SO HAPPY FOR YOU BY CEILA LASKEY
Hardback published by HQ 4th August 2022
ISBN 9780008481056
Pages 304
Bridesmaids meets Black Mirror in the most twisted and entertaining thriller of 2022.
‘A firecracker of a book’ Micah Nemerever, author of These Violent Delights
‘Ridiculously addictive to read. Wildly creative and wickedly funny’ Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here
Robin and Ellie have been best friends since childhood. They’ve been through everything together, from Robin coming out to the death of Ellie’s dad. But when Ellie asks Robin to be her maid of honour, Robin is reluctant.
It’s not that Robin isn’t happy for Ellie, she just hates everything about weddings and marriage – plus the guy Ellie’s engaged to. There’s also the matter of the crazy (not to mention dangerous) wedding rituals that couples are resorting to in the hope of securing a lifetime of happiness.
Despite her misgivings, Robin finally says yes. But as the wedding day approaches, she gets the feeling that everyone in the bridal party is out to get her. And it seems Ellie is willing to do anything for the perfect day. After all, marriage is about sacrifice…
MY REVIEW
My biggest shout out today is yikes! So Happy For You has straight frightening talking from the very first sentence.
If you want to know the story of how my best friend and I ended up trying to kill each other, I should probably start with the night she asked me to be her maid of honor.
I mean who doesn’t want to know what happened after reading the very first sentence?
Ellie and Robin had been best friends in high school, but as they got older, they wanted different things. For Ellie all she ever wanted was to meet a man to marry and have kids.
Years later, Ellie asked to meet up with Robin, who is a lesbian, and who has been with her girlfriend for nine years and although everyone at that point was campaigning for gay marriage, Robin didn’t believe in marriages
Robin, knew why Ellie wanted to meet up in a bar, because Ellie had finally got a boyfriend to propose to her even though Ellie had only been with her boyfriend for less than a year.
Ellie has a question for Robin will you be my maid of honor. All the girls meet up in a Malibu mansion turned country club, where everyone was staying where the ceremony would take place the day.
In part two some more straight to the point words.
If you’ve been wondering when we’re going to get to the part where Ellie and I try to kill each other, we’re getting close.
So who is going to try to kill who? Well I can’t tell you that
Robin is the narrator throughout this twisted thriller, with funny moments when things start to go wrong for the wedding. And with an ending that I didn’t see coming.
If you love reading about weddings like I do with a thriller twist in the tale you are in for a wedding to remember.
I would like to thank Harper Collins for sending me a printed hardback and for inviting me to take part in the blog tour.
About Celia Laskey
Celia currently attends the University of New Mexico’s creative writing MFA program for fiction, and in summer 2016 she attended the Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Albuquerque with her wife. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Minnesota Review, Necessary Fiction, and other magazines. Come as a Guest is part of a novel in progress.
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That first sentence is definitely one that would pull me in! Nice review!
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