Review: The Best Man

The Best Man by A.S. Kelly
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

DNF at 45%.

When you can't stand either of the main characters and nothing seems to be happening then you know it's time to bail!

This kind of starts off well. we are at a wedding and Alex Brennan is nervous, does he have the bottle to do 'it'? He must, but will everyone hate him? What will she say? He can't bear it? If that is irritating you then I suggest you avoid this book. Alex is wetter than a wet weekend in the Partry Mountains (which google tells me is the wettest part of Galway), he is the sort of person who walks back and forth wringing their hands and never doing anything. In fact the book is written just like the blurb for this book always talking round and round in circles, never coming to a point, always harking back to some vague thing in the past where 'something' happened.

Frankly, I got nearly halfway through the book and I was bored rigid. I have 40 other books on my Kindle to read and I can't waste my time with drippy Alex. Also, this is supposedly set in Ireland, but other than the obligatory pints of Guinness (which hello can be drunk all over the world) and the fact that Alex and Ellie work in a whisky distillery (also all over the world) and the odd Gaelic word it could be set anywhere. In fact I was shocked to discover it was set in Ireland as I had imagined it was set in the US. Now I hate books that are dripping in brogue for the sake of it which is why I rarely read any books featuring a man in a kilt on the cover, but to have absolutely no Irish language markers at all? No mam? No sure or grand? No feck?

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

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