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Review title: Looking for "The Big Chill?" Keep looking...
Product review: Having enjoyed both "The Pilot's Wife" and "The Big Chill," I was eager to read this book. Unfortunately, my anticipation was not rewarded. Ms. Shreve's idea for "A Wedding in December" was sound and could have been developed into a terrific book. Instead, she provided the reader with poorly developed characters and an ill-conceived storyline tied to a rather odd "secret" from the group's past. Interspersed within the main theme was a story-within-a-story about several people involved in a historical disaster that had no apparent relevance to the main story. It was out-of-place and, as a result, it consistently served to interrupt what little momentum the main storyline was able to carry from chapter to chapter. To top it all off, the ending fell flat and was unsatisfying, giving the reader no sense of closure. I would not recommend this book and have actually cautioned friends against it.
