Island Girls: Island Girls: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

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As a Nantucket fan, I have read several books by Nancy Thayer before and liked this one a lot. You get exactly what you expect if you are looking for a summer read that leaves you feeling good. Naturally with this genre you usually know how it will end after a couple of pages but this book had enough nice twists and turns to keep me interested.

Great vacation read. Was finished in a day or two so it was quick and no frills but a happy good beach read. I would recommend but only for a similar occasion.

A good read for a rainy day. I’ll be looking for another such read in the authors other books as well.

This book's previous was so interesting I bought it. I started reading and I didn't stop until the very last page. Great book !

Great book!!!! A typical Nancy Thayer easy to read, fun & captivating!!! I simply couldn't put it down & felt like I was right there in the beach house with them!

Just enjoyable, the author does not let you down

Rather predictable.

Great book, story was interesting kept me reading for more. I loved this book, would advice others to read this book.

I've never before read a Nancy Thayer novel. I just recently became obsessed with Elin Hilderbrand, and so finding a new novel based on Nantucket and the "island life" is what drew me to Island Girls.I have to say, I definitely will be finding more Nancy Thayer books to devour after having been immersed inside her world with Island Girls. Her writing is spot on and the characters she creates are full of life. It's easy to become enraptured by the lives of the women she writes about.In Island Girls, we meet Jenny, Meg and Arden- sisters by chance. Meg and Arden are Rory's natural daughters. Rory, a somewhat serial philanderer, left Arden's mom to marry Meg's mother, Cyndi and then met Jenny's mom and married Jenny's mom when Jenny was 9 years old. He then, adopted Jenny.Now fast forward to after Rory's death, the girls who might have been best of friends and the closest of allies had the "Exile" not occurred.The second summer after Jenny's mother married Rory, Arden who was a 15 year old on a hell bent course for destruction and going for "shock value" with not only her "slutty" appearance but also by her attitude must have been a handful for the new stepmother. It seems that both Meg and Arden were made to leave and were never allowed to return to the Nantucket home, and creating a discord between the sisters. It became Meg and Arden against Jenny and Jenny's mother.Now years later, because of a condition in Rory's will where the three sisters must spend three months together on the island in the home in order to inherit the home, they are all forced to confront the past demons.This was truly a page turner. I was pulled in from the very first page and didn't one time find myself being bored. The storyline played out perfectly.

My major issue with this book is the complete unlikability and implausibility of the characters in it. If I knew people like this in real life, I would certainly take steps to stop knowing them. I guess I don't come at the world like, "I know you did this horrific and unforgivable thing to someone I love, but time heals all so who wants a cocktail and a makeover?! That will just fix it all right up!" Seriously, who does that? It was like 363 pages of a bad soap opera. There is charming beach reading and then there is this. I don't recommend this book.

This is the last time I trust a good rating on Amazon. This book is pure crap. I'm almost at a loss for words to describe how awful it is. Immature, unrealistic characters, preposterous plot. The set-up to get the women together is laughable. Maybe a fifth grader would enjoy this, but I doubt it. They would probably find it ridiculous as well.

I had just tried to read Summer Breeze which I didn't make it through so with Island Girls Thayer is back in my good graces! This book kind of hit home with me - long story and not to air my business but my father married 3 times (3 kids first, 1 second - all his, none of which were supported), the third had two kids of her own and an agenda. In the end all the 4 of us wanted was our childhood pictures he had and she wouldn't give them to us. I could write my own book!!! Sad. The characters in Island Girls were very real and well rounded. I liked all of them and could relate to them - even Justine because Thayer let us see her vulnerable side when she was grieving - if she hadn't this person would not have been likeable. I love books written around the water - with Thayer's descrptions you feel like you could close your eyes and be on the beach with a picnic basket. Overall a good book that flows and held my interest. You find yourself hopeful that all works out in the end for all of them and spoiler alert - the ending doesn't disappoint!

Just a lovely story of women in a complicated family. Tender, smart and strong ladies who learn how to 'turn the page' and open their hearts to embrace forgiveness and love.

Thayer is a master at weaving together the lives of women who are, at once, very different and very much the same. I love watching her characters develop, face their own truths, and come to a newer, deeper place within themselves. Arden, Meg and Jenny are each, in her own way, complex. The three joined together by Rory Randall who had married each of their mothers. It doesn't hurt that Thayer so deftly carries the reader to Nantucket. What better place to spend the summer. Makes Island Girls a perfect beach read.

I loved that this book dealt with some crazy family dynamics that grow throughout the book with a few plot twists and surprises thrown in. I was confused at how it ended. I would have liked to of seen the reactions of the two sisters who left and what became of Jeanine and William. Everything is left to your own devices and I prefer more closure than that.