Title: The Five-Star Weekend
Series: Sommer in Nantucket
Author: Elin Hilderbrand
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Release Date: June 13, 2023
After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket.
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’s 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 her 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’s childhood friend Tatum arranges for Hollis’s first love, Jack Finigan, to spend time with them, stirring up old feelings. Meanwhile, Tatum is forced to play nice with abrasive and elitist Dru-Ann, Hollis’s best friend from UNC Chapel Hill. Dru-Ann’s career as a prominent Chicago sports agent is on the line after her comments about a client’s mental health issues are misconstrued online. Brooke, Hollis’s 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 hap- pens, has many secrets.
The Five-Star Weekend is a surprising and captivating story about friendship, love, and self-discovery set on Nantucket. It will be a weekend like no other.
A summer read!
I had to read The Five-Star Weekend because I was ready to watch the TV series, and since the book is usually better, I jumped in.
Holly Shaw has become quite successful after launching a food blog called Hungry with Hollis. The success has made her husband, Matthew, and her daughter, Caroline, not so happy. Her husband is a heart surgeon, and one day in December they have a fight before he has to fly for a meeting. Later on, she receives the news that he has been killed in a car accident. Holly is devastated.
Fast-forward seven months, and Holly comes across an article about a Five-Star Weekend. A woman asked four friends to take a trip with her. Holly, who is still grieving, decides that this is what can help her. She decides to bring friends from each phase of her life, and at the last moment, she adds a friend named Gigi, whom she met through her blog. She also asks Caroline to come back to Nantucket and film the experience.
Of course, nothing goes as planned, and secrets will come out during their stay.
The Five-Star Weekend was an easy and fast-paced read. Holly was likable, and I felt sad for what she was going through, including the distance her daughter was keeping from her.
This novel was enjoyable but not my favorite by this author.
Cliffhanger: No
3.5/5 Fangs
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