The Hotel Nantucket
The Hotel Nantucket - Elin Hilderbrand
my review : ✮✮✮✮✮
Elin Hilderbrand could write a phone book, and it would be my favorite book of summer. Her books are creamy ice cream in a fragrant waffle cone on a hot summer day, they’re your favorite song surprising you on the radio with the windows down, the smell of fresh lilacs on a 70-degree morning. This book is the perfect companion on your next summer trip.
Our book follows the opulent unveiling of Nantucket’s newest hotel. It had been abandoned for years, was rumored to be haunted, and was such an undertaking that Nantucket residents were resigned to living with the eyesore forever. That is, until billionaire Xavier Darling buys the hotel and spares no expense renovating it. The amenities alone will leave you considering switching out all your bedding for @matouklinens . With the new hotel comes the staff, each with rich backstories and baggage of their own. I think you guys will just adore this book.
Juicy, addicting, and totally decadent, this book is the perfect beach read. Yes, there is a ghost, but it’s so well done, and fun don’t let it get to you!!
Best paired with the fabulous cocktail from the novel, The Heartbreaker (not Heartbroken!!), which we don’t have a recipe for but is some combination of vodka, strawberries, ginger, and blood orange. Play around with it! Worse case you get tipsy, best case you’re a mixologist!!
p.s. It is good to know I am a card carrying Elin addict. I trekked to Nantucket on my honeymoon because Elin painted the island as the most romantic, most perfect, dreamiest place on earth… and she was not wrong.
you’ll love this book if you love:
Elin Hilderbrand (she is a genre within herself)
An immersive, character-driven story that you will get lost within
my favorite quote:
“I’ve always thought of mosaic as this big metaphor for my life,” she says. “All these jagged, incongruous pieces…” She holds up a small shard of milky jade-green glass. “These are like the things that happen to you. But if it’s laid out a certain way and if you take a step back from it, it makes sense.”
