruly medley of nearest and dearest seem determined to confuse matters with their own problems.

Have they got what it takes to get her through the most important weekend of her life?

It's not often that a hen weekend occurs 20 years before the actual wedding but in Shelley's case that is how it turns out. 

We meet Shelley first in the present day, not long before her wedding ceremony is at long last due to start. 

From there we are treated to reminisces of Shelley's younger years, leading up to and including the hen weekend to Mallorca, which i think changed the course of everyone's lives. 

It's not the most regular bunch of hens, from an 18 year old "third cousin", to her aunty Nancy who she doesn't know that well, but how has agreed to host various family members for the weekend. 

It's not the regular groups you getting going to Palma or Magaluf, that's for sure. But that just adds to the hilarity of some of the images conjured up 

For me reading this by a pool in Mallorca, getting to the bit where the ladies are dressed as the Spice Girls, and then hearing "Spice Up Your Life" being played poolside, made the book even more immersive for me. 

This was funny, it was touching in places, it was life changing but above all this is one incredibly fun read that I adored. 

Thank you to HarperCollins and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.