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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting book on relationships during a summer season on Nantucket at a Beach Club.  Overall I liked the book and it was very easy to read.  However, I did not like some of the language and some parts of book were very explicit, which I did not care for.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book went in a different direction then I thought it would of.  You have love and mystery.,death and disaster ...Who is SBT?  He is the guy that keeps trying to buy the beach club but you find out who and why he wants to buy it at the end of the story.  <br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If I had read this one first of Hilderbrands I would have been reluctant to pick up another one of her novels, this book was like reading a soap opera of who was who and who was doing what during the summer in Nantucket. It kept my mind occupied that is about all, as for the book not too much substa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75700998">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Gorgeous Nantucket is an island where memories are made, friendships begun, passions ignited. Now, during one unforgettable summer, the exclusive Nantucket Beach Club and Hotel will shape the fates of the men and women who walk through its doors...Mack Petersen escaped the past and started over in a hotel that has become his life. This summer his secrets can't stay hidden...Love O'Donnel, a glamourous Aspen native, takes a job at the Beach Club to implement her daring plan...to find a man to make her pregnant...Vance Robbins has his African-American pride and festering resentments. This season, a gun and a woman offer him a chance to get even with the man he hates most...Cecily Elliot, the owner's daughter, wild and beautiful at eighteen, is about to do something to break her parents' hearts.Lacey Gardner, the Grande Dame of the Beach Club for 45 years, knows about the desperate desire...and about the storm coming that will change everything at...The Beach Club.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[5 people from 18-88 and their life one summer at a beach club.  Very intricate and engaging.  You can tell it's her first novel because a few things are predictable, but still bery good.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[not what I expected...in a good way.  this opens my eyes that all &quot;girly&quot; books are not bad and they may even possibly have some substance and reality to them.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Also loved this one by Elin Hilderbrand. Describes the beautiful setting (Nantucket Island) in great detail.  Another one with great characters.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read on my honeymoon.... quick read, but was kind of blah... you could tell what the ending was before it happened.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a super summer read. It was a beach read about a beach romance and its occupants. A lovely read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just a good read...not too heavy, not too fluffy.  Looking forward to reading more of her books!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[it could have been a fun vacation book. but with the language and sex, it bombed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I seem to be reading lots of books taking place on Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard (mystery series by Craig).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[kind of boring.  I didn't read more than 100 pages though.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked it.  I think all of Hilderbrand books are based on Nantucket, but each one has a different aspect of the island.  I think this is the only book that I hadn't read by Hilderbrand.  I would recommend all of her books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The perfect beach read!  I really enjoy this author.]]></body>
    
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