No one acknowledges her pain, and that didn’t sit well with me. Her mother, knowing fully how upset her daughter is, gives her a lecture about how she hates change and will just have to get used to the new situation – that made me legitimately angry. Sure, Charlie has to adjust to her new circumstances, but no one ever gives her a chance to process things. Charlie is extremely hurt by the realization that the family she adores so much is breaking apart – that she’s going off to college without anything to come home to – but everyone in the book seems to brush her pain off.
When *SPOILER* we discover, near the end of the book, that Charlie’s parents, a seemingly perfect couple, are divorcing, the book begins to feel as if it ignores the elephant in the room.
It felt emotionally dead, and I know this is sort of intentional, but the ending sort of undid the comedic tone of the beginning of the book.
Something about the last half of the book was just…empty. It’s a fun concept, and for the most part, it’s well-executed. Add in high-profile family appearances celebrating the end of “Grant Central Station,” a cartoon that the Grants’ mother has written for over two decades, and wedding week is bound for heaps of comedic drama. And, in typical YA-novel fashion, the wedding plans adhere unerringly to Murphy’s Law: everything that can go catastrophically wrong, will. The event takes on new urgency when her parents decide to sell the house. The youngest, Charlie, is a high school senior, eagerly anticipating the wedding of her older sister Linnie at their childhood home. It was a fun, nostalgic story about the Grants, a big, boisterous family of five grown children (who happen to be the subjects of a world-famous newspaper cartoon created by their mother). “Save the Date” started off so promising.
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