Charlie Grant’s older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie can’t wait—for the first time in years, all four of her older siblings will be under one roof. Charlie is desperate for one last perfect weekend, before the house is sold and everything changes. The house will be filled with jokes and games and laughs again. Making decisions about things like what college to attend and reuniting with longstanding crush Jesse Foster—all that can wait. She wants to focus on making the weekend perfect.
The only problem? The weekend is shaping up to be an absolute disaster.
There’s the unexpected dog with a penchant for howling, house alarm that won’t stop going off, and a papergirl with a grudge.
There are the relatives who aren’t speaking, the (awful) girl her favorite brother brought home unannounced, and a missing tuxedo.
Not to mention the neighbor who seems to be bent on sabotage and a storm that is bent on drenching everything. The justice of the peace is missing. The band will only play covers. The guests are all crazy. And the wedding planner’s nephew is unexpectedly, distractingly…cute.
Over the course of three ridiculously chaotic days, Charlie will learn more than she ever expected about the family she thought she knew by heart. And she’ll realize that sometimes, trying to keep everything like it was in the past means missing out on the future.
Morgan Matson has always been one of my most favorite authors since I was in around 16 years old. Her books have made me laugh, cry and cringe. They are real and the characters are real people too. And this one was nothing different than the other ones I have read by her but I loved this one even more. There is something about Charlie and her large and extremely messy family that made me feel like I understood these characters on a whole different level.
Charlie and her siblings haven’t been in the same place at the same time in over a year, so when their sister Linnie gets engaged the whole family comes for one last hurrah in their childhood home. We meet the siblings, learn their stories and get to see so much more of the last gathering of the Grant family in their Stanwhich home.
This was the book I was looking forward to the most and let me say, it didn’t let me down at all. The Grant Family was my favorite, getting to know Charlie and her siblings and understand their dynamic. The story was very much character driven in my opinion, which is something I loved. We saw so much development in every character.
I related to Charlie in her fear of change, I hate change so much that I would rather stay somewhere I am unhappy but used to than go somewhere new and be happy sometimes. I have learnt and grown but the fear of change is visceral.
When I read books, I don’t usually think about having tabs on hand but when I was reading Save The Date it was important to me because I wish I had tabs when I had read the other books by Morgan. This one was different, there was something about Charlie and her family that made me want to hold them near and dear to me and never let go. While I only have one sibling, I have many cousins who are all married with their own children and we hang out all together a lot and it feels like one big family.
I liked how the book wasnt romance focused, but there were romantic moments between Charlie and Bill that made me swoon so hard.
Morgan Matson is the queen of summer contemporary novels and I can’t wait to see what she comes out with next!
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