Summerland
Books | Fiction / Women
3.8
(314)
Elin Hilderbrand
The "queen of the summer novel" explores the power of community, family, and honesty-and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow new love can take flight (Kirkus Reviews).A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. What begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers, Penny's boyfriend, Jake, and her friend Demeter, are physically unhurt--but the emotional damage is overwhelming. Questions linger about what happened before Penny took the wheel.As summer unfolds, startling truths are revealed about the survivors and their parents, the secrets kept, promises broken, and hearts betrayed.
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Author
Elin Hilderbrand
Pages
400
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2012-06-26
ISBN
0316202479 9780316202473
Ratings
Google: 3
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"Not very riveting at all, but a simple summer soap opera kind of book. There were a lot of unnecessary and long passages that I had to skip, even though I hate skipping parts of books. But the reason I did was because it was taking an eternity for Penny’s suicide reason to be revealed, and reading a description of some random Nantucket mother’s house felt so trivial. And then when the reason was finally revealed, it was anticlimactic to me. This book did a good job at making me feel terrible about the death of a young girl. I liked how the author portrayed how each loved one struggled with the loss. Jake’s grief was especially tragic to read. Overall I’d read another Elin book, but not my favorite."
Megan