The Christmas Wedding (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Christmas Wedding The biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces that she's getting married, she may finally be able to bring them home for the holidays.
Full description- Publisher: CENTURY
- Published: 24 November 2011
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781846059582 ISBN 10: 1846059585
- Sales rank: 135,961
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a very light read
The Christmas Wedding is a Christmas-themed romance co-authored by James Patterson and Richard Dilallo. The basic story is that fifty-year-old Gaby Summerhill is getting married at Christmas, but isn't telling her family (or even any of the three men who proposed to her) who the groom will be until the wedding day. Since Peter Summerhill died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart and she's hoping that her Christmas wedding will draw them back together. Each of her four children, and their families, are facing their challenges, and these are sketched in as background to the wedding/Christmas preparations. There's not much of a plot. Except for the unbelievably nasty alcoholic, pot-smoking, irresponsible Hank, all the characters are unrealistically Nice, even teenaged pot-smoking, part-time delinquent Gus. And, once again, the format is Patterson's trademark ridiculously short chapters: 64 chapters which means there are 64 empty half pages at the beginning of each chapter and a total of 31 empty pages at the end of the chapters, all up, 63 pages of empty space out of 266 pages. Doubling the chapter length would result in a more realistic 235 pages. I can't work out the purpose of this. Is it to make the reader think they have more of a story than they really do? To make it seem like the story is moving faster?(good in an action novel, but hardly necessary in a light romance). A very light read. by Marianne Vincent

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