Book Review: Secrets in Summer

Nantucket becomes a tourist's heaven every summer. Beginning on Memorial Day they begin to show up. Darcy Cotterill calls Nantucket home. She loves the house she inherited and she even enjoys meeting the new neighbors. However, this year the new neighbors consist of her ex, Boyz, and his wife and stepdaughter. She is also looking at her own relationship with Nash Forester, and with Clive rush. Her life is pulled in many directions this summer. By the end of summer she has to make decisions whether to stay to to move on.

This book, along with many of Nancy Thayer's other books, make a great summer read. It is nice to slip into the book and place yourself in Nantucket.

Thayer has such a nice, easy writing style which makes her books very enjoyable. In this one, she created characters that are easy to relate to. I enjoyed this book.

I was given this book by NetGalley and Ballantine Books in exchange for an honest review.

Book Review: The Truth According to Us

Annie Barrows has a beautiful literary style. Having read The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, I was looking forward to reading this book. I loved this book as much as I did the other.

It is set in the time of the Depression in West Virginia and the story tellers are Willa, a 12 year-old and Layla, part of Roosevelt's Writer Project. Layla was sent to this town to write the history of it as part of its 150th birthday celebration.

Throughout the book we are taken on a trip through the town where we meet many of the people of Macedonia, including the little details which make them unique.

This book, although over 500 pages in length, is a quick read, or maybe it just seemed that way because I loved reading it so much. The author was able to make me feel as if I was a part of the story from beginning to end. This is the kind of story that I love to read again and again because it is like visiting with old friends.

I was given this book by NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group in exchange for my honest review.