Jennifer W. (
GeniusJen) from BLOOMINGTON, IL wrote on 7/20/2008...
Reviewed by Taylor Rector for TeensReadToo.com
Wilson Lewis comes to the sad realization one day that after thirty years of marriage his wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him. Jane's father, Noah, (this book is the sequel to THE NOTEBOOK) has always had respect for Wilson and Noah tells him stories of how he kept Allie from falling out of love with him.
Wilson is an estate lawyer and has spent very little time at home over the years. He realizes that Jane fell out of love with him when he forgot their twenty-ninth wedding anniversary.
Jane was a stay-at-home mom and raised their three kids -- Anna, Joseph, and Leslie.
Anna comes home one day to announce that she is getting married. Because of Noah's health and since her fiancé is heading to college, they want to get married the next Saturday. Anna claims that she wants a small wedding at the courthouse, but her mom, of course, wants a big wedding, even though they only have eight days to put it together.
Saturday is Wilson and Jane's anniversary and Wilson wanted to do something really special this year so he took the week before and the week after their anniversary off from work. He hasn't taken that much time off in eight years!
With all the work to do with the wedding, Wilson has been making Jane dinner more often and trying to help out as much as he can. What will Wilson do to make his wife fall back in love with him, so that she doesn't leave him?
Coming from Nicholas Sparks, this book had a very high bar set for it. And this romantic love story went far beyond that! THE WEDDING is yet another wonderful romance from this amazing author!
Angela S. (
booksquirrel) from KNOXVILLE, TN wrote on 1/30/2008...
Great love story. I enjoyed Wilson's transition from beginning to end. I figured out the ending before I got to it, but it was still kind of a sweet surprise because I wasn't sure if I was right until the last chapter. I cried my eyes out, too.
Someone else mentioned that Noah made this sequel to 'The Notebook' and Allie didn't, and it didn't seem right because they both supposedly died in 'The Notebook'. I didn't think they had both died as the last line read something about them drifting off to Heaven itself, but does that really mean they died? Hmmm...it did frustrate me while reading this book to think about that.