Blog Tour: Wedding Belles: A Novel in Four Parts

Wedding Belles: A Novel in Four Parts

by Melanie Jacobson, Jenny Proctor, Becca Wilhite, and Brittany Larsen

Book Description:

Harper is an event planner with dreams of taking over the Charleston wedding scene . . . until she meets the biggest Bridezilla of her career. She needs the job, but the only way to keep it is to hire a temperamental chef with big dreams of his own.

Janie is a classical cellist booked to play a posh Charleston wedding. She’s excited to have the lucrative gig until the groom’s brother, Emmett, shows up and asks her to help him play a song he wrote for the happy couple. The only trouble? Emmett is her unrequited high school crush.

Lily has been Dahlia's best friend, partner-in-crime, and now her maid of honor . . . until suddenly there's no wedding, and she's left to clean up Dahlia's biggest mess of all. She's been friends with Deacon, the jilted groom, for just as long, and it's up to her rescue him after Hurricane Dahlia blows through.

Sutton is a photographer running from her past. Only the pleas from her best friend to photograph her wedding could bring Sutton back to Charleston. Her plan is to get in and get out before her ex knows she and their daughter are in town. At least it’s the plan until she meets Max, who turns out to be the safe place she didn’t know she was looking for.

Can each of these couples trust their growing chemistry, or are they on the verge of new disasters?

Andrea's Review:

I was very excited when I heard about these talented authors joining together for Wedding Belles. I like how each author took a side (if you will) of this wedding and let the reader experience it from different angles. Each story focuses on different characters, but you still get to read a little bit about the characters from the last book (albeit at a distance).

It was a fun and entertaining collaboration. Some of the relationships are new and fast, while others had a basis of friendship (or a crush from a distance).

I enjoyed this compilation and thought each novella was well-written (with the exception of a few swearwords in two of the stories-I'm never a fan of that).

I will definitely read more from all of these authors.

Rorie's Review:

I'm generally not a huge fan of novellas, simply because they're just not long enough to really get to know the characters. I love all of these authors though, so I was excited to read their stories.

I enjoyed how each story intertwined with the others. This is a fun way to get to know some of the supporting characters from a book. I think my favorite of the four stories was Lily and Deacon's. They clicked with me the best, and I found myself really engrossed in what was happening.

I wasn't a huge fan of the insta-romance that seemed to be a theme in these stories, but I guess if you've only got a limited amount of pages, things have to happen fast. 

All in all, this is a fun, quick read. There are a few minor swearwords, which the stories would have been better without, but I would recommend this book - and each of the authors' other books as well.

Tarah's Review:

I've been really into Novellas lately, so it was fun for me to read Wedding Belles.  here is just something to be said for being able to sit and finish a book quickly when I have a million other things going on. It's super satisfying....provided it was well written and didn't feel rushed. Luckily Wedding Belles was just such a book.

I did struggle with the swearing and ... descriptive (?) kissing/feelings in Harper's story. Nothing was over the line, but I wasn't expecting it. Especially from that author. There was swearing in Sutton's story, but for some reason that didn't bother me as much as the first story.

Lily and Deacon's story was my favorite, with Janie and Emmett a close second. I enjoyed the flow of the stories and I really enjoyed how much all the stories intertwined with each other. I like getting all the background stories, so this was right up my alley.

I will be reading this one again. 

Title: Wedding Belles: A Novel in Four Parts
Authors: Melanie Jacobson, Jenny Proctor, Becca Wilhite, and Brittany Larsen
Publisher: Four Petal Press
Published: October 2018
ASIN: B07HS2TSKD
Source: We received an e-copy from the author in exchange for an honest review.
 
Purchase: Amazon