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A review by sbojo32
The Islanders by Meg Mitchell Moore
2.0
This was my second Meg Mitchell Moore book and I think that she's just not an author for me. The Islanders seemed to me like a wannabe Elin Hilderbrand book. It is set on Block Island, rather than Nantucket, but the island vibe is certainly part of the story. However, there seems to be a bit of island superiority ("as true islanders would know..." seems be a common phrase throughout the entire book) that was really off-putting to me.
The story takes place in alternating viewpoints, all of whom are keeping secrets. However, none of these secrets are these huge things that they couldn't tell who needed to be told and cut a solid 150 pages from this book. Lu is running a food blog in secret (the fact that she keeps it from her husband should say more about their relationship than anything else). Anthony is a writer with a secret, who decides he doesn't drink, until he does and then it's ok? His storyline was really far-fetched and predictable and I didn't really love any of it. Joy is trying to make it as a small business owner and single mom to teenage Maggie. She is constantly woe-is-me and again, doesn't know how to communicate. It's hard to see how "strong" she is when she can't even get people to sign a contract or have a supplier compensate her in some way when they fail to make a delivery.
By the time I got to the end, I was just waiting to be done. There was a name listed at the end in the newspaper and epilogue and I have no idea who it is and I couldn't handle trying to look back in the book (and it was a physical book, normally this laziness is saved for audio or ebooks) to figure out who this person was because I just didn't care. I asked the question in this forum, but if I couldn't remember the character, it must not have been important enough. I'll stick with Elin Hilderbrand.
The story takes place in alternating viewpoints, all of whom are keeping secrets. However, none of these secrets are these huge things that they couldn't tell who needed to be told and cut a solid 150 pages from this book. Lu is running a food blog in secret (the fact that she keeps it from her husband should say more about their relationship than anything else). Anthony is a writer with a secret, who decides he doesn't drink, until he does and then it's ok? His storyline was really far-fetched and predictable and I didn't really love any of it. Joy is trying to make it as a small business owner and single mom to teenage Maggie. She is constantly woe-is-me and again, doesn't know how to communicate. It's hard to see how "strong" she is when she can't even get people to sign a contract or have a supplier compensate her in some way when they fail to make a delivery.
By the time I got to the end, I was just waiting to be done. There was a name listed at the end in the newspaper and epilogue and I have no idea who it is and I couldn't handle trying to look back in the book (and it was a physical book, normally this laziness is saved for audio or ebooks) to figure out who this person was because I just didn't care. I asked the question in this forum, but if I couldn't remember the character, it must not have been important enough. I'll stick with Elin Hilderbrand.