All the Summers In Between by Brooke Lea Foster
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
2.5 Stars rounded up because I was curious enough to know how it ended.
I'm in a quandary here. This is the second book I've read by this author, and one thing I can say for sure is that her writing style has not changed from "On Gin Lane." As a matter of fact, I can very nearly copy my other review. My opinion of this author hasn't changed.
Many people love an angsty novel with a mystery or two that gets beaten like a dead horse. I could not feel anything for either Thea or Margot. Thea seemed to be a weak-spined, very needy person who let Margot use her and use her and use her. That is not only true for the book set in 1967 when they were 20 (old enough to know better), but also again when we hit 1977.
The mystery from when the girls were young is fairly simple to figure out. On the other hand, what's going on with Margot's husband, Willy, is just nearly unbelievable. However, for the era, it is a little easier to believe.
I did finish the entire novel, so it is readable.
ARC was provided by the publisher Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster, the author, and Edelweiss/ATTL.
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I'm in a quandary here. This is the second book I've read by this author, and one thing I can say for sure is that her writing style has not changed from "On Gin Lane." As a matter of fact, I can very nearly copy my other review. My opinion of this author hasn't changed.
Many people love an angsty novel with a mystery or two that gets beaten like a dead horse. I could not feel anything for either Thea or Margot. Thea seemed to be a weak-spined, very needy person who let Margot use her and use her and use her. That is not only true for the book set in 1967 when they were 20 (old enough to know better), but also again when we hit 1977.
The mystery from when the girls were young is fairly simple to figure out. On the other hand, what's going on with Margot's husband, Willy, is just nearly unbelievable. However, for the era, it is a little easier to believe.
I did finish the entire novel, so it is readable.
ARC was provided by the publisher Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster, the author, and Edelweiss/ATTL.
View all my reviews
SYNOPSIS :"When wealthy, impulsive summer girl Margot meets hardworking and steady local girl Thea in the summer of 1967, the unlikely pair become fast friends, working alongside one another in a record store and spending every spare moment together. But after an unspeakable incident on one devastating August night, they don’t see one another for ten years…until Margot suddenly reappears in Thea’s life, begging for help and harboring more than one dangerous secret. Thea can’t bring herself to refuse her beloved friend—but she also knows she can’t fully trust her either.
Unfulfilled as a housewife, Thea enjoys the dazzling sense of adventure Margot brings to her life, but will the truth of what happened to them that fateful summer ruin everything? Testing the boundaries of how far she’ll go for a friend, Thea is forced to reckon with her uncertain future while trying to decide if some friends are meant to remain in the past.
Set in the dual timelines of 1967 and 1977, All the Summers In Between is at once a mesmerizing portrait of a complex friendship, a delicious glimpse into a bygone Hamptons, and a powerful coming-of-age for two young women during a transformative era."
Unfulfilled as a housewife, Thea enjoys the dazzling sense of adventure Margot brings to her life, but will the truth of what happened to them that fateful summer ruin everything? Testing the boundaries of how far she’ll go for a friend, Thea is forced to reckon with her uncertain future while trying to decide if some friends are meant to remain in the past.
Set in the dual timelines of 1967 and 1977, All the Summers In Between is at once a mesmerizing portrait of a complex friendship, a delicious glimpse into a bygone Hamptons, and a powerful coming-of-age for two young women during a transformative era."
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