Rachel Hanes's Reviews > The Hotel Nantucket

(3.5 stars) For some reason I had a really good feeling about this book, so good that I even pre-ordered myself an autographed hard copy of The Hotel Nantucket. Now, it wasn’t my favorite Elin Hilderbrand book that I’ve ever read (sorry, but nothing will top 28 Summers), but it was still enjoyable. I mean, is it even summertime if we are not reading a new Hilderbrand novel?

The Hotel Nantucket provided some interesting characters, unfortunately none that were worthwhile or will be very memorable. We also had the ghost of Grace that was living in the Hotel, which I found a little odd, but whatever…

What I found in this book, along with quite a few of Hilderbrand’s past books are the mention of food dishes and desserts. Hilderbrand goes into full detail (paragraphs and pages) describing certain menu and drink items. That’s fine, but at this point I’m getting tired of reading about food dishes (if I wanted to do that I would pull out my cook books). I also find myself getting too hungry and overeating while reading her novels (can I blame Hilderbrand for that? 😬).

Anyways, The Hotel Nantucket was an enjoyable summer beach read. Nothing more. Nothing less. You really can’t go wrong with this read. Happy Summer! 🏖

Edit to add: At the end of this book Hilderbrand also included a Blue Book, which is a guide and list of “must-do’s” while visiting Nantucket. According to this Blue Book, which listed some wonderful sounding places and restaurants to visit, I would say that it’s apparent for me to continue to keep on reading about Nantucket rather than visit. I think this extraordinary little island might be way out of my price league 😳.