A Wedding in Truhart by Cynthia Tennent – a Review

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Description
Welcome to Truhart, Michigan, population 1300 and dropping. Where everyone knows everyone else and garage sales are front page news. Not exactly where you’d expect to find the celebrity wedding of the year. As Maid of Honor, and the famous bride’s big sister, Annie has to plan a wedding suitable for America’s newest sweetheart reporter on The Morning Show. But what she didn’t plan on was seeing Nick Conrad again. Her older brother’s best friend who left Truhart for the big city, Nick just happens to be Annie’s embarrassing childhood crush. He’s also the Best Man.

As Atlanta’s High Society descends on the tiny Midwest town, Annie has the impossible task of controlling her eccentric family and nutty neighbors, while hosting a wedding fit for a princess at her family’s rundown Amble Inn. But what she can’t control is the spark reigniting between her and Nick. Between snowstorms, an A.W.O.L. gown, and the broadcast of the wedding on The Morning Show, Annie is just hoping to survive the big day without losing her mind. And to survive being around Nick again without losing her heart


Review:

A Wedding in Truhart by Cynthia Tennent is the first book in her Truhart series. This is a sweet romance that surrounds two families that are very different. One family is high society in Georgia, and the other is somewhat eccentric from a small mid western town in Michigan.

The premise of the story is a wedding between the bride from the small town and the groom from a wealthy high society family. Annie is our heroine, and we meet her when she and her mom, and aunt attend her sister’s engagement party. Annie’s sister, Charlotte moved to Atlanta and is now a rising news reporter for the Morning Show. Annie almost immediately senses her sister’s concern over their down to earth, loud and eccentric family dealing with the snobbish and rich Lowell family. Annie becomes defensive, especially when she sees Nick, our hero, who was her childhood crush and who is now part of the Georgia elite. Much of the early story, though at times funny, especially her aunt, but other times a bit embarrassing. Because Annie began to feel out of place, seeing her sister’s concern, and then she finds herself picking on Nick, which was annoying.

With a major storm causing havoc in Atlanta, the wedding plans are forced to move it to Truhart, and the inn they own, which is possibly on its last days. What follows is a nice and funny story of how everyone in Truhart work together to make this wedding surpass the expectations of the Lowells. What could go wrong does go wrong, as we did expect the unexpected.

I loved Annie’s devotion to her family, but also thought she was way too off the wall with her constantly getting mad or being mean to Nick. It did change, but she had begun to rub me the wrong way, despite the snobbish future family her sister was marrying into. I loved Nick, as I thought he was the best character, and his patience and forgiving attitude with Annie was great.

The Aunt was hysterical, though I have to admit I would have been embarrassed at times, too. Lol Charlotte’s intended, Henry was also a great guy, and though very rich, he was down to earth and quickly accepted Charlotte’s family.   It was a fun ending, though I thought it ended a bit abruptly.   A Wedding in Truhart was a different, but nice sweet romance.

Reviewed by Barb

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