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The Summer Girls (2013)

by Mary Alice Monroe(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1476709009 (ISBN13: 9781476709000)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Gallery Books

series

Lowcountry Summer

review 1: I hate this book so much! After slogging through 386 pages I can confirm what I felt on page 100. This book SUCKS! This book should have just been called summer GIRL because it completely left out the other two, the story totally went off on a whole other tangent. It's like the author got distracted from the original story she was going to write and just went with it without mentioning the first story or going back to the original story line. Like hmmm, maybe they'll forget. There was a dolphin and a grandmother and a house on Sullivan's Island. WTF? Nothing in this book came together or made sense. I'm not into defiling literature or destroying books but I'm off to roast some marshmallows and I know what I'm using as kindling!
review 2: "The Summer Girls" by M... moreary Alice Monroe was a quick easy nice beach read. This book is about 3 half-sisters who are asked by their grandmother to come spend one last summer at the beach house on Sullivan's Island before she sells it and goes into a retirement community. The girls, each struggling with their own problems and demons, reluctantly agree to stay in the house for the whole summer. Mamaw's greatest wish was for these girls, her summer girls, to reconnect and become sisters again. I recently read a book with a similar base story of 3 half-sisters with a complicated history spending the summer at the beach together, and I have to admit that this book was much better. My biggest complaint about this novel was that I wish the author would have written more about each of the characters instead of focusing so much on Carson, the middle sister who was the only of the three sisters to have lived a majority of her life with her alcoholic father and whose mother had died. The beginning of the novel showed promise that the storyline was going to be equally about Dora, Harper and Mamaw but at some point the focus went completely to Carson and the rest of the characters seemed like a side note, especially Harper, the youngest from New York. I did enjoy Carson's storyline and her complicated relationship with the hunky Travis as well as her connection to a very special dolphin she named Delphine. The author did a great job of showing how difficult mending broken hearts, relationships and families can be. I liked that everything took time to heal and it wasn't just easily fixed with one inspirational sentence or with a snap of their fingers, like some of the other books of this nature I've read. I think the book had more promise than delivery but overall it was a pleasant read. less

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