Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 Four Weddings and a Sixpence is super comforting. It's a collection of four novellas, all Regency romances, all remarkably angst-free. Five minutes after reading each story I had already forgotten all about it, but I remembered my enjoyment while reading it. 
 The novellas are held together by a framing story written by Julia Quinn. In 1817, four girls who are attending Madame Rochambeaux's Gentle School for Girls find a sixpence in the mattress. The girls (Bea, Cordelia, Ellie, and Anne) decide to keep it for good luck when they recall the rhyme "Something borrowed, something blue, something old, and something new, and a sixpence in her shoe." This sixpence, they decide, will bring each of them a husband. Since Anne has to marry before she turns twenty-one, she gets to use it first, with the stipulation that if she does get married, she will pass the sixpence to Cordelia who will pass it on to Ellie who will pass it on to the intensely skeptical Bea. 
 All in all, I give this collection a B- with the caveat that your enjoyment of it will depend on your mood and your catnip. Because the stories are all short, they don't get much time for things to develop. The plots are all somewhat implausible and the stories lack the kind of emotional weight that make then stick in the mind. 
 However, the stories are also sweet, funny, and heartfelt. Their very shortness and lightness make them perfect for a stressful time (like, oh say, the end of December, when I personally tend to lose my mind in a pile of discarded wrapping paper). Also, the friendship between the women is delightful. I would happily have read a book about the girls going to boarding school, without the adult romances. 
 - Carrie S.