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The blurb:
One bride, two choices. What if...
Do You Take This Man? The brand new
novel by the bestselling author of The School Run.
Katie is getting married to Alec
... or is she?
Have you ever wondered ‘what if …’
you had made a different decision in life? Would another choice have taken you
down a totally different path? Would life have been better or worse? Would you
have ended up with someone different?
In Do You Take This Man? we follow
Katie’s two lives and find out what happens to her if she says ‘I do’ and what
happens if she stands up her groom.
In many ways, Katie’s two separate
realities couldn’t be further apart. But we also see how there are some people
and situations you can’t avoid, and that perhaps some things are meant to
happen whatever choices you make in life.
In the tradition of the classic
film Sliding Doors, Do You Take This Man? will keep you gripped and guessing to
the end!
My Opinion:
*Book provided by the a publisher in
exchange for an honest review*
This book sounded great, like my kind of thing!
Unfortunately I turned out to be disappointing, let me explain why.
The story follows Katie, who is unsure whether to
marry Alec or not. When it comes to the wedding day the story splits into two
parts. Katie marrying him and Cat (Katie changing her name) running away. I
think that’s a really great idea, so the reader gets both sides, what happened
in her life marrying Alec or the other version with her starting a life without
Alec. I enjoyed it in the beginning, but the more the story continued the more
got added and it was too much in my opinion. The characters were the same, with
her meeting them at different stages of her life. It got a bit confusing and it
kind of stopped the flow. It also moved forward really fast, with getting
pregnant, having more children, them growing up etc.
That felt a little unnatural to me.
There were a lot of characters involved, a lot of them
not properly lined out. Katie and Cat were described in a good way, but I
couldn’t relate to either of them, which made it hard to understand her and her
decisions. I couldn’t understand some of her actions.
There was a lot of drama included in this story, which
I usually like a lot, but yet again it was kind of too much. A fire here, an
accident there… It just didn’t make sense for me.
One thing I liked, was that it kept me guessing until
the end. It could have turned out in different ways and that kept me I guess.
This book was definitely not for me, for several
reasons and I can’t give more than 2 stars, unfortunately.
Rating:
My possible cast:
Katie: Kelly Reilly
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