The Wedding Beat: A Novel by Devan Sipher

Published April 3rd 2012 by NAL Trade

Paperback, 256 pages

Sometimes the best man isn't even in the wedding party...Gavin Greene is a hopeless romantic. He's also a professional one: he writes the wedding column for a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, covering spectacular parties from coast to coast. But there's a thin line between being a hotshot reporter on assignment...and being a single guy alone on a Saturday night at someone else's wedding.Everything changes on New Year's when Gavin meets Melinda, a travel writer with enchanting dimples. A moonlit stroll across a Manhattan rooftop seals the deal. Until an Aussie with attitude swoops in and whisks her away before Gavin gets her number.Gavin crisscrosses New York City to find her again. And he learns that there's something worse than losing the woman of his dreams: Having to write an article about her wedding.

My rating: 4 stars

It's my first time to read a novel from a male's perspective, and oh- boy i really enjoyed it. This is not the usual chick lit you'd read where a girl go crazy over a man hoping he'd notice her. This is the other way around. 

Well, there were parts where I think that Gavin's character is more appropriate for a female character (maybe because i'm fond of reading romance where the female is the romantic one), but overall the way how the story ended was really good! It's the typical ending you'd see on romantic/comedy movies. The part where the the man is too afraid to admit he loves a girl only to find out that the girl loves him too! Too cheesy, but who doesn't want those type of endings anyway. 

I also enjoyed this book because it revived the memories I had experienced while My husband and I was still planning for our church wedding. The jitters, and the problems depicted on the story (Minus the cold feet because i didn't have that:) ) were all true. Those things were really inevitable on this special occasion.

i'm giving this 4 stars because I think there are too many characters on the story, and I had a hard time remembering their names; though most of them are not really main chracters. 

So for all the males who plan to read this book, better be the BEE! :) before it's too late.