This was an easy to read book that had a great story attached to it. Loved the characters in this one. Easy to read and defiantly enjoyable.

First of all, thank you for providing me this ARC.
I was kinda disappointed. The story didn’t stick to me. It was slow with weak tension.
It was fast paced and beautiful written. For someone whose English isn’t his native language, it was easy to read.

This is set over a weekend wedding do! It’s not the most exciting book I have read but it was an easy read and I did enjoy it. There are quite a few characters in the book, I find it easier to write there names and relationship down so the story line is easier to follow. A bit Agatha Christie/ Noel Coward. In my opinion it would make a good play. An enjoyable, easy read.

This book was an enjoyable read but it had many characters to keep track of. I found myself having to think hard about who the characters were and how they were connected. I did finish it but it would be a re-read for me.

I had high expectations for this book to have a really great twist but it just didn’t do it for me. There was nothing particularly wrong with the book but at the same time it left me feeling a little lacklustre. Maybe I need to go back to it in the new year and give it another go?

The setting is a country house hotel in Devon. The cast is mainly made up of the guests at a middle class wedding with a dodgy local planning officer thrown in the mix.
The author writes from the POV of several of the characters creating high drama and wit. The shifting sands of family relationships, the secrets revealed, and the awakening of loves old and new, all combine to form an engaging narrative.
This is a story which would work well on stage - perhaps in one of the great theatres on St Martin's Lane where Alan Ayckbourn and Noel Coward plays in a similar vein enjoyed long runs.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book, which was a pleasant distraction. The plot has a steady pace, attractive characters with a warmth between the extended families and school friends, and an acceptance of all personalities. An easy read, but not a real page turner... sorry.

Firstly I want to start by saying I did like the premise of this book and found the storyline to be clever. However I felt it was let down by the editing; it was so confusing to keep track of who is who in each chapter, and also I felt it would actually work a lot better as a script for a tv show than it does a book. Also at times I felt the details about the characters private lives were a bit too detailed and irrelevant to the story. For example what does it matter what Simon (the grooms friend) does in the car with his boyfriend on previous occasions? Or the ‘strenuous activities’ of another couple? When these incidences literally has nothing to do with the storyline! I am glad to have the opportunity to read the book but it’s not one for me.

A wedding is an event that requires meticulous planning at the best of times and this wedding even more so than most with the bride and groom (both lawyers) plotting to use the event to bring down a corrupt local councillor they have been investigating. There is enough humour and intrigue to keep the reader engaged but there is a large number of viewpoints and voices that could have been more tightly edited.

With thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the advance copy to review.

Devon-born London lawyer Kate Densham is to marry her colleague, Robert Harrington. Her father, a senior university professor, is involved in a substantial land deal in which the university is seeking to sell a large chunk of the land it owns to a developer. Kate and her fiancé are acting for the possible buyers of the land. They know that the organisation is involved in criminal activity and has strong ties to the chairman of the local planning committee, and believe they can take effective action against them 'from the inside’...

But don’t forget – as all of this is happening, there’s still the wedding to attend.

From Matthew Densham, the uncle of the bride, to Celia Harrington, the grandmother of the groom; Phyllis Drayton, friend of the bride’s parents, to Simon Roche, an ex-university friend of the groom; this is a wedding that will impact the lives of all that are involved.

The author’s writing style lends itself perfectly to the genre. He knows exactly when to end a scene and mount suspense. The characters are well-drawn and believable. The plot is perfectly paced, holds your interest, and keeps you guessing.

The synopsis sounded good: a land deal, a shady buyer, lawyers in the buyers camp, family members on the side of the sellers, the lawyers' wedding that brings them together.

It took me ages to get through this. Mainly because of the many different POV that were not distinct enough to make it easy to keep the voices apart. Further, the mystery/thriller part was 'meh'.

This ARC was provided to me via Kindle, The Book Guild and by #NetGalley. Opinions expressed are completely my own.


Work so many characters it’s difficult to keep track of everything going on.

Some interesting characters and an unusual wedding, that’s for sure! The book is quite short considering how many perspectives the author seeks to include. While I liked the different perspectives, I did sometimes find myself losing track of who everyone was.

Much Ado…
Much ado in The Densham Do as a big family event, a wedding, is set to take place. With a host of characters to contend with and an entertaining storyline this is a quick, fun read. Not, perhaps, the solid mystery that was presented with the hook but nevertheless an enjoyable, nicely written read.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book. I was a bit dubious about reading this book before starting, based on the Goodreads reviews.

So, yes the book does jump from different perspectives of the different characters, however this is written in such a way that you know which of the character's perspective you are reading. Although saying that sometimes I did lose track of what role they played in the "The Densham Do family wedding".

Lawyers Kate and Robert are getting married and both are from well to do families and they are doing their wedding THEIR way, however there is a twist They want to bring down a corrupt Councillor at their own wedding. Although the Councillor has other ideas and wants to be the first to do the speech at the wedding - Kate, Robert and their wedding party play the Councillor at his own game.

As well as the twists, big events like weddings allow you to reflect and this is no different. Attending the wedding changed the majority of the guests lives / outlook for the better.

A great enjoyable read. I would definitely recommend it.

I was instantly hooked by the synopsis of this book it gave Agatha Christie vibes~ big family event, set over a weekend, the two main characters sounded a bit like Tommy and Tuppence with “bring them down” attitude~ so I was very pleased to given the chance to read a copy via NetGalley in exchange for a honest review.

For a book of only 248 pages there is a lot characters to get to grips with while some are really felt well developed, Celia was my favourite, I felt that others could have been cut from the story without much changing in terms of the plot and some could have developed further perhaps making the story a bit more exciting. This was a issue with the overall story you heard from too many people about the same thing, I usually quite like hearing from various viewpoints but I felt this slowed the book down particularly after the wedding has taken place.

The story itself wasn’t that exciting, the way it was presented in the first instance I thought created a bit of mystery and tension but as it went on this was lost.

All that being said it’s a fairly quick read that in places is fun. It would pass a hour or so without too much concentration, good for the tube ride home maybe…

Agree with the other reviewers on Netgalley - there are too many voices here, they are quite similar and I can only imagine they will get confusing. Could have done with both a more stringent copy- and structural edit.

Didn’t enjoy this unfortunately. There were far too many vague and underdeveloped characters that were just so numerous I lost track of who was who and ended up spending more time trying to remember who they all were than follow the plot.

When I read this book's description I thought it sounded just my sort of book - a mystery/thriller. So when I was offered a chance by Netgalley to read it in return for providing an honest review I jumped at the chance. Unfortunately the book didn't live up to my expectations. From the outset I encountered too many issues with poor grammar - unwarranted changes of tense in the middle of a sentence were particularly obvious and distracted me from my enjoyment. There were some little mistakes too, such as suggesting Duncan was from Scotland at one point when the author had commented numerous times that he came from Northumberland. Perhaps the main issue for me though was the format of the book - lots of viewpoints expressed about the same issues by numerous different characters. Initially the book provided name plus an indication of the character's relationship to the wedding couple but it then reverted to just using a character's name, and with so many characters it wasn't always easy to remember who was who. This is a device used by other authors and one that I find I normally work, but here there were just too many commentators. The use of different perspectives on the same issue also felt particularly unnecessary once the wedding itself was over. I really wasn't sure that a long discussion of the post-wedding non-events was necessary in any event. Overall I didn't feel that this was particularly thrilling or that there was much of a mystery and that it would have actually been better if it had finished when the wedding itself ended.

Interesting premise, characters and setting. All in all an entertaining story. Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.