*this review may contain spoilers

Honestly, I have been a bit of a reading slump but I decided to check this book out in hopes to regain my love of reading again. It did its job. I have never been so fascinated and invested within a book than I have with this one.

The writing style that Hilderbrand uses is truly unique and constantly makes the readers wanting to read more. The book follows a WIDE amount of characters and their summer in beach town Nantucket, specifically their experiences within Hotel Nantucket. This hotel has been perceived negatively in the past due to the horror relations that have involved this hotel and how a ghost continually haunts the guests and anyone within the hotel. However, a rich-man, Xavier Darling, rebuilt the hotel to be one of the finest hotels and hopes to be critiqued positively by a numerous amount of hotel reviewers. Xavier’s main goal is to impress hotel reviewer, Shelly Carpenter, and allow Hotel Nantucket to become the first hotel to receive 5 keys (which has never been given to any hotel).

I think what I particularly like about this book is that is follows a plethora of characters like the staff, guests, and ghosts of the hotel. I love multiple POV book, the best!! The book is a bit long but that just means more time getting invested with the storyline and characters that Hilderbrand presents. I wish I had read this book during the summer since it is set in a beach town but honestly with Hilderbrand’s writing, I still found a great read.

I would recommend if you are interested in exploring outside your preferred genre and I would suggest those that are in reading slumps to read this book, to get you out!

-Madison C.

The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand is available to check out from the Mission Viejo Library. It is also available to download for free from Libby.