I read this entire book on Saturday. It's pretty short, only like 200 pages and fairly small sized.
This book is about a girl named Willafred (Willa for short) Havisham who is the wedding planner's daughter(I bet you didn't guess that). This is all the background info you get in like the first 3 chapters: Her dad was a poet and her mom fell in love head over sandals in love with him while her dad fell head over sneakers in love with her(that's what she says in the book, although not a direct quote). Everyone loved her dad. He worked across the pond and while he worked Willa's mom was planning the perfect wedding. Anyways, they got married and everything was perfect and then the next day her dad had gone to get a hot air balloon to fly in with her mom to their honeymoon. The hot air balloon didn't work and Willa's dad ended up going down in the harbor. But her mom still had Willa. Skipping to present day, Stella(her mom) is always afraid to fall in love and get hurt like she was when her husband died so Willa and Stella don't stay in the same place for over two years. They finally move back to Cape Cod where her grandmother lives and she has a whole bunch of friends and this is the story of her life there.
I really, really, really enjoyed this book. I had been looking through my bookshelf of books that my sister grew out of and lent me so I asked her which one she recommended and this was the one. At first I thought it was boring but once I got like 3 chapters in I was hooked and read it all the way through. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a short pleasurable read. That's what I was looking for when I read it and it was exactly what I got. I read it in the sunshine, I would recommend that too.
I would rate this book a 9/10 because it was really good and I liked it although it seemed like something I had read before and it was really short. Short and sweet, I guess.
-Flounder
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