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Chargement... Keep Calm and Carry a Big Drink (There's Cake in My Future)par Kim Gruenenfelder
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" In this delicious follow-up to There's Cake in My Future, Seema, Nic and Mel are back, adjusting to their new lives as a bride-to-be, a mother-to-be, and a recently single girl looking for love It's been about a year since Mel, Nic and Seema pulled their magical charms out of the cake at Nic's bridal shower and each of their happily-ever-afters seemingly came true. Now, Seema is about to marry Scott in an elaborate three-day affair that's stressing out everyone, including her Maid of Honor, Mel. Nic is glowingly pregnant, and Mel... well, Mel feels as if she accidentally veered off the rails of her life at some point and isn't sure how to get back on. On top of the possible threat of a layoff from her teaching job, she is single yet again, and has to find her own place now that Scott's moving in with her roommate, Seema. Nic thinks Mel just needs a little something to help her figure it all out. and believes a cake pull at Seema's bridal shower will be just the thing. Since she's poured so much attention into building a career, never making time for travel, Mel decides to ask for the passport charm. But once again, the cake proves to have a mind of its own, giving her yet another unrequested charm. Mel decides it's time to take matters into her own hands. A spur of the moment decision leads her to Paris and then Maui, where she finds herself on an adventure that she never could have imagined, experiencing the trials and tribulations of a life suddenly and perfectly unplanned. And she begins to learn that, however nonsensical it may seem, the cake is never wrong"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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We start this novel in medias res on Seema's wedding day and we have Mel then flash-backing to a week prior to the wedding and then the novel catches up so to speak to the present. I honestly don't think we should have started the novel on Seema's wedding day but maybe some place further along in Mel's future (trying not to get too spoilery here) especially since there were so many events that could have been used instead of this one. I do think Ms. Gruenenfelder may want to re-think doing this in her novels unless it really adds something to it by starting off mid-story and working back.
Other than that I have to say I really did love this novel. It was nice to see all of the 'girls' again and I adore the friendship between Seema, NIc, and Mel. It reminds me of my two best friends who always have my back as well. Also it was great to see Mel struggling with what she wanted to do with her life and realizing though it was scary she needed to make some changes. We get to follow Mel along to Paris and then to Hawaii which Ms. Gruenenfelder has been to or read enough about to make me feel as if I were in those places along with Mel. I also give kudos for the decision to have Mel be the main protagonist in this novel. I did like the prior novel and having an opportunity to be in all of the girls' heads but I realize that since both Nic and Seema had their happily ever afters it made more sense to have this one just be about Mel. Ms. Gruenenfelder often writes the most funny scenes I have ever read and she does so again here repeatedly.
I really hopes she revisits her main character Charlie from her novels "A Total Waste of Makeup" and "Misery Loves Cabernet" again some day since she showcased an excellent female friendship in that one as well.
I 100 percent recommend this novel! (