The Summer Place

The Summer Place A Novel

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdownable novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind. When Veronica Levy bought her home on the Outer Cape, she imagined generations of her family gathering there each summer for many years to come—but things didn’t work out that way. Forty years later, Ronnie’s husband is gone. Her son, Sam, is in California, and rarely makes the trip back home. Her daughter, Sarah, packs her kids’ summers full of enriching, educational, resume-building activities that do not include collecting seashells or playing Frisbee on the beach. When Sarah’s stepdaughter announces her engagement, it feels like a natural end point. Ronnie will reunite the family for one last summer celebration, and then say goodbye to the house she’s loved for her entire life. Another soon-to-be smash hit from the “undisputed boss of the beach read” (The New York Times), The Summer Place is a hilarious, delicious, and wickedly observed story about parents and children, husbands and wives, the places we call home, and all the ways that love can surprise us.
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Kristen Claiborn@kristenc
2 stars
Jan 7, 2023

I had been looking forward to this book. I recall enjoying one of Jennifer Weiner’s previous books, and this one was highly anticipated. I was excited to get this one off a library hold and I dug right in. Unfortunately, I rode the struggle bus throughout the entire book. This one reminded me a lot of Danielle Steele’s books. There was a lot of story building but not a lot of storytelling. I endured pages-long paragraphs that were bland and pointless. The characters felt flat and were not at all likeable. The only character I didn’t dislike was the house, but the house and its role in the story was weak as well. It would have made more sense if the house had a bigger part in the whole story, but instead it was just inserted randomly in places that didn’t quite feel right. I have little else to say about this book. Obviously, I didn’t enjoy it, and I wouldn’t recommend it to any of my book buddies.

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Erin Jones@erinpennjones
3 stars
Jan 18, 2024
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Kate Lillie@lilliek1
5 stars
Aug 2, 2023

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