Save the Date by Morgan Matson
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I was given this ARC by the publisher in return for an honest review.
This was incredibly detailed and it took me more effort to stay focused on the story than any book I have read since “The Counsel of Elrond” in Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring. Sorry, but that chapter took me a month to get through; I kept falling asleep and the same was happening with this story (not that I’m trying to compare classic fantasy literature with contemporary young adult fiction).
I found the protagonist to be rather entitled and self-centred.
There isn’t really much else I can say about this story except that my attention kept drifting to other thoughts and concentrating on the plot was extremely difficult. Most of the time I felt like having to wade through everything that was dumped on the reader in order to find the actual story beneath the countless, oh so many unnecessary descriptions of things no one really cared about that much.
Overall, the story had the potential to be highly entertaining and sweet, but was lost along the way. I believe there are readers, who enjoy a story with lots and lots of details, so for them this might be a worthwhile read, but it wasn’t my cup of tea.
