The Chocolate Bridal Bash (Chocoholic Mysteries, No. 6) | 
| Author: Joanna Carl
Publisher: Signet
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 045121918X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780451219183
ASIN: 045121918X
Publication Date: August 1, 2006
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Book Description
Bride-to-be Lee McKinney has butted heads with her future mother-in-law over her upcoming wedding. The last thing she needs is trouble with her own mom, who doesn't even want to be at the wedding if it takes place in Warner Pier, her hometown... So Lee asks her Aunt Nettie at the chocolate shop for advice. There, the bride learns that years earlier, her mother fled on what would have been her own wedding day-hours before her fiance was found dead. Now, to smooth things over, Lee must untangle a mystery older than she is.
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 More historic shenanigans November 11, 2007
Lee and Joe set a wedding date at the end of the last book (The Chocolate Puppy Puzzle) so it is no surprise that this book focuses on the preparations for the wedding. Lee gets to deal with her future mother in law, her aunt, and the other characters in Warner Pier who are all trying to be helpful but cause Lee lots of grief. one thing that is odder than most is that many of the locals want to know if Lee's mother - Sally - is coming to the wedding.
You see, Sally left Warner Pier under somewhat mysterious circumstances thirty years before and has only returned to attend her brother's funeral for a short stay of one or two days since. As Lee is setting up her own wedding, she finds out that Sally disappeared from Warner Pier on what should have been HER wedding day; the prospective groom committed suicide that same day; and Sally has never mentioned a word of this to her only daughter. Something must be going on! and Lee decides to investigate.
One thing leads to another and Lee begins to unravel what went on in Warner Pier thirty years before. Apparently whatever was going on still resonates in the community as it is not too long before a modern day murder is committed. Lee gets Sally to come to Warner Pier and kidnappings, threats, and all kinds of chaos get loosened on the tranquil little world of Ten Huis Chocolates.
Needless to say, all is resolved in the end and Lee gets to understand her mother's story; Sally grows up; Aunt Nettie has her own developments going on; Lee is able to wend her way through the mother-in-law and aunt minefields and everyone moves on with their lives.
Several people have written about the "annoying" tongue tangling that Lee suffers from and suggested that there was too much of it in this book. I agree that there were too many of them reported, but I found them to be reasonably believable as they only occur when Lee is stressed and I find some of the tangles to be absolutely hysterical and leading to a nice change of pace as a humor break at times of high tension. So, I did not mind them at all.
I did not like how many new characters were introduced. All of them knew a lot about what happened thirty years before, but none of them were previously introduced. The murderer's identity and the outline of the connection between what happened before and what is happening the now of this book were apparent very early on because of this which made this book's mystery not very mysterious. Oh well, I guess you cannot have everything and now we can expect another wedding and more fun and games in Warner Pier in the future.
 a very enjoyable light read August 15, 2007
This title is sixth in the Chocoholic Mysteries series.
With this title we not ony get more background on the heroine's early years, but we have some insight into her Aunt's life both present and past as well. This fleshing-out of the characters gives more depth to an otherwise light read.
The heroine's quirky habit of substituting words with other words when she is nervous can be annoying, but it does not detract too much from a good story.
Note to JoAnna Carl - Stop ruining your own books! August 9, 2007
When the vast majority of your reviewers are telling you that they enjoy your books, except for Lee's tongue tangles, it is time for you to listen. This complaint has been made in reviews for all of your past books, yet the malapropisms continue. It is not a cute device! It detracts from the story, interrupts the conversational flow, and makes Lee seem like an idiot. I would enjoy your books so much more without them. Please have Lee see a Speech Therapist in your next book and dig yourself out of this literary hole you have created. Your fans will thank you.
THE CHOCOLATE BRIDAL BASH May 10, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
ALWAYS ENJOY THESE YUMMY CHOCOLATE MYSTERIES........YOU CAN ENJOY THE CHOCOLATES WITHOUT GAINING WEIGHT.........LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE
 Please STOP with the tongue tangles April 23, 2007
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I enjoy this series, but got so annoyed with the tongue tangles I would just skip over them. I can understand how a person can confuse words when scared or nervous, but it was overdone this time. Besides this minor annoyance, the characters are fun and delightful. I'm looking forward to the next chapter in Lee's life, now that she is a married lady.
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