First Thoughts after finishing book: I'm glad that I didn't end up hating Meredith!!

What I liked about this book:

The story is very relevant to what has been occurring in corporate America and Wall Street. Greed, selfishness, and amassing "things" is the main agenda for many in this country.
Meredith's best friend Connie- if not for this character I would have stopped reading this book as I really couldn't take another minute trying to feel sorry for someone who wouldn't think twice about dropping More...

As I read this novel, I was somewhat thrown by its close similarities to the still very current Bernie Madoff story. Although never mentioned, it seems to me the author used Madoff's Ponzi scheme as the jumping off point for "Silver Girl." Freddy Delinn, his wife Meredith and their two grown sons, Leo and Carver, lived the high life in Manhattan. Once it was discovered that Freddy had taken billions of investment dollars from strangers and friends alike-- all of whom were clamoring for him to in More...

To be alone in a world where she was once idolized and held up as a shining example of success is not something Meredith Delinn thought would ever happen. Having been swindled out of not only her money, but her life including her friends and family she’s finding it hard to believe she ever knew the man who caused it all; her husband Freddy. In an attempt to escape the media frenzy surrounding her husband’s discovered Ponzi scheme she connects with her childhood friend, Connie, whom she hasn’t sp More...

Another time I wish we could half stars! This would be one and a half.

I am torn about this book. Maybe it is just too close to the Madoff scandal. The author paints us a picture that the wife of the Ponzi master is caring, sweet, lovely, and just oblivious to what her husband has done. I don't buy it, but then, I get it. It's only a book.

But maybe that is the part that makes me so torn. Bernie Madoff was real. The damage he did was real. His son committed suicide. He stole billions of dollars fr More...

Meredith was clueless about more than just her husband. She has no curiosity. Mediocre story. I wanted it to be over.

STORY BRIEF:
This book was inspired by the Bernie Madoff financial disaster. People gave money to Bernie who created fake reports telling them they were earning huge profits, but in reality he was stealing their money. For many people this was their life’s savings. Bernie went to jail.

In this story Freddy Delinn is the Bernie character. His wife is Meredith. They have two sons in t More...

I was looking through my posts today and noticed that it has been quite awhile since I was able to give a book a "5" rating. The authors I normally love, such as Jodi Picoult (a "2" for Sing You Home???) and Jennifer McMahon just didn't put out the work that I expected from them this year. I love, love, love Bethenny Frankel, but she can't really write a book. The last "5" I gave was to Jane Green on June 2 for the lovely Promises to Keep. I was getting a little discouraged. Then came Silver Gir More...

My thoughts on Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand


I love discovering new writers. Let me rephrase that by saying, 'new writers to me', because often they are not new to the writing game, I have just never read any of their books previously. That is the case with my latest read, Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand.


Silver Girl looks like a typical "beach read" from the cover with a slim blonde gazing out over the ocean, but delve into the pages and you'll find more than just a book about romance, or lust, More...

OK, first of all, I am a total snob because I didn't want to like this book, because I could tell immediately it was a total beach read, chick lit type of book. But then I ended up liking it--shame on me and my snobbery! However, I was right about one thing, and that's that it really seems aimed at a traditional, upper-middle-class, conformist type of reader, particular a female reader. There were a couple places in the book where really antifeminist things were said (at least I thought) and jus More...

I really don't like to give bad reviews but this book was not good. Maybe it would be ok for a beach read but other than that I probably wouldn't bother. I have to admit that I listened to it on CD which may have swayed my opinion, but I did think about half way through that the only reason I wish I had been reading it was so that I could've skimmed the second half and finished faster.

Most of the women in this book are not very smart and see themselves only through the eyes of the man that they' More...

Silver Girl is the typical romance novel where girl meets bad boy. Girl falls in love with bad boy. Girl is told that bad boy won’t change and will probably get worse. Girl doesn’t listen and marries bad boy. Bad boy commits a crime that can take down Girl and their children. Girl has problem severing ties with Bad Boy when he goes to prison.

Bad Boy Freddy Delinn pulls a ponze scheme on anyone and everyone, friends, family and strangers unbeknown to his wife. It takes good girl Meredith Martin D

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Even better than I had anticipated!

Meredith Delin's husband, Freddy, was convicted of stealing billions of dollars from his investment firm's clients, and was sent to jail for 150 years. Meanwhile, Meredith's home, clothes, cars and bank accounts have been possessed by the government. No matter that she lived in an elite section of Manhattan or that she had custom made couture gowns in her closet. She is left with nothing except a small savings from before her marriage, one suitcase of clothes, More...

I won this book from an author’s blog, so that is always fun. I've enjoyed each of Hildebrand’s books that I've read, but I was hesitant about this one, since it was based on the whole Madoff saga. But, once again, Hildebrand did not disappoint.

She wrote a sympathetic and likable heroine, who I couldn’t help but route for. I do not know enough about the real Mrs. Madoff, to know if they are similar (but I’m assuming they're not). The story was compelling - and made you stop to think about what h More...

I have never been able to get my head around the breadth of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, the wide net cast over so many victims, the far reaching consequences. I have also never spent a moment thinking about the man or his family.
Yet, such a scheme and the family involved are what drive the plot of Hilderbrand’s latest novel, and I was immediately drawn in to the felon’s wife’s character and believe in her innocence from the beginning. Meredith asks her long-time best friend, Connie, from whom More...

Silver Girl started out so well. I took it out from my library and was really looking forward to vicarious lifestyles of the rich and famous morality tale. Setting: Nantucket Island where the wife the greatest financial scoundrel of the 21st century *yes, you are supposed to think Bernie Madoff* has come to lick her wounds and get away from the press. The ruined lives, suicides even -- all victims of her husband's Ponzi scheme -- come fast and furious. Meredith Martin Delinn is an innocent: perh More...

Elin Hilderbrand's Silver Girl is the story of a woman whose life is turned completely upside down by her husband's actions--and of friendship, redemption, and love.

Meredith Delinn faces complete ostracism from society when her husband Freddy's financial ponzi scheme is busted wide open. Needing to hide her face (and shame) from everybody, she calls up her childhood best friend and is whisked off to Nantucket for the summer. Not that everything's great between Connie and Meredith... And Connie h More...

I really liked this book, quite a bit more than expected. It is the story of a woman abandoned by everyone in her life when it is revealed that her husband Freddy has been the mastermind behind a Ponzi scheme of epic proportions. It is obviously inspired by the Bernie Madoff scandal, but I do not believe it follows the story too closely.

When Meredith (Freddy's wife) realizes that she is left with absolutely nothing and no one who cares about her, she contacts her lifelong best friend Connie and More...

The truth is that I didn’t have high hopes for this book because:

1.I am a bit tired of the “Victim of XYZ retreats to Nantucket to lick her wounds with her former BFF” premise, and

2.The title and cover of this book are a bit too reminiscent of Danielle Steel to appeal to me.

But since it’s Ramadan and I need all the distraction I can get, I decided to overlook these two strikes and I checked this book out from the library.

Silver Girl is the story of Meredith – a woman dealing with the aftermath More...

There were several likeable aspects within this too long woman's fiction novel. The descriptive passages of Nantucket made me wish for a future visit, the father-daughter relationship between Meredith and her father was touching and the friendship between Constance and Meredith had some good moments. The men Constance and Meredith end the book with on a happy ever after ending were hot.

Meredith's perfect weathly life is shattered when her husand is imprisoned after stealing billions of dollars f More...

This is my first experience with Elin Hilderbrand and it won’t be my last. This book was amazing. Elin truly has a way with capturing the things that cause people the most pain. As I read, I ached for both Meredith and Connie. I was driven to read on in the hope that everything would be resolved. I wanted Meredith to be cleared with the FBI, to admit that her husband was a creep.
I wanted Connie to admit that it was okay to love again and to finally receive her phone call from her estranged daugh More...

Meredith Delinn is dogged by reporters and scorned by the public. Knowing her NYC apartment (and its contents) are about to be seized, Meredith calls her childhood friend Connie Fluke for help. Their friendship was challenged throughout Meredith's marriage as her husband drove them apart to climb up NYC's social ladder. As we learn later in the story, Connie's husband suspected fraud and withdrew from Delinn Investments, further straining the women's friendship. Yet Connie responds to Meredith's More...

There are some people who's lives get lost in the shuffle of day to day living until one day things explode and you find yourself with nothing. That's what's happened to Meredith Martin Delinn who's husband Freddy was found to have cheated billions out from investors and now Meredith is facing homelessness.

To fight the ongoing depression that results from this mess she joins her longtime best friend Connie Flute with problems of her own and they decide to spend the summer in Nantucket to hide, More...

While I've read more than my fair share of Elin Hilderbrand's breezy, easy summer novels (Barefoot, The Castaways, A Summer Affair, The Island, Summer People, Nantucket Nights) this was by far the most emotional and affecting yet. Usually, along with Jennifer Crusie, Hilderbrand is my go-to gal for a light, beachy, often romantic read I can finish in a couple hours. This novel was a slight change in tone from the previous novels I'd read, because those books too dealt with heavy, tough issues, t More...

So Meredith's husband did a fantastic Ponzi Scheme and mucked up all of her friendships. Everybody hates her and believes she was complicit. Not only that, she is under investigation as is her son, Leo. Hubby Freddy is choosing to be mute in prison. Meredith can have no contact with her sons and her husband is choosing to not talk. At all.

Connie lost her husband two and half years ago to cancer. At the time, her daughter, Ashlyn wrote herself out of Connie's life. Connie is heartbroken and lonel More...

Sail on Silver Girl. Sail on by. Your time has come to shine. All your dreams are on their way.” Page 341

Meredith Delinn certainly didn’t feel like any dreams were coming true after her husband was arrested for stealing millions from investors.

Being the wife of an investment thief definitely was not pleasant. Freddy had cheated investors out of millions, was finally caught, and made his family's life miserable. He wouldn't talk to authorities about anything and wouldn't tell them that his wife a More...

This book drew me in from the cover :) It's stunning - don't we all want to be Meredith staring out at that gorgeous ocean!

It read like a typical beach book to me - the kind of novel you take to the chaise and read at your leisure. It's not a thriller, page turner (hence, 4 rather than a 5 from me) but definitely a good read. I enjoyed most of the book - from the twists and turns of Freddy and the sorrows - and eventual - triumph of Meredith.

It broke my heart. The seperation of a mom (Leo, Carv More...

Elin Hilderbrand is a favorite summertime read for me. I love that her books are always set on Nantucket and there's usually a Philly connection - two things taken from the author's life. I also like that she usually writes from multiple points of view and there are secrets that the characters are either hiding from each other, the reader, or both. Silver Girl is no different from any of the other Hilderbrand books I've read. In this novel, the reader meets Meredith Delinn, the wife of a man con More...

When Freddy Delinn is charged with embezzling billions in a Ponzi scheme, his wife, Meredith, is frantic. She swears that she didn't know anything about the scheme, but the authorities are not convinced and start investigating her possible involvement as well as that of her sons. She knows that she must go into hiding and contacts an old friend, Connie, whom she hasn't seen in years. Together they spend the summer in Connie's summer house on Nantucket while they discover "the power of friendship More...

Meredith is Silver Girl, she lives a privileged life with her husband, an investments banker...and a crook. The problem is Silver Girl doesn't know her husband is a crook and one day he, and the Feds, reveal that he has stolen 50 billion dollars from his clients. Think Bernie Madoff.
As you can imagine Meredith's life spins out of control and all eyes are on her as people think she was in on the scam due to her "loving" husband putting her fingerprints all over 15 million dollars 3 days before h More...

I always have a hard time evaluating Elin Hilderbrand's books. I really enjoy her writing, and she can draw me quickly into a story which is not an easy task for an author. The hard part for my review is that I often don't like the story or the characters. Such as the case with Silver Girl. Although I did like Connie well enough, I just wanted to shake Meredith and say "Think for yourself!" All in all I guess that's a true compliment to the author to invoke that type of emotion. I appreciated th More...