KEEP CALM AND CARRY A BIG DRINK by Kim Gruenenfelder is the
first
book I've ever read by this author and I can honestly tell
you, I wasn't
disappointed. Seema, Nic, and Mel are best friends. This is
book two about
these three friends. Book one, There's Cake In My Future, is
where you
meet them. In this sequel, The story begin with Seema
about to become
married. Mel is about to lose her job as a math teacher, and
Nic is very pregnant. What could possibly go wrong with
this story? Get ready
to laugh out loud as you flip through the pages.
At Seema's wedding shower they have a cake pull. Each
person pulls a
ribbon from the cake and there is a charm attached to the
ribbon. What
could possibly go wrong with this? Nic says she has the
cake all figured
out and Mel, wanting to travel, asks her where the passport
charm is. Nic
tells her exactly where to find it but of course, when it
comes time to do the
pulling, the cake has a mind of its own and Mel gets a
charm that isn't the
passport. She gets a charm she doesn't want or need. Now
the fun
begins. Mel just doesn't know it yet.
So, with Seema becoming a newlywed and Nic about to have a
baby, Mel
starts to rethink her life and where it is going. Mel has
sex with Jay. Jay is
Seema's brother. Mel decides to fly halfway across the
world to be with Jay
in Paris. Is she doing the right thing? Everywhere they
go, they meet
women from Jay's past. Some seem happy to see him and most
of the
others not so much. Mel starts to wonder if she has made a
mistake. She
has been crushing on Jay for many many years. Should she
throw all of
that away? What should she do? Get out of Paris and away
from Jay as
fast as she can? Wait around and see where it goes? Read
KEEP CALM
AND CARRY A BIG DRINK to find out.
These three women have such a strong friendship and nothing
can break
that bond. I want to be their friend and go through life
with them. I love the
friendship that these ladies share, their conversations, the
fun they have
together. Every woman should have friends like them. Kim
Gruenenfelder
has now become one of my favorite women's fiction authors.
I can't wait to read the
rest of this series. I did really enjoy Mel's story and I
laughed out loud
during several parts in KEEP CALM AND CARRY A BIG DRINK.
In Keep Calm and Carry a Big Drink, Kim Gruenenfelder's
delicious follow-up to There's Cake in My Future, Seema, Nic
and Mel are back, adjusting to their new lives as a
bride-to-be, a mother-to-be, and a recently single girl
looking for love
It's been almost a year since Mel, Nic and Seema pulled
their magical charms out of the cake at Nic's bridal shower
and most of their happily-ever-afters seemingly came true.
Seema is about to marry Scott in an elaborate three-day
affair. Nic is glowingly pregnant. And Mel... well, Mel
feels as if she accidentally veered off the rails of her
life at some point and isn't sure how to get back on. She
recently became single again, she's been threatened with a
layoff from her teaching job, and she has to find her own
place now that Scott is moving in with her roommate, Seema.
Nic thinks Mel just needs a new cake charm to bring her good
luck. . . and decides to rig the cake pull at Seema's bridal
shower. Desperate for travel, Mel asks for the passport
charm. But, once again, the cake proves to have a mind of
its own, and she pulls a charm she doesn't want, and can not
use. Rather than be bound by the charm's prophecy, Mel
realizes she, and she alone, is responsible for her destiny.
A spur of the moment decision takes her to Paris and then
Maui, where she finds herself on an adventure that she never
could have imagined, experiencing the trials and
tribulations of a life suddenly and perfectly unplanned.
And, along the way, she begins to learn that, however
nonsensical it may seem, the cake is never wrong...
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