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Do You Take This Man?
One bride, two choices. What if...
Katie is getting married to Alec ... or is she?
Have you ever wondered ‘what if …’ you had made a different decision in life? Would another choice have taken you down a totally different path? Would life have been better or worse? Would you have ended up with someone different?
In Do You Take This Man? we follow Katie’s two lives and find out what happens to her if she says ‘I do’ and what happens if she stands up her groom.
In many ways, Katie’s two separate realities couldn’t be further apart. But we also see how there are some people and situations you can’t avoid, and that perhaps some things are meant to happen whatever choices you make in life.
Katie is getting married to Alec ... or is she?
Have you ever wondered ‘what if …’ you had made a different decision in life? Would another choice have taken you down a totally different path? Would life have been better or worse? Would you have ended up with someone different?
In Do You Take This Man? we follow Katie’s two lives and find out what happens to her if she says ‘I do’ and what happens if she stands up her groom.
In many ways, Katie’s two separate realities couldn’t be further apart. But we also see how there are some people and situations you can’t avoid, and that perhaps some things are meant to happen whatever choices you make in life.
- GenresChick Lit
434 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 8, 2014
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Sophie King
39 books44 followersI've written six novels, including the bestselling The School Run, and The Wedding Party, which was nominated for Love Story of the Year by the Romantic Novelists Association.
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November 6, 2022
This started out so well! Does Katie leave her fiancé at the alter or go through with it? Two different lives in the vein of Sliding Doors.
It unfortunately turned into quite a long and laborious read. What promised to be a cute chuck away romance turned into too many story lines and too much for one book. DNF ☹️
It unfortunately turned into quite a long and laborious read. What promised to be a cute chuck away romance turned into too many story lines and too much for one book. DNF ☹️
January 2, 2015
Review first posted on my blog: http://spoonfulofhappyendings.blogspo...
Katie is young and in love and about to marry her short-term boyfriend Alec. They haven't been together for a really long time, but marrying Alec feels like the right thing to do to Katie... Or doesn't it? As Katie is sitting in the wedding car, on the way to the church, she suddenly finds her hand on the door handle and she has to make a crucial decision that will alter the course of her entire life: should she stay and marry Alec, or should she go and run away from it all, start over? The reader gets the chance to see what will happen to Katie in both of these situations in the form of two separate realities, both starring Katie and the decisions she makes that affect her life in all kinds of different ways; ways that show that some things happen because of one simple choice and some things are simply meant to be.
I was really excited about this novel, because I've read some of Sophie King's other works, which I really enjoyed from start to finish. 'Do You Take This Man?' reminded me of Ali Harris' 'Written in the Stars' which tells the story of Bea Bishop who knocks her head on the day of her wedding and then imagines what would happen to her if she got married, but also what would happen if she ran away from it all. While the basic plotline of both novels is quite the same, Sophie King decided to take things a bit further by describing approximately twenty years of Katie's life; quite a long period in which the reader gets to see what happens to Katie after she made that one important decision: to get married to Alec or not.
I was really intrigued by the concept of this novel and by Katie's two different realities. Katie is a relatable heroine, especially since I think every single one of us occassionally wonders 'what if...' and in this novel the reader actually gets the chance to experience this 'what if.' I really liked how the author made certain elements come back in both realities, but also adding big differences, showing that some things are meant to be but some things happen made by just small decisions that might seem irrelevant. Like in her other novels, Sophie King provides the reader with a captivating storyline with a convincing cast of both main and secondary characters at its core. While I personally do not think this is one of Sophie's best works, it's definitely something new, enjoyable and worth a read. 'Do You Take This Man?' is a well-written, entertaining and thought-provoking read that will make you think twice about the 'what-if's' in your life.
Katie is young and in love and about to marry her short-term boyfriend Alec. They haven't been together for a really long time, but marrying Alec feels like the right thing to do to Katie... Or doesn't it? As Katie is sitting in the wedding car, on the way to the church, she suddenly finds her hand on the door handle and she has to make a crucial decision that will alter the course of her entire life: should she stay and marry Alec, or should she go and run away from it all, start over? The reader gets the chance to see what will happen to Katie in both of these situations in the form of two separate realities, both starring Katie and the decisions she makes that affect her life in all kinds of different ways; ways that show that some things happen because of one simple choice and some things are simply meant to be.
I was really excited about this novel, because I've read some of Sophie King's other works, which I really enjoyed from start to finish. 'Do You Take This Man?' reminded me of Ali Harris' 'Written in the Stars' which tells the story of Bea Bishop who knocks her head on the day of her wedding and then imagines what would happen to her if she got married, but also what would happen if she ran away from it all. While the basic plotline of both novels is quite the same, Sophie King decided to take things a bit further by describing approximately twenty years of Katie's life; quite a long period in which the reader gets to see what happens to Katie after she made that one important decision: to get married to Alec or not.
I was really intrigued by the concept of this novel and by Katie's two different realities. Katie is a relatable heroine, especially since I think every single one of us occassionally wonders 'what if...' and in this novel the reader actually gets the chance to experience this 'what if.' I really liked how the author made certain elements come back in both realities, but also adding big differences, showing that some things are meant to be but some things happen made by just small decisions that might seem irrelevant. Like in her other novels, Sophie King provides the reader with a captivating storyline with a convincing cast of both main and secondary characters at its core. While I personally do not think this is one of Sophie's best works, it's definitely something new, enjoyable and worth a read. 'Do You Take This Man?' is a well-written, entertaining and thought-provoking read that will make you think twice about the 'what-if's' in your life.
January 3, 2015
*Book provided by the a publisher in exchange for an honest review*
This book sounded great, like my kind of thing! Unfortunately I turned out to be disappointing, let me explain why.
The story follows Katie, who is unsure whether to marry Alec or not. When it comes to the wedding day the story splits into two parts. Katie marrying him and Cat (Katie changing her name) running away. I think that’s a really great idea, so the reader gets both sides, what happened in her life marrying Alec or the other version with her starting a life without Alec. I enjoyed it in the beginning, but the more the story continued the more got added and it was too much in my opinion. The characters were the same, with her meeting them at different stages of her life. It got a bit confusing and it kind of stopped the flow. It also moved forward really fast, with getting pregnant, having more children, them growing up etc.
That felt a little unnatural to me.
There were a lot of characters involved, a lot of them not properly lined out. Katie and Cat were described in a good way, but I couldn’t relate to either of them, which made it hard to understand her and her decisions. I couldn’t understand some of her actions.
There was a lot of drama included in this story, which I usually like a lot, but yet again it was kind of too much. A fire here, an accident there… It just didn’t make sense for me.
One thing I liked, was that it kept me guessing until the end. It could have turned out in different ways and that kept me I guess.
This book was definitely not for me, for several reasons and I can’t give more than 2 stars, unfortunately.
This book sounded great, like my kind of thing! Unfortunately I turned out to be disappointing, let me explain why.
The story follows Katie, who is unsure whether to marry Alec or not. When it comes to the wedding day the story splits into two parts. Katie marrying him and Cat (Katie changing her name) running away. I think that’s a really great idea, so the reader gets both sides, what happened in her life marrying Alec or the other version with her starting a life without Alec. I enjoyed it in the beginning, but the more the story continued the more got added and it was too much in my opinion. The characters were the same, with her meeting them at different stages of her life. It got a bit confusing and it kind of stopped the flow. It also moved forward really fast, with getting pregnant, having more children, them growing up etc.
That felt a little unnatural to me.
There were a lot of characters involved, a lot of them not properly lined out. Katie and Cat were described in a good way, but I couldn’t relate to either of them, which made it hard to understand her and her decisions. I couldn’t understand some of her actions.
There was a lot of drama included in this story, which I usually like a lot, but yet again it was kind of too much. A fire here, an accident there… It just didn’t make sense for me.
One thing I liked, was that it kept me guessing until the end. It could have turned out in different ways and that kept me I guess.
This book was definitely not for me, for several reasons and I can’t give more than 2 stars, unfortunately.
December 26, 2017
I very much enjoyed the book and the two what if's. I felt it could have been wrapped up a bit earlier, but that could just be me being distracted by other things at the end.
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