Another thoroughly enjoyable culinary tale. The incorporation of flawed, true-to-life people makes the story believable, and the food descriptions add that something extra you can’t find in other similar books. The characters make the novel shine, each adding their own personality and piece of the tale. Readers will be emotionally moved — and very hungry — after reading this one!
Sophie Bernstein has been planning her wedding to be the event she has always dreamed of, even going into debt to make it happen. Yet on the big day, the groom is a no-show, and Sophie’s humiliation is captured for the world to see. She loses her primo pastry chef job and is forced to move in with her grandmother and take a job at a tiny local bakery. She discovers a knack for giving wedding advice, so begins answering questions online as “Wedding Girl.” As Sophie struggles to pull her life back together, she learns many things about what happiness really means.

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I have read most of Stacey Ballis' books and I have to say this one was my favorite. She excels in writing stories that have real to life characters with relatable issue and main characters that you find yourself rooting for. This book was full of heart, humor, romance and family dynamics. Each of her books features women who you feel like you could be friends with, they are real and not the typical woman in distress that is sometimes featured in women's fiction.
This book tells the story of Sophie, a pastry chef who is left on the day of her wedding after her fiancee runs off and marries another woman. This event send Sophie into a spiral and she winds up losing her job and having to sell her condo and move in with her grandmother. She is in a lot of debt from the wedding and winds up taking a job at a local bakery in order to pay off her bills. While trying to recover from all that has happened to her, Sophie discovers what and who are most important to her all the while trying to figure out what her life's passion is.
A truly enjoyable book, I read it in one day.