The People We Hate At the Wedding by Grant Ginder

I believe that I picked this up off the "sale" shelf at Barnes and Noble.  You know, the one where the not-so-recently released hardcovers are marked down to $6.  As a general rule I peruse this shelf whenever I am in B&N.  You can often pick up an older Balducci or Grisham etc. etc. for dirt cheap and if you didn't read the book when it was "hot", you can read it now.  They also mix these "popular writer" overstocks with unknowns and with those, its really a crap shoot.  Some are good, some are bad, most are worth the mush reduced hardcover price tag assuming you don't mind dropping the occasional $30 to get 5 or 6 books which may or may not include a hidden gem.  I don't know that I'd call this one of those but I liked it well enough.  The premise is that a brother and sister are invited to their older, more successful, half sister's wedding to which neither one actually has an desire to go.  The book opens with them snarkily reviewing the wedding invitation and trying to figure out how much she spent.  It was a scene right out of real life.  The story plays out in the weeks leading up and and including the wedding.  Travel, animosity, family secrets...its all there.   

A quoteable quote from the book from their mother's words of wisdom to her kids:  "Never expect someone to change, because he won't.  If you don't love someone at his worst, you shouldn't bother loving him at all."  That seems pretty right on to me.  The whole book was kind of like that-sentiments that struck a chord but not great writing and nothing that would call for a movie to be made from it.  But enjoyable enough.

Rating:  #5 Good Enough.