The Wrong Bride Book Review

This book is about falling for the guy you shouldn’t and feeling insecure, but managing to stand up for yourself while others doubt you and your worth. The Wrong Bride explores new beginnings, family and, of course, love.

I am stuck between Raven and Ares as my favorite character, so I’m going to get into both of their characters.

Raven is one of my favorites because she goes through enough heartache and doesn’t give up. She still treats people with the respect they don’t deserve because that’s the kind of person she is. My favorite thing about her though is the ability to stand up for herself, not only with her family, but her career and Ares. Raven also fought for what she wanted, knowing it would cost her relationships with her family. Her character had an amazing change that I admired.

Ares is my favorite because he loves fiercely and takes care of the people he loves. His character is one of the possessive types, if he so much as catches someone looking at her he makes it known that she is his. He also has great character development, I went from tolerating him in the beginning to falling in love with him at the end. The things he did in the beginning were questionable, but he ended up making up for everything throughout the story.

There are two characters I despised while reading this, and I will start by getting into the character I hated most. I know, hate is such a strong word, but it best describes my feelings toward these characters.

The character hated most, but barely, is Raven’s mother. She shows complete favoritism and treats her own daughter as she is nothing. The lengths she goes for Hannah throughout the story is sickening, all while talking down on Raven.

Hannah comes very close to tying the mother in the hate department, and the only reason she didn’t is because I think it’s worse for a mother to treat her daughter like trash than a sister. Raven’s sister Hannah is a complete narcissist throughout the story, and continuously tries to sabotage Raven any way she can. I hoped that her character would’ve had a good change, but I think she only got crazier and jealous. In another way, I’m glad she didn’t because she brought a different level of excitement to the book that I didn’t know I needed.

Other than Ares, I’m glad that Raven had her dad on her side, for the most part. He at least made sure to check on Raven when needed, and made her feel a little bit of a parents love. And even though she got mistreated by her own family, she found a family within Ares. She also had a really good friendship with Sierra, and it made me wish I still had a friendship like that. One that I can run to their house as soon as I’m not okay, like Raven did with Sierra.

If I had to change anything it would be the declarations every single time there was a serious conversation. Ares was sweet in the book, but at times I felt like he could’ve went without the huge declarations; it became repetitive for me.

I would recommend this book to anyone with a love for drama and craziness. This is definitely a book for adults, as there is a lot of spice involved in this one. Even though there is spice, I think any reader should prepare for the amount of anger induced scenes, but also the happy ones. Also, if anyone highlights and takes notes while reading, you will be highlighting a lot. I basically highlighted the entire thing, happy reading!