The Five-Star Weekend
The Five-Star Weekend - Elin Hilderbrand
my review : ✮✮✮✮
It's not officially summer until I am lost in the (inevitably waterlogged) pages of Elin's latest novel. Elin Hilderbrand is the undisputed queen of the beach read, and somehow, 29 books later, she can still write a fresh & captivating story.
In picking up this book, you are once again transported to the gorgeous island of Nantucket. Like all Elin books, this is chock full of the best kind of indulgences. Mouth-watering food, luxurious linens, frosty bottles of Sancerre, grand sailboats cutting through clear water. No book transports me quite as much as an Elin book.
Our story is about Hollis Shaw, wife, mother, and creator of the wildly popular food blog, Hungry With Hollis. When Hollis' husband dies suddenly in a car crash, life as she knows it comes to a screeching halt. As she prepares for her yearly pilgrimage to the island of Nantucket and grapples with how difficult this summer will be, she learns about another widow that hosted something called a Five Star Weekend: a weekend filled with a friend from each chapter of her life. Hollis is inspired to round up a friend from high school, college, and early motherhood; her friend for this chapter of life is unique in that Hollis has never met her! She's a Hungry with Hollis fan who has helped Hollis through some of her darkest days following the death of her husband. Each woman comes with their own literal and metaphorical baggage as they navigate this unique girls' weekend that will leave them forever changed.
Elin has a knack for writing life-affirming novels that are happy and hopeful. Elin's books always leave me filled with joie de vivre.
I splurged on a bottle of Casa Dragones, which graces the page of many Elin novels, which I'm using to make the watermelon margarita recipe (swipe for the recipe!).
I've decided to rank my top 3 Elin books for fun- please let me know yours!
1. 28 Summers (check out the playlist inspired by this book in my stories!)
2. Hotel Nantucket
3. The Blue Bistro
you’ll love this book if you love:
Nantucket
Stories of female friendships
Elin Hilderbrand (who doesn’t ?!)
