My least favorite of all of Elin’s books. When people label her as a “beach read” and write her off as not being deep (which I don’t agree with, I think she’s a wonderful author and a master of the craft of characters), this is the book they’re thinking of. I know most of her books have wealthy characters with not a lot going for them, but this one just took the cake!!! I usually like an unlikable character, because it makes them real, but these unlikeable characters had no redeeming real qualities.

I will say, I’m also very anti-wedding. I eloped myself because I feel like the business of weddings is overdone and we don’t prioritize preparing for marriage over a wedding, so this may have swayed a lot of my opinion. But I’d be pissed it my mom died and all she cared about was leaving me instructions for me wedding. Like come on, how superficial can you BE?! And a lot of the wedding advice was just so dumb. 

Hotel Nantucket, 28 Summers, 5 Star Weekend, all had petty wealthy characters but I just thought they were done well and really flushed out and showed true development, which is what I feel like Beautiful Day is missing.