A review by dianametzger
The Beach Club by Elin Hilderbrand

3.0

Her first book so I have to judge on a different scale but woof this book is kind of a mess. Obviously love that this starts off her writing fixation on Nantucket and she has a great sense of place in her writing but there are so many characters and none of them feel remotely real or believable. There’s bizarrely a gun that never goes off—so Chekhov’s rule is wrong huh? There’s also some weird unintentional racist shit and domestic abuse that’s normalized. All the characters were just deeply odd and all their decisions felt nonsensical.