Wedding Night

A Novel

By: Sophie Kinsella

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle, Fiona Hardingham, Mark Bramhall

Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Lottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose during lunch at one of London’s fanciest restaurants. But when his big question involves a trip abroad, not a trip down the aisle, she’s completely crushed. So when Ben, an old flame, calls her out of the blue and reminds Lottie of their pact to get married if they were both still single at 30, she jumps at the chance. No formal dates - just a quick march to the altar and a honeymoon on Ikonos, the sun-drenched Greek island where they first met years ago.

Their family and friends are horrified. Fliss, Lottie’s older sister, knows that Lottie can be impulsive - but surely this is her worst decision yet. And Ben’s colleague Lorcan fears that this hasty marriage will ruin his friend’s career. To keep Lottie and Ben from making a terrible mistake, Fliss concocts an elaborate scheme to sabotage their wedding night. As she and Lorcan jet off to Ikonos in pursuit, Lottie and Ben are in for a honeymoon to remember, for better...or worse.

©2013 Sophie Kinsella (P)2013 Random House Audio

Not my fav SK novel...

This one was a bit blah for Sophie Kinsella. LOVEEE her others.. but this one was predictable and didn't have a lot of substance.

Not my favorite

I really like Sophie Kinsella, but I didn't enjoy this book. I don't mean it wasn't well written, I mean I didn't enjoy the situations. I thought the divorce part was depressing, and all the proposals were desperate. The wedding night was a nightmare - I was listening to that part on the way home from work, and instead of feeling relaxed and entertained, I felt frazzled. The whole thing seemed unhappy all the way around. It was depressing to me, not funny. Spoiler alert: I didn't get the Richard thing - he never considered marriage until it was a contest - I would hate to think of anyone ending up with someone that was shocked that marriage was brought up after four years. Personal story: we were in our early 30s when we married, and our wedding night was in Hawaii. Our room was in an older hotel on Waikiki beach, with Diamond Head as the view. When my husband opened the door, we saw twin beds. He didn't even close the door. Without saying a word, he put down the travel bag, moved all the furniture around until the beds were together, then he picked the bag up and closed the door as if we had just walked into the room. Problem fixed in five minutes. I don't see how twin beds would slow anyone down, but that's just how we are.

very funny.

takes,a bit time to get into the British humor. but the story is great, would love to see this as a mini series

BEST PERFORMANCE EVER.

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this. I love Sophie Kinsella and the story was super sweet. The audio performance tops everything! I could listen to these readers all day! Brilliant!

A fun novel full of laughs

This novel was easy to listen to and I enjoyed all of the narrators. They had strong, clear voices and really put emotion into the voices. This book kept me laughing with all the silly mishaps.

Enjoyable

A fine predictable story. A little too unbelievable at times. It had its moments.

Somewhat Disappointing Showing for Shopoholic

What did you like best about Wedding Night? What did you like least?

I love Sophie Kinsella - fluffy but very funny protagonists. This story felt forced.

Would you recommend Wedding Night to your friends? Why or why not?

Not really - it was probably my least favorite by the author. That being said, it was listenable - is that a word?

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Yes

Could you see Wedding Night being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

A TV movie on Lifetime, maybe. Definitely NOT Isla Fisher, who starred in terrible Shopaholic movie.

Sweet story

Sometimes you just want to smack a certain character over the head for being so stupid (while laughing) but isn’t that just the way of Kinsella’s writing ;) Had a good laugh.

Characters that you wished could get killed off…

Don’t get me wrong…I love Sophie Kinsella’s books (as well as her books penned under her actual name - the Madeleine Wickham books). However, I’ve been re-listening to audiobooks I listened to years ago to help me watch less TV, and I came around to two Sophie Kinsella audiobooks in a row : I’ve Got Your Number and this one. Hearing them forced me to come to a realization…as good as Sophie Kinsella’s writing is, she can write the MOST insufferable characters in the world - particularly female leads.

Fliss isn’t too bad…as an older sibling with an 11 year gap in age who took on a pseudo-parental role with their sibling, I can somewhat understand her. However, Lottie and Ben are the most impulsive, unbelievably irresponsible, selfish and annoying characters in the world. The level to which they are contrarians (just for the sake of doing the opposite of what someone suggests or says, even if it makes no sense) is so infuriating that you genuinely wish that they could somehow be killed off in the story; and have the book end with just Fliss and Lorcan because they’re the only people with a modicum of relatability, likability and common sense. At least the things they do are well intentioned. It gets to the point that when Lottie is talking, just hearing her voice becomes grating.

While the premise of the book is really interesting, the characters make it almost painful to listen to. As much as I hate to say it, I’d skip this one and go for one of Sophie Kinsella’s other audiobooks.

just mediocre Kinsella, but charming nonetheless

As much as I found the plot disappointing and a bit on the slow side at times, I don't think Sophie Kinsella can write a bad book ... she's apparently quite a charming person and that does come through in spades in her writing. Narration quite good. Overall, worth an Audible credit.