Elin Hilderbrand

Gathering on Nantucket for a wedding planned to the letter by the bride's late mother, the Carmichaels and the Grahams hide their scandal-ridden, crumbling lives from the blissfully unaware, happy couple.

a novel

Beautiful day

Katie Squires

Not often do I finish a book and not like a single character but this one fits that bill. I couldn't get into anyone's story, obviously we hear the most from Margot and there are times I can sympathize with her. But overall every single one of them is selfish, whiny and miserable. 

It's mentioned several times that Jenna is eco-friendly and not a big spender but she her wedding costs around $175K?? Her brothers are pigs, both of them self-centered and chauvinistic. The groom's parents story is weird and not romantic at all. The bridesmaids are so sex-driven they can't see past their own selves. I feel a bit bad for Pauline but still couldn't stand her reading a notebook that was not hers.

And the notebook itself is a mess. I get Beth's intentions but she really had to tell her daughter what to put on a gift registry or where to honeymoon? I feel like it's a bit overbearing and had she been alive and said the same thing she would have been miserable. Having lost my own mom, I would love to have my mom's words on such a big occasion but generalizations not every detail planned for me.

Beautiful day a novel

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