amanda884's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Abortion
oliviacarew's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content and Death of parent
Minor: Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Cancer
franschulman9's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Sexual content
samieron97's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Cancer
kaylinvm94's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Sexual content
Minor: Abortion
kdailyreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
The performance of Sutton Foster on the audiobook narration, I would give 4-5 stars! Definitely increased my enjoyment of this novel.
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Grief, Abandonment, Car accident, Death of parent, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Sexual content
Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, and Antisemitism
lexa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
You might like it if you are into multi-generational stories with lots of characters, multiple points of view, big drama around every corner, and so. many. coincidences.
Graphic: Infidelity
Moderate: Sexual content, Cancer, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Abortion
olivia_goode's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Also Sam and have hooking up… not about it. He’s also only with Julie because she’s like sad? I hated this tbh.
Also the house being “alive”… not into it.
Moderate: Sexual content
kentuckybooklover's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Cancer, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Sexual content
Minor: Abortion
savvyrosereads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Rating: 4.5/5 stars
Told in multiple POVs, The Summer Place weaves together a story of the secrets, dreams, and lives of an extended family and the summer house on Cape Cod that brings them all together for a wedding weekend that promises to be full of both drama and, perhaps, healing.
Have you ever read a book and come across passages that make you feel grateful you read them? I’m talking about the moments where it hits you that if you hadn’t picked up *this* specific book, out of all the millions of books out there in the world, you would never have encountered these specific words arranged in this specific way and you would be fundamentally worse off as the result of an error you’d never know you made?
Maybe that’s too existential for a book review, but it sums up how I feel about The Summer Place. From the opening pages, where Weiner introduces us to the house-as-narrator and I started to tear up, I knew that this was a special book, and ultimately I was proven right. As an aspiring author myself, Veronica’s backstory spoke to me so much, and each of the characters touched my heart in their own unique way. There was a fair amount of exposition, and a lot of characters and plot threads to keep track of, but I was ultimately so impressed by the way everything wove together, and once I got a handle on the large cast I never felt like the plot was too slow or too confusing. If you’re looking for a gorgeously written and unique summer read with a lot of heart, look no further.
Recommended to anyone, but especially if you like: inter-generational family stories; multiple POVs; summer settings.
CW: Death of a parent; infidelity; terminal illness/cancer.
Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Infidelity, and Sexual content
Moderate: Abandonment and Car accident