Stupid Cupid

by Arabella Weir

It's only "forty-bloody-two miserable, sodding days" before her wedding and Hat Grant, the heroine of Stupid Cupid, has just been dumped. Too scared to face the truth behind her fiancé's "it's-not-you-it's-me speech", Hat decides not to let this little hitch stand in her way and steadfastly continues planning a wedding to die for. It's somehow easier to plough through a step-by-step wedding day countdown than worry that there's no sign of the groom.

There's a limit, though, to how many times you can pad around your bedroom in wedding shoes to break them in or argue with your mother over the seating plan. Stargazer lilies and vol-au-vent fillings aside, it's not long before everything's ready and there's nothing to prevent Hat from listening to the frantic, panic-stricken voice inside her that's screaming "there's no groom". It's time to embark on the increasingly desperate (and funny) Top Ten Ways To Get Your Boyfriend Back, via a nasty bunny boiling incident and an episode worthy of Frank Spencer. Just how far will Hat go before she realises she's more interested in getting married than being married?

Genres: Chick Lit, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction

309 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Arabella Weir is a Scottish comedian, actress and writer. She played roles in the comedy series The Fast Show and Posh Nosh, and has written several books, including Does My Bum Look Big in This? Weir has also written for The Independent and The Guardian and the latter's Weekend magazine. In 2006, she voiced an alternative third incarnation of the Doctor for Big Finish's Unbound audio range.

Reviews

[Lauren Johnston · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book much more than what I thought I would. I laughed basically the entire way through! What a great and funny read. Loved it.

[Lorraine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed it, light, a bit predictable chick lit

[Lia · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun and romantic story! Definitely recommend reading a few pages before bed, to cheer up!

[Bex · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not sure why this ended up on my shelf. Made it three chapters before the way Scottish was written down did my head in so I skipped to the end and read the last three. There must be an audience for this somewhere but I'm not it. Stupid woman gets dumped before wedding and decides she still wants to get married so keeps everything going.

[Marja · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a silly and fun read. The premise is completely ridiculous: Hat gets dumped a few weeks before her wedding day but to her friends' dismay decides to win her fiancé back before the D-DAY and continues with the wedding preparations. Hat's steadfastness irritated me a little from early on and I was worried that the whole book would be very repetitive, but it wasn't like that. Hat's attitude started to shift with thanks to her meddling friends and family and new acquaintances coming into her life. It was a light read and I had fun with it. A perfect bedtime read.

3.5 stars

[Nau · Rating 1 out of 5]

UGHHH SERIOUSLY, WHY I EVEN READ THIS?!

thank god I only read it on my class library since I was too bored and I don't have anything to be read. I hate how she tell and describe scottish and lgbt people here, and this is really boring. seriously, I can't even think why I could finish this book.

(also, the only good part is when she mention about David Tennant here. what a good times to be alive)

[Gayle Scarratt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh I loved this book !! I had this book for my pregnancy of my first son. I was in stiches, my other half would refuse to come to bed when I was reading it. I said he couldnt concentrate on his book with me laughing. That said its a rollercoaster of a book wonderful characters and whist the rationale may not be necessarily be true to life, I did feel for and enjoy the characters. 20 years later i am looking for a copy to re read it.

[Tiny Shen 沈帝妮 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Selesai dibaca sekali duduk. Kocak sih, cerita tentang Hat yang ngebet nikah tapi tunangannya malah membatalkan. Dimulailah ulah2 kocak Hat. Hat bahkan tidak memberitahukan kepada keluarganya jika pernikahannya batal.

[Rei Anthony Albon · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story shows how some men can be indecisive in important events and how some women would just want their dreams to come true. Although it had some parts where not much was happening, the writer did do a good job in describing the setting, the characters and the feeling that they felt.

[Nicola · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this, it was a relaxing read with a predictable end.

[Bonnie Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the ending.

[Susan Barton · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not for me this book read about three chapters and gave up

[Andrea Boulton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book.... Hat felt like an old friend with troubles to tell and needed guidance, right til the end

A good read

[Lorry Rule · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quirky, funny quick read.

[Charlotte Haigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

An easy read, quite amusing page turner!

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Based on the reviews I really didn’t know whether to read this book or not. Glad I did it was enjoyable.

[Fhily · Rating 2 out of 5]

kau tahu apa masalahmu? kau tak bisa melihat hutan dari pohonnya

Bercerita tentang Harriet Grant atau Hat, seorang tukang kebun dan petugas pengawas tanaman kantor, 33 tahun yang dicampakan 6 minggu sebelum pernikahannya dengan James Mackenzie atau Jimmy, membatalkan semua rencana pernikahan mereka. Tapi Hat tetap saja ngotot melanjutkan pernikahannya walaupun tanpa mempelai pria? :O, persiapan demi persiapan dia lakukan sendirian bahkan dia ngotot ingin melakukan gladi resik di Gereja meski tanpa calon suami. Temannya sudah memperingatkannya tentang semua itu, tapi dasar hat keras kepala dia tetap saja tak mau mendengar. Berbagai cara ia tempuh agar Jimmy mau menikahinya dan merubah pikirannya, namun kurang berhasil. Sedangkan keluarganya sudah meminta Hat untuk bertemu Tunangannya. Kemudian datang Sam, seseorang yang sudah menikah dengan Gloria hanya sebuah skandal, padahal Gloria adalah seorang aktivis Gay dan Lesbian. Sedangkan, Sam malah jatuh cinta pada Hat sejak pertama kali mereka bertemu. Konflik inilah yang terjadi disini.
Sebenarnya Hat ingin benar-benar memiliki Jimmy karena mencintainya, ataukah yang dia inginkan hanya sebuah pesta pernikahan?

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Sebenarnya buku ini lumayan bagus, cuma entah mengapa saya bored membaca bab-bab awal buku ini, mungkin masalah saya tak bisa mencerna dengan baik novel terjemahan khususnya pada genre Chicklit seperti ini. Sebenarnya konfliknya juga oke, tapi entah kenapa dalam bagian novel ini saya hanya suka pada bagian-bagian akhir, apalagi kalimat yang saya tulis untuk pembuka review ini. Yah begitulah, makanya bintang dua cukuplah untuk novel ini.

[Veronica Widya · Rating 2 out of 5]

ooh,, the story is kinda lame.
i mean when at first i read the summary i think it would be interesting.
Because usually the bride falling in love with the guy who replace the groom for a while.
Actually the story is predictable. Yeah, finally hat is fell with Sam, but how Ms. Weir tell the story is not good at all. It not tell the detail how Sam can fall in love with Hat? The book is thin, but its like almost nothing inside that. It just tell how stupid Hat still maintain the wedding although its over. she didnt think much. I can understand if she want to married, and about the wedding preparation because its exciting! But she cant excite anymore if theres no groom. it just becaome the disaster! and she must spend all of the money for nothing!
I dont think its funny, really.
Penny is nice actually, Hat is just envy her because Penny is always become her mom's trophy. But im glad they have the happy ending finally. At least.

[Catherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

There was such a lot of chick-lit on the table on Tuesday that I had to pick up at least one, and I'm glad I did. That night I developed a dreadful cold, which has still not died down, so I was glad to have something fluffy to read.

Poor Hat is dumped by her fiancé six weeks before her wedding and never quite gets round to calling it off. It's a combination of not having the nerve to tell people, not wanting to admit to herself that Jimmy Mack won't be coming back (ear-worm or what?), and then finding that even her initially sceptical friend is getting dragged along by the momentum of it all.

The comedy is often of the cringing in embarrassment on behalf of someone variety, there are the usual cast of stock characters (overbearing snobby Mummy, ineffectual Dad, gay friend, glamorous eccentric ...) and the outcome is fairly inevitable, but it was an undemanding and reasonably entertaining way of passing the afternoon.

[Angelic Zaizai · Rating 2 out of 5]

Arghhh entah karena gw udah bosan baca chiklit atau gimana, akhir2 ini rasanya cerita chiklit ini kok datar2 aja ya.. kurang heboh, kurang norak, kurang gemesin..

*kecuali Doggy Style - love Miles hahaha*

Cerita tentang Hat yang tetep maksa ngadain pesta pernikahan, meskipun sang groom udah memutuskan ngebatalinnya.
Harusnya kan kocak, tapi kok kurang berasa ya..

Mungkin harus cuti dulu dari chiklit.. :D :D

*psst.. tapi kali diliat dari versi aslinya, emang ga banyak edisi terjemahannya, berarti emang ni buku ga terlalu diminati... aiyoo gramedia.. cari chiklit yang seru duong...*

[Melissa Namba · Rating 2 out of 5]

OK So I remember totally hating this when I read it like a decade ago. This time, I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it and mostly it is because I loved Sam so much. So, I am going to blame PMS for that and say I like sappy stories when I am pre-menstrual. The story is stupid and not really believble in any sense. If I had friends like her, I wouldn't stay friends with them for very long, because Hat us annoying. But I needed a light read that wasn't a children's book and this filled that need.

[Nathalia · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a shallow, mindless read, which I would recommend to read on the beach.
I thought this would be funnier, but it was a bit boring to be honest. Good enough to finish, because after all you want to know if the wedding will happen or not. But I had a lot of pity with Harriet, even though she annoyed me and I did not really enjoy any of the characters.

[Maimon · Rating 4 out of 5]

hillariousy funny.

[Rahmadiyanti · Rating 2 out of 5]

Tipikal deehhh...

[Saj · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book many years ago and have been trying to find it ever since. It was just an awesome, funny book with a lovable main character. A perfectly silly story.

[Michela · Rating 1 out of 5]

a really stupid book....... the bf leave her 20 days before the wedding but she does't say to antìybody that the weddig is over.....

[Steve Mitchell · Rating 3 out of 5]

I realise that you would probably call this book 'chick lit' but I think Arabella Weir is a brilliant comic writer and this does provide a few genuine belly laughs even if much of the plot is corny.

[Kylie Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

was ok from memory - funny in places

[Adelle · Rating 1 out of 5]

Drivel

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5 stars