Book Review: The Wedding Party, part 1
The Wedding Party by Tammy Cohen 👰🤵♂💒💍🔔🔪🔪🔪, part 1
From the author of ‘ The War Of The Wives’, ‘ The Broken’, ‘ When She Was Bad’ and ‘ They All Fall Down’. This 2021 novel tells of bridezilla Lucy. So many characters. The wedding is a family melodrama that causes a magnification of Lucy’s malevolence. Lucy sees her wedding as a world shaping event. Lucy is having a destination wedding in Greece that her mummy and daddy are paying for. Malevolent nonsense that will end on a tragic note.
Lucy’s junkie sister is a troubled figure. Various characters feel anguish and fear. Lucy expects unwitting acquiesce to her princess fantasy. The junkie sister brought an ideologically suspect man as her plus one. Lucy is malicious and looking for a fight and if she can’t find one she will make one. Lucy has an egotistical and unpleasant personality. The wedding is a lurid psychodrama that will have terrible, far reaching consequences. It will come to a dark culmination with a body.
Various characters are unstable deadbeats. Lucy is wilfully oblivious to her gracelessness. Lucy’s mummy Hazel feels anger and despair over stuff. Lucy is particularly frightful and self deceived. Who goes to their doom? The groom has the personality of a door. There is sin and ignominy and studied carnality and rage and sorrow. There is extravagant spending. The cost to acquire and maintain Lucy’s relationship. Lucy wants unquestioning fealty. Who is headed for a very sad future?
People are on very dark paths. Lucy has palpable insistence. Alarm and a sense of doom is increasing. Lucy lacks fortitude, all she has is bourgeois triumphalism. There are reveals and no positive consequences. Lucy has an unwavering seriousness of purpose. Hazel’s age cost her a career and now she seethes in her career grave. Lucy is pernicious, utterly appalling and egregious. Her behaviour does not endear her to the personality free groom.
There is little civility or respect. Nothing Lucy does is justifiable. Lucy’s junkie sister is hateful and insulting and flirts with a married man. People are constantly engaged in stupid spats. There is a catalogue of disruptive and unpleasant behaviour. There are nefarious tactics. Lucy has fundamental dishonesty and arrogant stupidity. Is the groom too pleasant to be trusted?
Best Lines:
“How long did I spend sweating over those canapés,”
“Back terrace smelled of drains,”
“Part of a past he’d turned his back on.”
“Framed it as bohemian and fun.”
“Did she really just talk to her toddler in French?”
“She said you went pee pee in the laundry basket.”
“Chosen this awful, shallow woman to be her replacement?”
“Financial reckoning.”
“It’s urine-infection pink and I’m not wearing it.”