The Summer Place

Jennifer Weiner has done it again, this is a twisty turning coming of age, realization of life, and following your heart novel about a family that intersects in more ways than I thought possible. 

There are so many secrets and betrayals in this book, love and lies, ups and downs it is the perfect summer/beach read. 

The thing about this book that pulled me in and kept me there was the realness of the families, all families have their secrets, their skeletons in the closet and they all have moments of joy and moments of sorrow, now granted they don't all have a wedding coming up where the bride and groom may be related, but they do all have their own little quirks. 

For me this is fun and flirty without being a standard romance, there's the family, there are careers, there are moments of existential crisis that you can put yourself into, for so much of this book I found myself thinking would I or wouldn't I, I can see both sides of almost every situation and that made it so fun to read. 

I will admit I didn't see the situation with Ronnie coming and it broke my heart, even though she was a supporting player for parts of this book, she was my favorite character (aside from the house of course) her life, how her decisions set up her children and grand children, I was hooked from the first page to the last. and can't recommend this one enough.  

Thank you to NetGalley for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.