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Save the Date Kindle Edition

by Carrie Aarons (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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You know that pact you make with your childhood best friend of the opposite sex? The one where, if you’re both still single, lonely and hopeless at thirty, you’ll marry each other?

This is the story about what happens when you hit the big three-oh and have to make good on that pinky promise.

Personally, I think love, romance and all of that nonsense is a crock of, well, you know. And Reese Collins, the boy who used to put worms in my hair at backyard barbecues, knows that better than anyone.

But when he moves to the same city I’ve happily, and singly, inhabited for years, memories of oaths past resurface. Reese is like a dog with a bone; a really hot dog and that bone just happens to be me.

He won’t stop hounding me, and the crazy thing is, my frigid, traitorous heart is starting to cave. For my best friend.

It seems so far off, when you’re a kid playing Monopoly in your treehouse. But when that clock strikes midnight on your thirtieth birthday, and you’re standing alone in front of a grocery store-bought cupcake, a childhood deal to walk down the aisle doesn’t seem so silly anymore.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07DYVSBLL
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2417 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 226 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B08WZFPMVP

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Author of romance novels such as Fleeting and Love at First Fight, Carrie Aarons writes books that are just as swoon-worthy as they are sarcastic. Her stories are fueled by vanilla lattes, meloncholy music, and copious amounts of candles.

When she isn't writing, Carrie is busy binging reality TV, having a love/hate relationship with cardio, and trying not to burn dinner. She lives in farm country with her husband, two children and ninety-pound rescue pup.  

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Kassandra Carter

Love Carrie Aarons

Reviewed in Australia on 20 July 2021

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I love how her books are more about the relationships and sweet moments and not just the smut it’s reading gold, sweet and innocent and romantic and just the right amount of sexy smut. This is the second Carrie Aarons book I have read and am fats becoming a big fan

Reviewed in Australia on 24 June 2018

This is the first time I have read a book written by Carrie and after reading the blurb on Save The Date I was really looking forward to reading this one. I really wanted to love it but it didn’t quite hit the mark for me unfortunately. I didn’t connect to Erin at all. I liked Reese however. There are a few things within the story that didn’t really work on a whole for me. I won’t say which things didn’t click for me as I don’t want to give away any spoilers to the story.

Erin is a fashion blogger who made a pact at 15 with her male best friend. Reese is a male nurse working in NICU. I loved this about Reese! What a fantastic job. Erin and Reese connected on a friendship level but that was were it stopped for me. I didn’t feel that burning love, I didn’t feel the angst or anticipation of what was going to happen between them. They did make perfect best friends.

I thought most of the banter between the characters was funny. I caught myself smiling a few times during some of Reese’s antics. The book was quick and easy to read, I was able to read it within a few hours. Overall it was a moderate read for me. I’d like to look in on Carrie’s other work to see if I connect to another one of her stories a little better than I did with this one. I received an early copy of this book. The comments above are my own.

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Angie Flanagan

I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH

Reviewed in Australia on 24 June 2018

I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH!! I can't stop saying that!! I loved it so much!!

I really enjoyed her writing style, the characters, the build up, the twist, the humour, the emotions, the EVERYTHING!

Erin and Reese make a pact that when they reach 30, if they're not married to other people by then, they will marry each other. Reese and Erin meet up again close to their birthdays as Reese may be coming back home!!

Erin is beside herself with worry, as she knows Reese won't forget their promise to each other. She is freaking out!! Reese doesn't mention the pact right away when they meet up for dinner. He makes her sweat it out a bit. LOL!

When it's finally said out loud, Erin is like NOPE not gonna do it!! NOPE. NO WAY. Not happening. Can Reese bring her around? Can he show her his true feelings toward her since they were young, and not push her away?

Can Erin realise her true feelings for him once she gets past the fact that she has to uphold her part of the bargain with Reese?

About halfway through, Erin did get on my nerves a bit, cause she couldn't make her mind up. I was like OMG!! ERIN, REESE IS A GREAT GUY. Just let your walls down and go for it!

I also loved the Marvel reference in the book as well!

I really did enjoy this book so much, and the story of Erin and Reese, and their relationship! So funny!! I laughed, I cried, I cried from laughing, and felt everything that they felt.

Some of my fave quotes from the book

1. When Jill and Erin are doing Instagram stories.....you know, basic bitch kind of stuff. - Cracked me up!!!

2. He was mysterious, and my lady parts responded. Now, just because I don't believe in love doesn't mean I don't believe in a good roll in the sack. - Erin when she sees a hottie at the bar. LOL!!

3. I could be her plus one for life, if she'd let me. - When Reese finally confesses his feelings for Erin to himself. *SWOON*

4. Katie Raymer walked by my desk, and I already wanted to throat punch her. - I laughed so hard at this, because I say this all the time!! LOL! I died laughing!

5. I felt it. The spark. - YES!! FINALLY!!!!

6. A little jolt of electricity travels right down to South Florida. - I lost it with this one! LOL!!!

7. And just like that, he turns, leaving me standing amongst the janitor's supplies, with blue balls, and more emotional anxiety than I came in here with. - ROFL!!! Erin had some fun in the closet and didn't get exactly what she thought she was going to get.

8. "But don't do the alphabet trick. Never do that." - When Reese finds out the alphabet trick never works!!! And even his social lacking friend knows this!

9. He's using his cockpower over me. - LOVED IT!! Erin knows she's done for by now, and gives into everything with Reese.

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Brie Burg CCBH

Sweet and romantic!

Reviewed in the United States on 24 June 2018

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Save the Date is Carrie Aarons' take on the marriage of convenience trope, delivering this romantic comedy in the form of a fifteen year marriage pact made between two bestfriends.

Erin Carter is the Peas to Reese Collins' Carrots. An editorial director by day and a lifestyle blogger by the shadows of the night. She's impersonal and dispassionate, honest and blunt, but mostly cynical when it comes to love. But she's also strong and reserves her vulnerabilities for certain people, sassy when it counts, and independent to the core.

Reese Collins, the Carrots in this bowl is a NICU nurse. Yes, not only is he tall with dark features, and a lone dimple, he's basically the guardian of tiny people and could charm the pants off anyone within a ten mile radius. He's also harboring some deep rooted feelings for little miss anti-love and has a bit of a co-dependency problem when it comes to dating...

Maybe. Or maybe, just maybe he was bidding his time and this 'marry me if we're still single at thirty' was all a ruse. A smoke and mirrors act that Reese has perfected in order to get the girl of his dreams, the Peas to his Carrots.

Erin didn't make it easy for Reese though. She didn't roll over and fall deeply in love with him just because he started to pursue her. Carrie slowly unraveled Erin's character's skepticism about marriage and the entire time Reese didn't waver. He was persistent in cracking the fog covered glass of her disilliusionments about love and doubts about him.

Though a bit slow to dive into the plot fully which might pose issues for some, Save the Date was a sensuous, slow burning, yet brazen bestfriends to lovers romance that I didn't want to end and I don't want to forget! Save the Date is low on the angst and high on the giggles, delivers a quick resolution with a happily ever after, and my first, but not last novel by Carrie Aarons.

Not just witty, but quickwitted, sweet and romantic, Save the Date is simply entertaining and full of back and forth bantering, innuendos, awkwardly humorous encounters with just as many lighthearted priceless moments as there are moments to fall in love and heavily swoon over!

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The Pact!

Reviewed in the United States on 24 June 2018

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Reese works as a neonatal intensive care nurse in Dallas but now that his 30th birthday is approaching he is moving back to Philadelphia to collect on the pact that he made with his best friend which they made when they were 15 that if they weren’t married to other people they would marry each other. He has always loved her and he is determined to show her that they belong together.

Erin Carter is an editorial director/lifestyle blogger who has given up on the idea of love. She has never managed to find the lasting kind for herself and after her parent’s divorce she knows that when love ends the results are painful and far reaching.

Erin has no intention of following through with the pact and Reese is going to have to pull out all the stops to convince her to even give a date a try let alone agree to a lifelong commitment.

This is a sweet romance filled with emotion, heat and humor that will make you believe in love again.

Nancy Reads

Best Friends to Married Best Friends!?!

Reviewed in the United States on 24 June 2018

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SAVE THE DATE usually means a couple will be getting married soon, and there is an actual wedding date. Not so much in the case of Reese Collins and Erin Carter. They have been best of friends since they were kids. Even though they could not have been more different, yet it hadn't mattered they were best friends with a lasting bond they had created.

Reese and Erin had made a marriage pact at the young age of fifteen. Their birthdays were two weeks and 5 days apart. They had promised that when they turned thirty, if neither were married to other people, then they would get married to each other. When Reese called to announce he was moving back to Philadelphia, and had been offered a job as a neonatal nurse in a near by hospital. Erin wondered if since their thirtieth birthdays were drawing near, if Reese was coming back to collect on promises past.

Since Erin's parents had announced their divorce a couple of years ago, and it had been messy and mean. It had destroyed any small hope Erin had ever had in the emotion of love. After her parent's divorce, that outside shell around her heart hardened to the point of steel-reenforced concrete. She even admitted to being a colder person than most. She was inexcusably judgmental before she was kind. Her core sometimes seems poisoned. I admit that as a reader I found her character hard to like. But Reese Collins was a male nurse in a neonatal department of the hospital. And spent all his working hours saving sick babies. Who would not want to marry Reese??
If you guess it was Erin you are right!

Reese is a determined man, who returned to Philadelphia with a plan. And if that includes tricking his childhood best friend, and lifetime crush, into marrying him, he was all in. This was a well written story, with both humor and emotion. I enjoyed it very much, and it had such a good ending, I almost “liked” Erin when the book was done.

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Chelsea

No hook

Reviewed in the United States on 24 May 2021

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Love the author but feel like there isn't much of a story grabber so it is taking me a lot longer get than it has to get through it because it's not grabbing my attention. Really just want to finish it so I can move on to her book Verity.

McLean’s

I LOVE THIS AUTHOR

Reviewed in the United States on 19 March 2021

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I already recommended a previous book (Fool Me Twice) by this author to two of my friends and they both finished it within 48 hours. This is the next book I have recommended to them... they are both looking forward to my next recommendation by this author following their completion of this book. This book is a more grown up version of Fool Me Twice. I once again appreciated this author’s offering of dual perspective throughout this book. Looking forward to my next read by Carrie!

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