Review: Just One of the Groomsmen

Just One of the Groomsmen by Cindi Madsen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

"Just One of the Groomsmen" was overall a very cute book with likeable characters. I was slightly annoyed by the characters' accents, however; sometimes they had them, but sometimes they didn't, even within the same sentence or paragraph. This is especially true of Addie's Nonna Lucia with her Italian accent, but some of the characters' Southern accents seemed to be sporadic as well. (Why would they drop the "g" at the end of one word but not at the end of the one RIGHT AFTER IT?) To be fair, I read an ARC of this book, so it is entirely possible that this is an issue that will be fixed in the final edition of the book, but Nonna Lucia's speech was especially frustrating to me. It just didn't make sense to me that she could speak perfect English most of the time, then all of a sudden seem to have a strong accent and drop/misuse verbs, etc.

I also found myself growing somewhat annoyed towards the end of the book because it seemed like most of the problems between Addie and Tucker could have been solved with an honest conversation. I like a grand gesture as much as anybody, but things never should have needed to go that far. I thought that both of their insecurities were perfectly understandable, and I can also understand that they were both afraid of what might happen if their relationship changed, but they were lifelong best friends. They really should not have had as much trouble communicating with each other as they did.

Still, I would read more books by this author, especially if there are future books planned for the remaining single guys in this group of friends (Ford and Easton). The interactions between the core group of friends were a lot of fun and I wouldn't mind seeing more of them.

*ARC provided by the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.

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