Sister of the Bride by Lauren MorrillRating: ✩✩✩✩✩
This contemporary hits all the right spots for fans of the genre. Featuring a classic "friends to lovers" trope the narrative is part family drama, part coming of age story and part standard romance. The spice is spicy, but not just for the sake of being racy. The relationship develops in a believable way and the potential conflict is handled by, brace yourselves, the couple actually talking.
I will warn that Pippin is a bit of heavy furniture at the start. For someone who claims to love family above all else, she had no support to offer her sister upon the engagement announcement, had no clue whatsoever what was happening in the life of her so-called best friend, and somehow managed to completely miss her mother making obvious plans to change the family business. It can be tiresome. However, Morrill does a great job of not only making this part of genuine character development, but in illustrating how this family dynamic is a side-effect of being the one who keeps it all together. Is Pippin inflexible, or is she just the one who has no room for error because everything rests on her? This one will shoot straight to the GenX/Millenial heart.
While the resolutions are all a little too convenient, the HEA works and this was, overall, a fun read in classic contemporary style.
Published on 12 September 2023 by Yellow House Media
Book #41 of 2023
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