All the Summer Girls by Meg Donohue
Expected Publication: May 21, 2013Format: E-ARC provided via Edelweiss
Publisher: William Morrow & Co.
Rating: 2.5/5
Summary via Goodreads
In Philadelphia, good girl Kate is dumped by her fiancé
the day she learns she is pregnant with his child. In New York City, beautiful
stay-at-home mom Vanessa is obsessively searching the Internet for news of an
old flame. And in San Francisco, Dani, the aspiring writer who can't seem to
put down a book--or a cocktail--long enough to open her laptop, has just been
fired...again.
In an effort to regroup, Kate, Vanessa, and Dani retreat
to the New Jersey beach town where they once spent their summers. Emboldened by
the seductive cadences of the shore, the women being to realize how much their
lives, and friendships, have been shaped by the choices they made one fateful
night on the beach eight years earlier--and the secrets that only now threaten
to surface.
My Thoughts
Let’s
start off by saying that although I gave this book 2.5 stars, it’s not a bad
book. I just had high hopes for this book and it just wasn’t what I thought it
would be. I thought it would be a light fluffy beach read. Instead I personally
felt it kind of heavy.
Three
friends who come together to reconnect after a few years, to the one place
where they disconnected in the first place. All with their own problems in
their current lives, they come to place where Kate’s brother died. All thinking
they had something to do with it.
For
some reason I just couldn’t connect with some of these characters. I just didn’t
feel like I wanted to invest anytime with them. I liked Kate and I just wished
her story with her fiancé was explored more. I would’ve loved to know more of
Dani’s story. Exploring her personal life and why she’s so cut off emotionally
and to see if she could finally find true love.
All
in all it was an okay read in my opinion. I far from dislike it but not the
summer beach read I was expecting.
What a shame... It feels terrible to have expectations for a book, only for it to fall flat :/ I thought this was a light fluffy read too, but the topics now feel heavy and the characters don't seem likeable, not going to be reading this any time soon! Great, honest review :)
ReplyDeleteAlicia @ Summer Next Top Story
It is. I need to just go into a book free of anything. I need to have an open mind and attitude. I saw this and it screamed beach read. It's not an awful book just not what I wanted it to be.
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