The Marriage of Innis Wilkinson by Lauren H. Brandenburg -- Review

About the Book

It is said that something magical happens during the festival season in Coraloo, something unexplainable. People tend to be a little crazier, reckless. Maybe it's because it coincides the full moon, but Coraloo's constable, Roy Blackwell, is beginning to think it's something else. That said, Roy has other things on his mind, like marrying Margarette Toft. A controversial decision as the Toft and the Blackwell families have a hatred for one another that is older than the town itself. Tradition collides with superstition as the feuding families compete to organize the events surrounding the most talked about wedding in the history of Coraloo. Despite the array of minor catastrophes that ensue, and the timings clashing with a four-week long festival celebrating a legendary beaver, Roy and Margarette hold fast and declare they will do whatever it takes to wed. That is until Roy unearths a town secret - a murder involving a pair of scissors, an actor with a severe case of kleptomania, and the mysterious marriage of Innis Wilkinson. Can good come out of unearthing the past - or will only heartbreak follow?

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About the Author

Lauren H. Brandenburg is a mentor, speaker, and author who happily blurs the lines between traditional genres in both middle grade and humorous family fiction. She has currently written six of the ten books in The Books of the Gardener Series--Orlo: The Chosen (#4) was a finalist for the Selah Award middle grade novel of the year. The Death of Mungo Blackwell, a humorous family fiction (Lion Hudson publishing) was longlisted for the People's Book Prize in the United Kingdom and won the ACFW award for contemporary fiction. Lauren is a former junior high and high school English teacher who stepped away from her profession to raise and homeschool her two children. She currently lives with her husband, Jamie, and their children in a lovely little town just south of Nashville, Tennessee where they eat and laugh a lot.

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Review

Written in a captivating third person narrative, author Lauren H. Brandenburg has written a charming and humorous story of a wedding and feuding families and deep-rooted traditions all tied up in the history of Coraloo.  The author creates ridiculous situations that are delightfully quirky, bringing to life the city of Coraloo and the more-than-meets-the-eye character Margarette Toft and Roy Blackwell.  This story will definitely keep readers laughing at the outrageousness of Roy and Margarette’s insistence of getting married no matter what it takes.  This story is one that readers will thoroughly laugh through and enjoy.
 
Genre: contemporary, humorous
Publisher: Lion Fiction
Publication date: 272
Number of pages: October 23, 2020
 
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