{"id":3848,"date":"2014-06-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2014-06-24T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:37:10","slug":"chapel-wars-by-lindsey-leavitt-book-review-las-vegas-love-and-rival-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3848","title":{"rendered":"Chapel Wars, by Lindsey Leavitt (book review) – Las Vegas, love, and rival families"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Drunken brides,
\nElvis performing the ceremony<\/a>,
\nmust be Vegas!<\/p>\n

Holly loves the wedding chapel<\/a> that she inherits, but her late Grandpa’s hidden debts and his stipulation that she befriend the (so handsome) grandson of their arch-rival chapel owner… what’s a girl to do?<\/p>\n

This novel is a twist on the expected Romeo and Juliet scenario, with the addition of divorced parents, teens concocting strategies to help the “wrong” chapel get more business, and all the wackiness of Las Vegas leading up to Valentine’s Day.<\/p>\n

What’s the craziest wedding you’ve ever attended?<\/p>\n

**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: The Chapel Wars \/ Lindsey Leavitt. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: It’s up to 16 year old Holly to save her family’s wedding chapel from the wrecking ball, with or without the help of their arch-rival’s adorable grandson – only in Vegas!<\/p>\n

Holly has always loved the hopeful possibilities in a wedding – must be why Grandpa Jim willed the Rose of Sharon Chapel to her. But he also left her a huge debt which must be paid in full soon and a letter addressed to Dax, whose sneering granddad owns the rival wedding chapel next door!<\/p>\n

Having Dax so near makes it hard for Holly to concentrate on what’s important – saving the chapel, getting her just-divorced parents back together, keeping the peace with her older sister and volatile younger brother.<\/p>\n

As the loan payment day nears, Dax, Holly, and all her friends go all-out to get new business for the chapel. Maybe there’s hope after all. Maybe there’s hope for Holly and Dax, too! (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drunken brides, Elvis performing the ceremony, must be Vegas! Holly loves the wedding chapel that she inherits, but her late Grandpa’s hidden debts and his stipulation that she befriend the (so handsome) grandson of their arch-rival chapel owner… what’s a girl to do? This novel is a twist on the expected Romeo and Juliet scenario, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[22,4,202,11,45,20,5,37,16,87,18,40,44,46,43,39,49,212,132,15,21,35,3,8],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-blogathon2014","tag-communication","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-divorce","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-nevada","tag-personal-finance","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4194,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}