July 24, 2023

The Five-Star Weeked

Author: Elin Hilderbrand
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company, 2023
Pages: 384
Rating: Highly Recommend

Synopsis: Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis' perfect life - her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline - grow deeper.

So when Hollis hears about something called a "Five-Star Weekend" - one woman organizes a trip for he best friend from each phase of her life: her teenage years, her twenties, her thirties, and midlife - she decides to host her own Five-Star Weekend on Nantucket. But the weekend doesn't turn out to be a joyful Hallmark movie. 

The husband of Hollis' childhood friend Tatum arranges for Hollis' first love, Jack Finnegan, to spend time with them, stirring up old feelings. Meanwhile, Tatum is forced to play nice with abrasive and elitist Dru-Ann, Hollis' best friend from UNC Chapel Hill. Dru-Ann's career as a prominent Chicago sports agent is on the line after comments about a client's mental health issues are misconstrued online. Brooke, Hollis' friend from their thirties, has just discovered that her husband is having an inappropriate relationship with a woman at work. Again! And then there's GiGi, a stranger to everyone (including Hollis) who reached out to Hollis through her blog. Gigi embodies an unusual grace, and, as it happens, has many secrets.

Review: So much fun and the perfect summertime escapist novel. Electra Undergrove was my favorite character and a fun villain. 

Other Elin Hilderbrand Novels:
Summer of '69
The Blue Bistro
Golden Girl
The Hotel Nantucket
The Island
The Castaways

The Winter Street Series
Winter Street
Winter Stroll
Winter Storms
Winter Solstice

The Winter in Paradise Trilogy
Winter in Paradise
What Happens in Paradise
Troubles in Paradise

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