Review: Four Weekends and a Funeral

Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

With all of Allison's inner dialoguing and the misconceptions she allowed to go on, this book just got very annoying.

I do admit that Allison's medical issue/s was an unusual concept for romance ( BRCA1 is a gene mutation, a predisposition for breast cancer that is inherited). I felt it was handled fairly well. I did get a little tired of her inner- dialogue about her nipples or, rather, lack thereof, though!

Adam was a wimp-period.

No, I was unable to immerse myself in this story, and I did not manage to find out if Adam and Allison finally did the deed. I'm sure it was romantic in some way, but like I said, I couldn't force myself to finish this ARC.

Please make sure you read all of the reviews that extoll the wonderfulness of this novel. They must have seen something I didn't, or perhaps it's just my age, and you need to be in the younger generation to 'get' this book.

*ARC was supplied by the publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, the author, and NetGalley.

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SYNOPSIS "A tender, laugh-out-loud debut romance about a woman who ends up in over her head after a little white lie . . .

When thirty-year-old post-double-mastectomy BRCA 1 carrier and reluctant thrill-seeker Alison Mullally arrives at her ex-boyfriend Sam’s funeral to find that no one knows he dumped her, she agrees to play the grieving girlfriend for the sake of the family and pack up Sam’s apartment with his prickly best friend, Adam Berg. After all, it’ll only take four weekends . . .

But Adam doesn’t want Alison anywhere near him. Forced to spend long hours with the grump, and his monosyllabic demeanor, Alison decides she must put her people-pleasing abilities to the test. She will make him like her. And after awkward family affairs and packing up dilemmas, the two form a tenuous friendship . . . if “friendship” means incredible chemistry and tension between them. Can Alison come clean and finally embrace the life and love she's always wanted? Or will her little white lie get in the way of her new, unexpected romance?"