For my tenth birthday, my grandmother and my mother decided to make a big birthday party. They did all by themselves, the food, the decorations, everything... My mother is a very talented woman and I mean this when I say that the decorations were beautiful, it was ballerina themed. Anyway, back then pictures were not digital and we had to use films and print the pictures. My aunt had just bought this very nice camera that could use a bigger film and so we would have more pictures, and my mother agreed and that made my aunt responsible for photography and registering the party. The party was beautiful and my mother and grandmother were very proud. But a few days later we found out that my aunt had forgotten to put the film inside the camera and so all the pictures taken during the party doesn't exist. We have nothing of that day besides 4 pictures that were taken by one uncle who took pictures of his son in front of the table with the decorations. There are no family pictures, or me with my friends or even just me, the birthday girl.

Now that's the kind of thing that happens. Stuff really do go wrong no matter how much plan and thought go into the event. But in the case of this book I gotta say that at some point, enough is enough. For a book so long it wasted too much of itself on things going wrong at the wedding instead of the characters, who had so much potential by the way. The family conflict and Charlie figuring out that life is not as we make it to be are two great and interesting plot points that I had to wait too long to get to it and then it went by a bit fast.

I feel like it would have been much better if the story was focused less in the wedding, 60% of that cut and it would make no difference on the plot and only make it flow easier. Such great characters that were not explored, which for me is a first in a Morgan Matson book. The strongest of the book is of course the family dynamic, that was pretty great. I just wish there had been more of it.