The Weekenders
Fiction
Macmillan
May 17, 2016
Hardcover
464
Own copy
Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends-and it's something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead served with papers informing her that her island home is being foreclosed. To make matters worse, her husband is nowhere to be found. She turns to her island friends for help and support, but each of them has their own secrets and the clock is ticking as the mystery deepens. Cocktail parties and crab boil aside, Riley must find a way to investigate the secrets of Belle Island, the husband she might not really know, and the summer that could change everything.
My review:
First of all, let me state right off that I'm a big fan of Andrews books, and I honestly don't know why. She's not at the top of the list for a wonderful writing style, her books generally follow a simple plot point (except this one was a bit different, more on that later), and her characters are usually quite shallow. With all that being said, I just really enjoy reading her books! I think a lot of it has to do with her settings (almost exclusively in the south), and she has a way of writing scenes that make me laugh out loud. This book was a bit of a diversion from her typical "beach read". It has a mystery element to it where we have to figure out who dunnit? Of course there are a bunch of suspects since the victim was dirty dealing all over town. This made the book a bit less humorous than most of her previous ones, but I still enjoyed the goings on of the small island town. I could have done without the predictable love story, but this is a trademark of all Andrews books, so I would have given up on them a long time ago if this really bothered me too much.
Bottom line, this has reviews all over the place on Goodreads, but I just love Mary Kay Andrews for reasons I can't put my finger on, and you can bet I'll be in line to see her (she always comes to my Indie bookstore on tour!) and purchase next year's novel 🙂
