The Castaways (Nantucket, #2) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Feb 10, 2010 Linda C rated it did not like it

Shelves: hated

This book disproves the idea that it is hard to get a book published. It is published and it is absolutely ghastly. What a waste of time!

The only good thing that I can saw about wasting the day reading it was that it was supposed to be snowing, so there wasn't much else to do. The kids were home watching movies or using the computer and all their activities were cancelled because of the snow. This is a book to read either on a snow day or a beach day, and only then if you don't expect much. I wo This book disproves the idea that it is hard to get a book published. It is published and it is absolutely ghastly. What a waste of time!

The only good thing that I can saw about wasting the day reading it was that it was supposed to be snowing, so there wasn't much else to do. The kids were home watching movies or using the computer and all their activities were cancelled because of the snow. This is a book to read either on a snow day or a beach day, and only then if you don't expect much. I would suggest the beach with a strong drink, that way, your expectations will be lower.

This women has serious need of an editor; the writing was sophomoric at best. I am surprised by the number of people who rated this book 3 or 4 stars. Clearly, they need to be exposed to better literature. However, I did sort of finish the book, although painful, it wasn't bad enough to give up on, but the last 30 pages I really skimmed through. I was so thoroughly sick of these people that I wanted it to end. I didn't care of Greg killed Tess or not.

Samples of the so-called writing: "Now, however, she was his."

"Tess's arms locked around him. He pulled her in. She was his now. Did she know it?"

"The little Gidget girl is hot."

"The kiss was the right thing. He kissed her again. And again."

"He felt guilty stealing it. But then, guess what?"

"Phoebe called him Reedy, Reeder, Freebird, Sweet Reedy Bird." Sweet Reedy Bird-- what the hell is that? If I had ever called my brother Sweet Anything Bird, he would have punched me.

Not to mention the things that are just factually wrong, i.e. Phoebe having an amnio at 11 weeks. That medically just doesn't happen.

When I was in journalism school, we (the newspaper writers) called the broadcast majors "the see spot run" school of journalism-- no sentence over five words. This book is the see-spot-run school of fiction writing--no sentence over five words.

The best part of the book was the description of the food and drinks that they consumed, and they did drink a lot. In fact, now that I think about it, food writing or cookbook writing would be a perfect career for this woman. She wrote about food beautifully. Too bad the rest of the book was so bad. ...more

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Apr 14, 2022 Darlene rated it liked it

Shelves: romance, contemporary

3.5 stars

The first half of the book frustrated me. I found all the multiple POVs to be very confusing. It was hard for me to keep things straight in my head —who was married to whom, their children’s names, connections between the couples, etc. I finally had to make myself a Cheat Sheet and map out the characters. There was so much going on between them all. At each new chapter when the POV changed, I had to refresh my memory and had to remind myself who was speaking. So, once I took the time to ...more

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Jun 22, 2013 Stacy marked it as books-i-lost-interest-in

Shelves: audiobooks

This book was really interesting but I got turned off by the characters' frequent use of a curse word that insults my faith. I can tolerate some cussing, but this was a dealbreaker for me. ...more

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Jul 10, 2013 Debbie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I am never dissapointed with Elin Hilderbrand. I always get so involved with the characters that I am sad to see the book end. I love the Nantucket setting of all her books, and I enjoy the chance to follow the people who live there full time. I often have wondered what it would be like to live in a resort area, and these books answer that question.

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