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No-one Ever Has Sex at a Wedding

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Shenanigans, fun and lots of giggles! A great example of friendship, sticking together through thick and thin. It's the first one of the series I've read so I clearly missed some things. 
Braindead is my favourite (and Ben for being such a great husband) , I too, do not have a filter and say weird stuff. 
Their conflict resolution skills aren't the best but they try!  

The message of the book is clear: what marriage is about. 

Is it bad that it makes me want to go to a wedding?
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Unfortunately I have not read the other books in this series so I was a little lost. However it's a fun light read with some added cheekiness. If you were a fan of Sex and the City, you'll more than likely enjoy this book.
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This is the only "No-one ever has sex" book I've read. It's only after I started reading it that I realized it's the 4th book of an ongoing series. So I only have an opinion about this one, I have no idea if the previous ones are good or bad and, in all honesty, it's not likely that I'll try and find out.

No-one Ever Has Sex at a Wedding is the story of a group of friends, most of which have somehow fucked up in some way or other and are trying to get their shit together.

First we have Katy, who years ago cheated on her lovely husband Ben. But he forgave her and they now have a happy and healthy marriage.
Then there's Matthew, Katy's ex-boyfriend and the one with whom she cheated on Ben. Matthew is married to Alison, who had no idea about her husband's infidelity and when she found out kicked him out of her house.
There's also Daniel, who is what seems to me like Katy's token gay best friend, who is getting married to Gabriel, Katy's mum's husband's son (yeah, i know, it's complicated).
And lastly there's Craig, AKA Braidead, who everyone says is really intelligent deep down but really isn't. Honestly, he's a complete moron and I can't understand why anyone would share any sort of secret with him.
There are a few other minor characters but none of them is too interesting so I'm not going to mention them.

So, Alison kicks Matthew out after finding about his cheating, Matthew tries to do everything in his power to win her back, Katy tries to help because she shares some of the blame, Ben tries to help because he's a good person, Braindead tries to help because he's the reason that Alison found out, and Daniel doesn't really care about any of these idiots up until the very end.

This was really fun to read, honestly, it had some really funny and really heartwarming moments. But it felt to me like a Sex and the City episode, in the sense that it was really enjoyable but also full of stereotypes and annoying characters. For instance, Daniel's only character trait (other than sheer selfishness) is that he's stereotypically gay. And that bugs me so much.

'Really?' said Braindead, looking confused. 'But she has, like, loads of gay friends. Why did she have to have mine? That's just typical of her. Anything I have, she wants.'

Because, as we all know, each person is allocated a specific amount of gay friends?

Also, the ending was utterly ridiculous.


Thank you, Netgalley.
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HIlarious, quirky, fast-paced; Bloom's novel is pure chick-lit from beginning to end, contemporary and lovely.
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