I received a copy of The Wedding Cake Girl by Anne Pfeffer to review from Reading Addiction Blog Tours. Below you'll find a synopsis, a free excerpt, my review, and a chance to win a copy too!!
Date
Published: July 24, 2012
Synopsis:
Seventeen-year-old Alexandra spends so much
time helping others realize their dreams
that she never has time for her own. An expert
ocean diver and reluctant maker of
wedding cakes, she longs to leave roses and
frosting behind to study oceanography.
Alex’s mother won’t have it—needy and
dependent, Mom can’t run the family wedding
cake business on her own.
No matter what Alex does, things only get
worse for her. When she saves a man's life
while scuba diving and becomes the local
hero, Mom's angry with Alex for going diving
at all. Mom discourages Alex's new friendship
with Jeremy, a fun and insanely wealthy
boy who happens to have a secret. Then,
Alex's best friend, Zack, a hunky island guy,
starts to take an interest in her as well.
The problem is, he's dating another girl.
If she doesn't do something fast, Alex will
spend her life making wedding cakes and be
buried in her "Sue's Wedding
Cakery" apron with a spatula in her hand.
The Wedding Cake Girl features a colorful
island setting, dangerous underwater diving
adventures, a family of billionaires, and
lots and lots of buttercream. The book is Alex's
journey toward not only finding love, but
learning how to step forward and take control of
her own life, a rite of passage that faces
all young readers.
My Review
Ever since having my daughter a little over a year ago I have been thinking of her whenever I read books! I love to search for reads that I can share with her when she's older - sort of a small collection of books I'm starting that I think she'll enjoy! (Don't get me wrong - I do this for my son too - but I don't think the majority of romance novels I read will interest him too much!)
I am happy to say that this book will go into that collection!
A novel about growing into a woman and making your own choices, Alex reminds me of so many girls I knew as a teenager, trying to separate their own dreams from those of their parents. (I was blessed in that department, my parents encouraging independent choices!).
Even if you didn't experience that either, you can still probably remember yourself as a girl, in Alex's shoes, lusting after they boy next door who seems to never think of you as more than a friend!
I love Pfeffer's writing - being complex without being too complex, being able to make you feel like you did a decade ago (or whenever you happened to be 17!) and get lost in those emotions all over again!
I highly recommend this read for women Alex's age who might happen to be at a crossroads in their teens, or for older women such as myself who love to remember being 17 and how far we've come!
But don't just take my word for it!
Read a FREE excerpt here: http://www.debbie-jean.com/p/wedding-cake-girl-excerpt.html
Then,
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Also be sure to read about the author below!
Good luck and happy reading!
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Where to buy:
amazon: http://tinyurl.com/cybyzgm
goodreads: http://tinyurl.com/csush2s
Author Bio:
Anne Pfeffer lives in Los
Angeles near a large rotating neon chicken head with her
daughter and her dachshund
Taco.
Contact Links:
Website:
www.annepfeffer.com
Twitter: AnnePfeffer1
And now the giveaway!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Great review...sounds like a pretty good book
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a great book! I want to read it! :)
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a great book! I definitely want to read it. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI would like to read this and win it! :)
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