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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
This was great for lounging on the beach or napping on a rainy day! But she has evolved into a completely different kind of writer and this one is sort of less, having read those.
Very good summer read. Think I need to visit Nantucket someday.
this is my second book by this author and i have been very pleased. Maybe it's because they seem like "beach reads" since they take place on nantucket, and it' summer. But they just really struck a chord in me. I find the characters honest and relatable. Love them or hate them you at least get a sense of them. I like that so far she has "happy" endings, in that everything is resolved and usually satisfactorily. I haven't found myself staying up late to finish a book in awhile and I look forward to her other books to see if I will do the same. I will be staring the Island soon....
This book surprised me. I'm not sure why my expectations weren't very high, but this was, in fact, a perfect vacation read. Lovely to read a book with such well-drawn characters and twists and turns that I did not expect. Fun read.
I was expecting to find this book flat, like Barefoot, but ended up pleasantly surprised! I knew this wouldn't be a book that radically changed my life... It was still a good summer read, light and easy. The story had it's dark parts, but I like how Hildebrand worked the characters through their struggles. I'm glad I decided to pick up this book.
Great summer read! I read it over the 4th of July weekend and really enjoyed the characters. My favorite character was Meredith. Would recommend it to anyone who is going to the beach and looking for a good book to read!
good, frothy, summer beach-read. I would say it was somewhat predictable and formulaic but that's what makes it a 'good, frothy, summer beach-read', right? I like that it was 'lifted' from the Bernie Madoff scandal and it gave a nice examination of what his wife might have been going through - the biggest take-away being that people hear about a scandal and make assumptions about the people involved. So in the Madoff scandal, everyone who didn't actually 'know' Mrs. Madoff but had heard about the ponzi scheme thought they 'knew' who and what she was and what she must have been thinking all those years - but they really didn't - they made assumptions about her and her life (for better or worse - probably mostly worse). The other interesting, and related point, is that people think they know the people they love - like because they've been together for so long or are 'soul mates' that they have full knowledge of the partner, when, in reality, everyone has that part of themselves that they might not show to anyone - things that make you go hmmmmm!
Good. Kinda predicted the outcome, but still a worth while read. Always love this author.
Finally finished my last summer reading book a year later. A nice story about friendship in the face of one's complete life disaster. Without a friend sometimes when we have a big disappointment we might really fall very low.