In The Beach Club, the juicy first novel by talented newcomer Elin Hilderbrand, a series of personal dramas are played out during one summer at a Nantucket Beach Club. It’s about the love of summer, summer love, and the special feelings we all have for that special summer place–in this case, a hotel and an island.Mack Petersen, manager of the hotel, has been working at The Beach Club for 12 … Club for 12 summers. Only this summer is different. His boss, the owner of the hotel, Bill Elliot, shows up in the spring with a new set of demands. His girlfriend Maribel is pressing Mack to get married and Vance, the African-American bellman, who has hated Mack since the day Mack stole his job 12 years ago, threatens him in a deadly scene. Mack knows something’s got to give.
Love O’Donnell, the new front desk person straight from the slopes of Aspen, is desperately searching for a stranger to father her child. The bellman, Jem Crandall, who posed as Mr. November in his college calendar, is on his way to LA to break into agenting, until he falls in love with Maribel. Emotions are at a peak when a hurricane threatens to wash away The Beach Club and all it stands for.
An engrossing, sexy novel that will sweep you away to the beach any time of the year.
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I love everything Elin writes and this was no exception. Perfect for reading in the sun!
Good character development, interesting story line. Easy to identify with some of the characters!
I always get pulled in to Elian Hilderbrand’s novels. She is well-written and her characters are heart-warming.
Cute and predictable.
Good read with interesting quirky characters.
Loved this book, can’t believe I hadn’t read her first novel. It was a delightful read.
Loved this book
An “easy to get involved in” book that was also one that kept your attention. Can take your mind of the realities that surround us in today’s world.
I really really liked this book. My first experience reading this author’s books. Wonderful and exciting plots. So different and more complex than other women’s literature. Led me to read more of her work.
Enjoyed
Another wonderful book by Elin Hilderbrand
I love the author Elin Hildebrand and have highly rated all the others. The Beach Club, as her first novel, was rather rough and discombobulated. Her work has greatly improved. This book had too much going on and it was not well put together.
Excellent
Barely held my interest but I stuck it out to the (rushed, nonsequitur, bizarre) ending.
I just didn’t like the ending. It needs a sequel because a lot of enexpected things happened that left too many unanswered questions.
Enjoyed the series
Great bokk
Love all of the books by this author & this one doesn’t disappoint
Disappointing ending that left the reader wondering what ,where and when concerning the major characters
The Beach Club is one of the best books I have read in a long time. I read nearly one book/day but I am not always satisfied with the entertainment quality of
the writing. This book not only is entertaining, the plot os very well throughout
and the writing style is unusually good. It develops the characters in a most
original way but this …