A review by deecreatenola
A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve

2.0

I was surprised that I didn't like this book more, having read the Pilot's Wife and liking it. But all of the characters in this book were so self-involved that no one was especially sympathetic. Everyone seemed to have a secret, most revolving around a secret longing or unrequited love. Although the description focuses on the classmate who died, that actually seemed minor to the whole story, with the exception that two of the characters first kissed the night that the classmate died.

Even more irritating were the characters use of elevated language - the kind you'll read in an academic tome, but not the way people really talk, even people who went to an elite boarding school.

There is a story within the story about an explosion that affects one family and a doctor. That story was almost more interesting than the main story!