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hannahs_library__'s review
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
- 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
Not me literally wanting to uproot my entire life and go run a luxury hotel in Nantucket. (I have no professional hospitality experience. ✨)
My mama is a HUGE Elin Hildebrand fan so when I read The Perfect Couple a few years ago and wasn’t obsessed, she was pretty sad. I promised her I would give Elin one last chance and so I found myself packing her copy of The Hotel Nantucket in my suitcase for our family summer vacation.
Long story short, I couldn’t put the book down and now get the Elin hype... 🙈
Read this if you like:
- Beach reads 🏖️
- Mystery subplot
- Multiple POVs that all come together in the end 🎀
- Drama and scandals ☕
- Nantucket
- Descriptive writing
- Haunted hotels 👻 (not spooky)
There was so much going on in this book and I was SO entertained. Immediately, Elin introduces an entire cast of characters. We meet main character Elizabeth (Lizbet) Keaton, the island’s sweetheart, and follow her as she is named the new general manager of the local abandoned gilded age hotel bought by an overseas investor. Lizbet is determined to successfully re-launch the Hotel Nantucket and earn a 5 star review from renowned, and anonymous, travel influencer Shelly Carpenter.
I will be the first to admit that I was fully expecting to be bored. Once I got past the initial overwhelming amount of characters, I got sucked in and couldn’t stop reading!! The writing, the different POVs, the descriptions of the island and the food, the characters, the drama, I was eating it all up. The way all the subplots tied together in a perfect bow at the end was so much fun. Someone please explain why I was tearing up at the end of a book about a hotel! 🏨
I had such a fun time with this book and think it was the perfect vacation/ beach read. Sometimes it pays off to give authors a second chance (and to listen to your mom). 🙂
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Fire/Fire injury
dogoodwithbooks's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This is the first time I've read Elin Hilderbrand's work and I was thoroughly impressed. In The Hotel Nantucket, we get to see a cast of characters working for the new Hotel Nantucket during the Summer of 2022. Each of the characters' plots are intertwined in a sense, but the main focus of the story is Lizbet Keaton rebuilding herself through the hotel after she caught her long-time boyfriend cheating on her the summer prior and Grace Hadley, a chambermaid from the Hotel's glory days in the 1920s before she died in a hotel fire a hundred years ago.
Even for someone who's never been to Nantucket, Hilderbrand brings the island alive in this engaging read. From the detailed descriptors on various aspects of the island to inside commentary from Nantucket residents on the various events from the book to Hilderbrand even concluding The Hotel Nantucket with the well-mentioned Blue Book that each guest of the Hotel Nantucket received during their stay, readers will be fully immersed into the life of Nantucket during their summer season.
I also like Hilderbrand's decision to focus on an ensemble cast to serve as narrators in The Hotel Nantucket. Not only does this provide various aspects of the hospitality industry on display, but it also provides an interesting dynamic to the plot when you get to see how each of the different characters view the events of the book as they are happening. While not all of the characters are featured as heavily or shown a decent amount of development/growth, this ensemble cast is worth the read.
For anyone wanting a book that does over working in hospitality with a close-knit community and ensemble cast, you are going to enjoy The Hotel Nantucket.
Even for someone who's never been to Nantucket, Hilderbrand brings the island alive in this engaging read. From the detailed descriptors on various aspects of the island to inside commentary from Nantucket residents on the various events from the book to Hilderbrand even concluding The Hotel Nantucket with the well-mentioned Blue Book that each guest of the Hotel Nantucket received during their stay, readers will be fully immersed into the life of Nantucket during their summer season.
I also like Hilderbrand's decision to focus on an ensemble cast to serve as narrators in The Hotel Nantucket. Not only does this provide various aspects of the hospitality industry on display, but it also provides an interesting dynamic to the plot when you get to see how each of the different characters view the events of the book as they are happening. While not all of the characters are featured as heavily or shown a decent amount of development/growth, this ensemble cast is worth the read.
For anyone wanting a book that does over working in hospitality with a close-knit community and ensemble cast, you are going to enjoy The Hotel Nantucket.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual violence, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Animal death, Miscarriage, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
isabellelle_11's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
inspiring
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Medical trauma
greatexpectations77's review against another edition
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
This is a good beach read - nothing too serious, a little romance, a little ghost friend. I might revisit this author if I'm looking for something that won't challenge my brain much, which is nice to have handy. The author lives on Nantucket, and I think it's interesting that she has this very privileged look at it because it's too horrendously expensive for like anyone else to visit for research. Really interesting niche that she made for herself. Would be interesting to write about the very normalized fatphobia in here.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol
Moderate: Animal death, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism
Minor: Bullying, Death, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Blood, and Grief
d0505's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism
Moderate: Miscarriage
Minor: Drug use
eevacasey's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
tense
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment
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