Nantucket Nights
by Elin Hilderbrand
It’s a tradition in my house (as well as many others, I’m sure) to read an Elin Hilderbrand novel every summer. When I plowed through Nantucket Nights (because it was truly hard to put it down at the end of the day), I held an extra sense of enjoyment because the main three characters reminded me of myself and my two best friends. The main heroine has a dark, swarthy husband whom she loves, but she does sometimes get insecure about just how lovely and appreciated she is. The second woman is African-American, very closed off as to her real feelings, and while the other girls bend over backwards to try and become her friend, she acts like she could care less about them. The third, with the smallest part, ironically, was the girl who reminded me of myself. Blonde, loves staying fit and dressing nice, and has a husband no one likes. So, while reading this story that I knew would never happen to us, it was fun to imagine our lives taking a different direction.
As all Hilderbrand covers blend so you can’t tell which ones you’ve read, it’s important to read the plot synopses. In Nantucket Nights, the three girlfriends have a twenty-year yearly tradition of taking a decadent picnic out to the lake for a midnight swim and sharing secrets. One year, one of the friends swims out into the lake … and never comes back. As the police search for the missing woman, the remaining friends try to solve the mystery of where and why, through flashbacks and clues in the present time.
I’m never one to judge a book too harshly by its ending if I don’t like it. So, even though I didn’t like the last bit of this book, I’d definitely read it again and have already recommended it to my pals. It’s intriguing (even if you guess what’s around the corner), and well written. Not your typical beach read, and it’s always refreshing to read a book where the leads aren’t teeny-boppers without a shred of maturity.
As all Hilderbrand covers blend so you can’t tell which ones you’ve read, it’s important to read the plot synopses. In Nantucket Nights, the three girlfriends have a twenty-year yearly tradition of taking a decadent picnic out to the lake for a midnight swim and sharing secrets. One year, one of the friends swims out into the lake … and never comes back. As the police search for the missing woman, the remaining friends try to solve the mystery of where and why, through flashbacks and clues in the present time.
I’m never one to judge a book too harshly by its ending if I don’t like it. So, even though I didn’t like the last bit of this book, I’d definitely read it again and have already recommended it to my pals. It’s intriguing (even if you guess what’s around the corner), and well written. Not your typical beach read, and it’s always refreshing to read a book where the leads aren’t teeny-boppers without a shred of maturity.