I went into this book prepared to put it down halfway through because this is a story that has been told before...Friend A gets into a tight situation, goes to a wonderful home in a magical setting to lick her wounds and reunites with an old friend & comes upon a romance along the way.
While this book does follow a certain formula set by other books, the story was somewhatly fresh and I enjoyed the characters and didn't even think about putting the book down halfway through.
Summary: Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing - because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars.
Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie's had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can't offer complete escape, and they're plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie's brother Toby - Meredith's high school boyfriend - arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had.
Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness.
This story was a success for me because it told the story from two perspectives. Our main character (Meredith) and her BFF (Connie). Each has her own skeletons to deal with and subsequently their own storylines for us to follow and it was nice. There were times that Meredith got a little tedious with her lamenting over how she had no idea of how much her husband was (but if she would have thought about it then it really seems like a no brainer), so it was nice to have Connie balance the story out.
While the story was kind of predictable, I didn't mind it. There was enough side story going on that it distracted me from focusing on how I knew what was going to happen next. And there were some parts where I wasn't sure how the story was going to end up...so that was fun to try and figure out.
The book feels a little deeper than your standard chick-lit book...but it still is a good, mindless read. One of the things that I really enjoyed about this book is that I really have become interested in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme story. Obviously his wife, Ruth, has gone through a similar story as Meredith...with people wondering if she played a role in Madoff's scandal, how her relationship with her sons was affected, and how she dealt with the aftermath. Should a reputable story about Bernie Madoff ever come out, I would snap it up in a second. The man screwed up a lot of lives and to know the inner workings of what lead him to do something like that is definitely intriguing.
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