Wedding Night

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Wedding Night

Sophie Kinsella

Dial Press: 2013, 464 pages

Reviewed by Jessie Park

Lottie is devastated; she's 33 and been with Richard for three years and she just knew that he was going to propose.  Except she was wrong, Richard had no intention of proposing.  Fed up with dating and excited about reconnecting with an old ex-boyfriend, Lottie jumps into a very quick marriage.  Lottie and her new husband, Ben, are off to honeymoon in Greece, where they first met each other 15 years ago.  However, Lottie's sister, Fliss, thinks this is all a huge mistake.  She has to stop Lottie from regretting her decision and realizes that annulment is the best and fastest option.  But how can she stop the blissful couple from coupling on their honeymoon?  Kinsella's Wedding Night is full of humor, wit, and entertainment, even if the situations are a bit out there.

Finding Audrey

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Finding Audrey

Sophie Kinsella

Delacorte Books for Young Readers: 2015, 288 pages

Reviewed by Jessie Park

Finding Audrey focuses on fourteen year old Audrey Turner who is trying to deal with her anxiety disorders and bouts of depression after an incident happens at her old school.  She finds comfort behind her dark sunglasses and tends to stay in her house where she doesn't have to interact with people.  Readers are therefore privy to her interactions with her dysfunctional, yet hilarious, family.  Things start to change, however, when Audrey meets Linus, one of her brother's online gaming buddies.  Author Kinsella manages to take a more humorous and hopeful approach to mental illness in her YA debut.  Readers are not only drawn into Audrey's situation but they can't help becoming invested in the other characters as well.