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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
kdailyreads's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
relaxing
sad
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? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Infidelity, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Sexual assault and Alcohol
Minor: Animal cruelty, Death, Miscarriage, Grief, and Death of parent
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