I’ve been thinking about this book basically since I finished it twelve hours ago, and not necessarily in a good way.

The crux of it is that I’m disappointed. For a book that’s such a mockery of weddings and people who obsess over them, I wanted this to be … more fun. Instead, it tries to be a pretty serious thriller for most of the book, despite the ridiculous setting and despite the fact that almost all the characters are extremist portrayals of stereotypes. That scene where Robin and Ellie are trying to kill each other but their improvised weapons keep breaking is honestly the best damn scene in this book, and I just wanted more of that energy. (This is not really a spoiler. Literally the first sentence is something about how Robin and Ellie are going to literally kill each other in the book. And then the author does it again at chapter 13, which is such a campy set up for a not-campy book.)

I also really enjoyed that line Robin has about Mindy, where Mindy’s politics are a box of chocolates - you never know what you’re going to get. Which is just … what a way to twist such a classic quote.

The ending was very anticlimactic - for the serious thriller this book wants to be, anyway. I also think the author did a good enough job of setting up the world and Ellie and all that I don’t feel like we really needed Ellie to explain herself - certainly not for as many pages as she did. That whole thing could have been much shorter, or scrapped entirely.