The personal struggles Charlie was facing at watching her family together for what seems like one last time, when they’ve been and are continually geographically growing apart further as each member lives their own lives, will make you realise that we must adapt to change and move on from what we’re comfortable with sometimes. What also made this book so enjoyable to read was that unlike most contemporaries, while this novel dabbles into it, romance is certainly not at the forefront. I stared at the beagle, who was sitting in the centre of the front hall, staring steadily back at me…. This isn’t good. Each disaster is either outrageous and stressful or the best kind of comic relief, a balance that Matson has definitely as the crowned queen of summer contemporary reads. Not to mention that this book is ridiculously funny and bound to have you laughing within the first hundred pages. Unexpected guests, animals, frequent unwanted alarms, and gigantic mix ups make this weekend jam-packed with everything, and it created a fast paced, energetic story that will have you flying through this book. As an only child, reading the experience of having a huge family right out of the Cheaper by the Dozen movie is almost surreal and appealing. The story, the characters, the action, and how they are both described and created makes you figuratively fall in love with this family. This novel is the first of many books to read by Morgan Matson because I’ve found this book exceptional.
Meanwhile, she’s also trying to manage romantically reuniting with her long time high school crush Jesse and deciding on what college to attend in the next few months. However, at each and every turn there seems to be a disaster in the way of her plan. In this story, she’s trying to keep Linnie’s wedding to Rodney from falling apart as constant disasters await them.īeing the youngest, Charlie has watched her own siblings grow up and move out of home and desperately wants to make this weekend the best since this is the first time in years that everyone will be under the same roof, including her favourite brother Danny. The youngest, brightest and protagonist in this novel is Charlie who is constantly helping her parents and siblings in any way. Welcome to the family behind ‘Grant Central Station’Ī big family made up of the parents, Jeffrey and Eleanor with the latter being the author and artist behind a popular comic strip based on their lives including that of their many children (in descending order): Danny, Linnie, JJ, Mike and lastly Charlie.
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