Bride without a Groom

by Amy Lynch

[Leah]

Oh GOD. This book was awful. When I first started reading it, I thought it was cute. But Rebecca is one of the most selfish characters I've ever met. She's clearly meant to be based on the beloved Rebecca Bloomwood, but they're so far apart it's unreal. The only thing they have in common is their first name. Rebecca was just so vapid, selfish, self-absorbed. Jesus Christ, she didn't even know what country her boyfriend was in, which wound me up no end. She barely showed up to work, coming up with excuse after excuse (ridiculous excuses as well, mind) and I just wanted to punch her in the face.

I kept persevering until I couldn't persevere any more. There's only so much whinging and whining you can put up with, until you want to tell someone to get a grip and Rebecca sorely needed to get a grip. She didn't live in the real world, in fact the real world was barely a speck on her horizon.

I don't actually know how anyone could like or warm to Rebecca. She was not redeemable in the slightest. Eventually I had to give up on this book. I don't mind a bridezilla at all, in fact it can be very entertaining, but Rebecca just didn't care enough about ANYBODY ELSE to get out of her own bubble of selfishness and that is what I hated. Rebecca was too calculating and too much of an idiot for me to ever warm to her. I'm just surprised it took me until halfway through to see that she would never change. Ugh.