Meadowbrook Lane ReadsALot

 I had no idea what this book would be about. Never read the back of it; got it strictly because I saw someone else had read it and thought it was good.  It was surprising to me that it ended up being a bit of a historical fiction,  WWII book!  I do generally really enjoy those :).   This book was SO different though from any I’ve read before.  The whole story was letters back and forth between an array of characters. I will say that at first this was a bit hard to follow as you learned who all of the different characters ever were.  The main character’s name is Juliet who is a writer in London. Her next book is about the German Occupation of the island of Guernsey after she receives a letter from a member of this “Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society” and begins corresponding with not only that member, but multiple. These people start to become very good friends of hers, and not just people giving her info on what comes to be her next book topic....

Even though this book was a thriller. It was honestly so different from anything else I have read before.  Having lost both her job and her boyfriend, the main character, Jules Larsen answers a job posting for an  apartment sitter  for an upscale apartment in The Bartholomew after the death of its occupant. It is explained to her that tenants cannot let an apartment sit empty for more than a month's time, so as to deter burglars, and that she will live in the apartment until the family determines what they want to do with the unit.  While staying in this creepy, yet incredible, building Jules learns that other people, predominantly sitters, have gone missing in The Bartholomew and that the sitter before her was very likely abducted for unknown reasons. She feels that she finds evidence to support this, so Jules flees The Bartholomew, upon which point she is hit by a car and hospitalized. She initially tries to explain what has happened to the hospital staff, only to ...

  Well, again, you just can’t go wrong with an Elin Hilderbrand book.  Her Beach reads always pull me in two of the stories almost immediately. With each one taking place on Nantucket I feel like I know the island now and the people on it – lol. This particular book is a little bit different from past ones that I have read because the story is mostly told from “Vivi” —who was killed by a hit and run, while she herself was out on a run. She has three grown children (Willa, Carson and Leo) so the story’s premise is watching the lives of these three kids and their relationships with each other as siblings and then also with others around them following this tragedy. There are some hidden truths that come to light for Vivi‘s family to sort out and mistakes both past and present for them to try to move forward from.  And who did run Vivi down?  From the beginning, one of Leo’s best friends—basically a second son to Vivi—was the one suspected.  Was it him?? 4.2 out of...