Review of The Wedding Toaster
Posted: 02 Nov 2021, 11:48
[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "The Wedding Toaster" by Emily Rotondi.]
Twenty-eight-year-old Maggie McDonald never attends weddings. They remind her too much of her own wedding day, when restlessness and fear made her walk out on her fiancé, leaving him at the altar and shattering his heart.
Three years later, a strange turn of events at Maggie’s best friend’s wedding forces Maggie to give the wedding toast, which goes surprisingly well. Afterward, another guest approaches her and asks her to give the toast at his upcoming wedding. She objects at first, but he is willing to pay handsomely, so she reluctantly agrees. At his wedding, she is booked for another, and then another.
And so “the wedding toaster” is born. More and more couples book Maggie’s services, and before she knows it, requests are coming in so fast that she can barely keep up. But everything changes when she is booked to toast the wedding of a couple that turns out to be her ex-fiancé and his new bride-to-be. Now face to face with the man she abandoned, Maggie is suddenly confronted by feelings for him that haven’t waned despite their years apart, just in time to toast him as he marries someone else. How can she right the wrongs from her past? Is there any way she can hold onto the only man who has ever had her heart?
The Wedding Toaster, written by Emily Rotondi, is a light romance novel about a young woman with a hardened, jaded heart who learns to look at love in new ways. I don’t often read romance novels, but I was drawn to this one by Maggie’s cynical wit and by the amusing circumstances that shaped her career. I loved following Maggie’s adventures and particularly enjoyed the comedic situations in which she often found herself. The ending was abundantly satisfying and tied the whole story together beautifully, for which I commend the author.
With a conversational writing style and fewer than 200 pages, the book is a quick, easy read. Despite this, it is a book best left to adult or older teenage readers because it contains many instances of profanity and several blunt discussions of sex. Although the book centers on weddings, only the secular portions such as flowers, dancing, and the exchanging of rings are mentioned in the book, so readers of all religions can enjoy the story equally. As you might expect, there is no violent content anywhere in the book.
I was saddened to see a moderate number of grammatical errors in the text, forcing the score down by one star. I also noticed the narrative tense shifting from the present to the past and back again for no apparent reason, sometimes multiple times within a paragraph. All these issues could be corrected by the ministrations of a professional editor.
The Wedding Toaster earns a score of 3 out of 4 for its lighthearted portrayal of the blossoming of a young woman who had almost given up on love. It loses one star for the errors in the text. It would most appeal to lovers of romantic comedy looking for a quick, uplifting read.
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The Wedding Toaster
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Twenty-eight-year-old Maggie McDonald never attends weddings. They remind her too much of her own wedding day, when restlessness and fear made her walk out on her fiancé, leaving him at the altar and shattering his heart.
Three years later, a strange turn of events at Maggie’s best friend’s wedding forces Maggie to give the wedding toast, which goes surprisingly well. Afterward, another guest approaches her and asks her to give the toast at his upcoming wedding. She objects at first, but he is willing to pay handsomely, so she reluctantly agrees. At his wedding, she is booked for another, and then another.
And so “the wedding toaster” is born. More and more couples book Maggie’s services, and before she knows it, requests are coming in so fast that she can barely keep up. But everything changes when she is booked to toast the wedding of a couple that turns out to be her ex-fiancé and his new bride-to-be. Now face to face with the man she abandoned, Maggie is suddenly confronted by feelings for him that haven’t waned despite their years apart, just in time to toast him as he marries someone else. How can she right the wrongs from her past? Is there any way she can hold onto the only man who has ever had her heart?
The Wedding Toaster, written by Emily Rotondi, is a light romance novel about a young woman with a hardened, jaded heart who learns to look at love in new ways. I don’t often read romance novels, but I was drawn to this one by Maggie’s cynical wit and by the amusing circumstances that shaped her career. I loved following Maggie’s adventures and particularly enjoyed the comedic situations in which she often found herself. The ending was abundantly satisfying and tied the whole story together beautifully, for which I commend the author.
With a conversational writing style and fewer than 200 pages, the book is a quick, easy read. Despite this, it is a book best left to adult or older teenage readers because it contains many instances of profanity and several blunt discussions of sex. Although the book centers on weddings, only the secular portions such as flowers, dancing, and the exchanging of rings are mentioned in the book, so readers of all religions can enjoy the story equally. As you might expect, there is no violent content anywhere in the book.
I was saddened to see a moderate number of grammatical errors in the text, forcing the score down by one star. I also noticed the narrative tense shifting from the present to the past and back again for no apparent reason, sometimes multiple times within a paragraph. All these issues could be corrected by the ministrations of a professional editor.
The Wedding Toaster earns a score of 3 out of 4 for its lighthearted portrayal of the blossoming of a young woman who had almost given up on love. It loses one star for the errors in the text. It would most appeal to lovers of romantic comedy looking for a quick, uplifting read.
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The Wedding Toaster
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
