Review: Meet me at the Wedding

Meet me at the Wedding by Georgia Toffolo
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Two and a half stars.

Lily grew up in a small town in Cornwall and it was where she returned to lick her wounds after her fiance stole her savings and ran away. There she's lived peacefully, started her own restaurant and helped the owner of the nearby Hawkesbury Estate to build his hotel and vineyard into the successful business it is today. However, when he dies unexpectedly his estranged son Henry returns determined to sell the estate. Henry and his father fell out and hadn't spoken for a decade, Cornwall is nothing but regret and bad memories for him now, he can't bear to have anyone near him, judging him and talking behind his back so he's let all the staff go and cancelled all the hotel bookings, including the wedding of Lily's friend Victoria, a wedding that Lily has been planning for months.

Ten years ago Lily and her three friends were involved in a terrible car crash, involving Henry and another classmate called Claudia, on their way to the end of school dance. Each of them bear scars from that night whether physical or mental. Lily's three friends have found love, despite the events of that night, but Lily has remained single since her fiance's betrayal.

At first Lily intends to try to sweet talk Henry into allowing Victoria's wedding to continue, especially since his father had fully intended it to take place on the Estate, but when they meet she is so incensed that she lays into him and calls him names. They part on bad terms, until Henry realises he needs Lily to host an Estate tour and wine tasting for a potential buyer and his wife. In return, Henry has to promise to host Victoria's wedding.

As Henry and Lily work towards Victoria's wedding their attraction grows stronger, but how can they be a couple when he can't bear to stay and she can't imagine leaving?

This is the fourth book in a series and ho boy does it show, maybe if I had read the other books I would have enjoyed this more but there felt like an awful lot of backstory about the three other women and their HEAs which frankly meant nothing to me. This just felt long and sloooow, Henry is attracted to Lily but he doesn't feel he deserves a woman like her, Lily can't let herself care for yet another man who could leave her. There's a disaster with the wedding, they almost kiss, Henry is attracted to Lily but he doesn't feel he deserves a woman like her, Lily can't let herself care for yet another man who could leave her. Rinse and repeat.

Sorry, this just wasn't for me, way too many superfluous characters it was like Avengers Endgame all over again!

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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