28 Summers

I would have given this book 5 stars had it not been for Elin not so subtly sneaking in her political opinions on this one. I really enjoy her books and look at them as an escape from the every day minutia, especially social media. I enjoyed how she started each chapter with a different year and the major events that happened in that year. Those are facts. I did not care for the chapter where she blatantly references Judge Kavanaugh and the Me Too movement using one of her main characters to get her own opinions in on the matter. I read these books to get away from the inundation of people\’s political opinions.

i usually like this author for fun summer reads.I did not like any of the characters in this book. Mallory and Jakes romance was immature, inappropriate, and bad for everyone involved. I also did not appreciate the lengthy and not necessary to the plot fake Kavanaugh hearing virtue signalling portion of the book.

What is going on with this book? Women who wait around to be mistreated by men who appear and disappear year after year need help, not glorification. Men who behave the way they do in this book should not have their weaknesses shown as sympathetic, but just pathetic. I just am not sure what this book was trying to show about relationships. Please don\’t waste your money.

I look forward to this author\’s books every summer. I have to agree with some of the other reviewers, I didn\’t much care for this one. It was not bad, just wasn\’t up to par with Ms. Hilderbrand\’s usual books. I did not look at Mallory & Jake\’s relationship as a sweet and romantic. I saw it as Mallory pining after a man she could only see a few days a year. And a weak man, Jake, who married Ursula for no good reason. There was no good reason given, either, why these two couldn\’t be together full time if they loved each other so much. They both had money and Jake could have found work on Nantucket or working remotely. Mallory basically gave up having a normal, healthy relationship for a man she could have 3 days a year; a married man, at that. Whereas Jake got to \’have his cake and eat it too\’ which didn\’t make him very attractive to me. And yes, various stereotypes were used – The high powered Ursula; the overly fanatic liberal, Bess. I did not appreciate the thinly veiled digs at the Kavanaugh confirmation either. Nor the anti-gun stance. My preference is for the author to leave her, apparently, personal politics out of her books. My favorite character was Cooper. At any rate, I will still definitely buy her next summer read but I hope she goes back to her \’old\’ formula of books. They seem to be going downhill over the years. The characters in this book were not realistic at all for the most part. They were \’on paper\’ characters and hardly any of them seemed \’real.\’

I love Elin Hilderbrand’s book and look forward to them every year. While the beauty of Nantucket is awesome in this read, I just couldn’t finish. The story is so week and the characters are not relatable. They don’t make a choice that makes sense. There is now plot, each chapter can almost stand alone. Maybe my expectations were too high?

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