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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