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szirbel's review against another edition
4.0
I was lucky enough to receive an early copy of The High Season through bookishfirst. I thought it would be the perfect summer read and Judy Blundell didn’t disappoint. Her characters were wonderful and she created a wonderful community of characters around The Orient. It’s filled with rich and poor, heartache and finding true love. It’s about relationships between mothers and daughters, friends, nemesis’s and everyone in between. A must read this summer!
librarydosebykristy's review against another edition
4.0
When I picked this up I thought it would be a tense, dark summer thriller. But it wasn’t at all! It was more in line with books like The Nest and even Big Little Lies. Darkly comic with some serious undercurrents, super interesting and likable and well drawn characters.
I enjoyed this book so much! I read it during a busy time at my house with people visiting us. I would only have time to read it late at night before sleeping and every single time I started it, I stayed up way too late because I didn’t want to stop reading!
I enjoyed this book so much! I read it during a busy time at my house with people visiting us. I would only have time to read it late at night before sleeping and every single time I started it, I stayed up way too late because I didn’t want to stop reading!
lyndseeh's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
bonefires's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
4.0
For readers of Rebecca Makkai and Emily Henry 💛
babyruth510's review against another edition
3.0
Quick, engaging summer read about the people in a lower key LI beach town. Not for everyone as there are plenty of shallow charachters but it held my interest.
gabizago's review against another edition
3.0
Honestly? I had a hard time reading this book. I couldn't relate to the characters at all. Their dramas all seemed so superficial, and for the first half of the book, I couldn't even connect to the story, or remember who was whom. I confess that I almost abandoned the reading, but then I decided to keep going. I reconnected to the story more towards the end, and it turns out that it actually becomes interesting after the first half. Things start to happen. And you kind of start understanding how all the characters connect to each other, in a way that makes sense. This might be a nice light reading for the Summer, but maybe you will enjoy more if you are familiar with the area where the story takes place (Hamptons, North Fork, New York), or the field where most of the characters seem to belong to (Arts).
juliardye's review against another edition
2.0
2.5 stars. I kept regretting wasting minutes of my life reading this book but for some reason I kept going. I didn't like any of the characters or care what happened to them!
carolynfc's review against another edition
5.0
I only picked this up because I saw that it is set in the North Fork of Long Island, which is where I live. From the book description alone, I didn’t expect to like it because I expected it to be a name-dropping book about wealth in the Hamptons.
It is not. Instead, it’s a story about losing everything you thought made you YOU and what the fallout from that looks like. And honestly, I thought Judy Blundell nailed it.
If you‘re a person who doesn’t love stories with unlikeable characters, this might not be for you. I usually am, but I felt like in this kind of story where ugly things turn nice people ugly it just WORKED. And the descriptions of my Long Island that I love so much made me very happy.
All in all, highly recommended summer reading 👍
It is not. Instead, it’s a story about losing everything you thought made you YOU and what the fallout from that looks like. And honestly, I thought Judy Blundell nailed it.
If you‘re a person who doesn’t love stories with unlikeable characters, this might not be for you. I usually am, but I felt like in this kind of story where ugly things turn nice people ugly it just WORKED. And the descriptions of my Long Island that I love so much made me very happy.
All in all, highly recommended summer reading 👍
nikki1211's review against another edition
3.0
A quiet, family oriented town – Orient Point, Long Island – was slowly being infiltrated by frequent visitors of the more glamorous Hamptons. “Was” being the choice word because this summer season the town will be overrun by outsiders looking to take stock in the quiet beach town. They will bring along their “new” ideas for how the town should run and are not quiet about it at all.
Being from Long Island and reading countless books on Hamptons life in my twenties (i.e. Four Blondes and Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell), I find stories describing the Hamptons socialite scene to be rather old. I look back at those stories as someone in my late thirties and now feel they were rather vapid, certainly not something I would reread. Like looking back at my early 2000’s wardrobe: I question my judgment.
But that is my opinion and not a reason to stay away from this book. I’ll provide a brief, spoiler free synopsis and you can decide if this would be your beach read jam:
Ruthie and Mike consciously uncoupled, but still share the beach house they inherited. In order to afford to live in the beach town they have to rent out their home during the busiest months of the summer. This year they rent out their home to billionaire Adeline Clay; who always gets what she wants, and she wants Ruthie’s life. Insert a whole slew of other characters: wealthy artists, social ladder climbers, trust fund babies and you have one interesting summer.
I liked Ruthie a lot, the people around her though: not my cup of tea. There is one scene involving Ruthie and a lilac tree and all I will say is “Go Ruthie!”
Author, Judy Blundell, is a well-known young adult author; I believe The High Season is her first adult novel. Her YA roots will come through during Ruthie’s daughter Jem’s scenes.
I received the arc of this book from Random House as a participant in their Spring Open House book club discussion on said book. Thank you Random House!
To read my reviews visit: www.saturdaynitereader.com
Being from Long Island and reading countless books on Hamptons life in my twenties (i.e. Four Blondes and Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell), I find stories describing the Hamptons socialite scene to be rather old. I look back at those stories as someone in my late thirties and now feel they were rather vapid, certainly not something I would reread. Like looking back at my early 2000’s wardrobe: I question my judgment.
But that is my opinion and not a reason to stay away from this book. I’ll provide a brief, spoiler free synopsis and you can decide if this would be your beach read jam:
Ruthie and Mike consciously uncoupled, but still share the beach house they inherited. In order to afford to live in the beach town they have to rent out their home during the busiest months of the summer. This year they rent out their home to billionaire Adeline Clay; who always gets what she wants, and she wants Ruthie’s life. Insert a whole slew of other characters: wealthy artists, social ladder climbers, trust fund babies and you have one interesting summer.
I liked Ruthie a lot, the people around her though: not my cup of tea. There is one scene involving Ruthie and a lilac tree and all I will say is “Go Ruthie!”
Author, Judy Blundell, is a well-known young adult author; I believe The High Season is her first adult novel. Her YA roots will come through during Ruthie’s daughter Jem’s scenes.
I received the arc of this book from Random House as a participant in their Spring Open House book club discussion on said book. Thank you Random House!
To read my reviews visit: www.saturdaynitereader.com