The Five-Star Weekend
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket: After tragedy strikes, food blogger Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket.
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Readers say *The Five-Star Weekend* offers a vivid Nantucket setting and explores themes of grief, friendship, and midlife challenges amid affluent li...
5.5⭐️ - rounded down for Goodreads
I feel bad rating this what I am because it's an easy, beach style read that was for a more mature audience, but the story development was weak and it really dragged on for me. I have mixed feelings about third person omnicisent and in this case, although nice that we know what's going on with each of our characters, it was annoying as hell for me because I constantly felt like nothing was happening. Things did pick up towards the end but unfortunately I was happier it was over than I was with the actual outcomes. I did want to see what happened though because I was fairly invested and I wanted to watch the Peacock series that just came out so I was willing to stick with it. Ultimately the part that bothered me most was what happened with Gigi and I really wished things would've played out differently.
PEACOCK ADAPTATION NOTE: I ended up watching the show almost immediately after finishing the book and I would actually say I liked the show more. I thought the casting was impeccable and a lot of the pieces I didn't like the outcome for within the book, played out differently in the series. There were, of course, aspects that were changed for the purpose of the screen that I'm not sure if I agreed with completely but overall I thought it did a great job of bringing this one to life in a postive way.
Erin Hilderbrand is one of my favorite authors so her books always get 5 stars from me. But this book really made me reflect on my past friendships and how each person came into my life when I needed them the most. A few I don't keep in touch with but I know they would drop everything if I needed them. I think all women need different friends for different reasons.
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