Though I like most books with Nantucket as it's setting (and there are a lot out there), the characters, their interactions with each other, as well as plot developments were all too contrived. I can admit I can indulge in and enjoy the more mundane of the chic lit genre, but finding all loose ends tied up neatly was even too much for me. The most I can recommend it for is a quick and easy read perfect for the beach or a plane ride. One word to describe this book: forgettable. Nancy Thayer writes a book about 3 stepsisters who are forced to live at the family beach house for a summer after their father dies if they want to inherit the money from the million dollar home's sale. Arden, Meg and Jenny have a complicated history and are dreading living together for 3 months. This book is at best predictable and unrealistic. I am a sucker for a happy ending but everything became too happy too easily for the characters of this book. This book at worst did not create any characters. All of the girls seemed to have the same personality to me, which is unlikely and unrealistic. All of men/love interests were interchangeable as well. It felt like the author thought that by describing their appearances as being different and their jobs being different that it would make their characters seem different...it fell flat, to me. Positive about this book is that it is an easy read, I finished it in a few days only. (Mostly because I was looking forward to starting the next book.) I will probably not read another book by Nancy Thayer and would not recommend this book to others. I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it either. I wish there was a Rating for "Eh".
What do You think about Island Girls (2013)?
I couldn't help from liking the characters, but the twists and turn were sadly predictable.
—skua
I didn't expect to enjoy this book as much as I did., I was pleasantly surprised :)
—anna
This book was so lame I'd skip and go w an elin hilderbrand
—MISSY
