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Family Reunion by Nancy Thayer – a Review

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Family Reunion by Nancy Thayer – a Review

 

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Eleanor Sunderland loves living on the Nantucket cliffside, in a charming home that has been in her family for decades. Now widowed, she looks forward to the arrival of her children and grandchildren for an annual family reunion, eager for the life and laughter that will soon fill the air.

But Eleanor’s island idyll is shattered when her money-driven children suggest she sell the house and move to a retirement community. She finds a lone ally in her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, Ari, who moves in with her for the summer. Ari longs for a change of scenery, to stray from the path her parents have set for her. What she does not expect is an electric romantic spark with a Nantucket local, Cal, whose kind heart and charisma have her absolutely smitten.

With plenty of her signature Nantucket magic, Nancy Thayer brings both Eleanor and Ari on a summer beyond their wildest imaginations, filled with exciting connections, old and new.

 

 

 

Review:

Family Reunion by Nancy Thayer was a wonderful heartwarming standalone novel taking place in Nantucket, with two wonderful heroines and their family. Eleanor Sunderland, our heroine, loves her life living in Nantucket, and though she is widowed and alone in this big house by the ocean, she is happy and content.   When the family comes to visit to celebrate her 70th birthday, they try to pressure her to sell.  Her daughter, Alicia and son, Cliff want her to sell it so that can make millions, claiming she can go to a nice retirement home. Eleanor has no intention to allow her children to take what she still loves. Ari the granddaughter (the other heroine)  is awesome, and loves spending time with her grandmother in Nantucket.  Especially in the busy summer. 

Ari has just broken her engagement with her boyfriend, whom she now knows she does not love him, even if they been friends since school.  She decides to spend the summer at Nantucket with her grandmother, and starts a job working as a counselor at a camp for children, especially those that have no money.  Ari meets new friends that work at the camp, as well as others that are from the wealthy side.  I really loved everything about Ari, and how much she loved her grandmother, both watching tv mysteries, cooking and just listening to her grandmother telling stories of the past. Personally, I did not like Alicia, since she was totally money hungry, even though her husband made good money as a surgeon, but Alicia always wanted more and more. 

As Eleanor and Ari enjoy the wonderful summer in Nantucket, there are a number of issues that pop up along the way. Ari meets the brother of a friend, whom she will begin to have feelings for, but than an unexpected issue could destroy their budding relationship.   Eleanor begins to spend time with a widowed male neighbor, and the two-start spending free time enjoying the wonderful local fun and friends.   Ari will also discover that her father might be cheating on her mother, which will add to the drama, which is part of their summer. This is a true family drama, filled with romance, greedy family members, infidelity, which affects them all. 

Family Reunion was a delightful enjoyable read from start to finish. This story centers around two great heroines in Eleanor and Ari.  Nancy Thayer wrote a beautiful, heartwarming story, in wonderful Nantucket atmosphere, which was such a wonderful book that you should be reading.

Reviewed by Barb

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A Nantucket Wedding by Nancy Thayer -a Review

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A Nantucket Wedding by Nancy Thayer -a Review

 

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A few years after losing her beloved husband, Alison is doing something she never thought she would do again: getting married. While placing the finishing touches on her summer nuptials, Alison is anxious to introduce her fiancé, David, to her grown daughters: Felicity, a worried married mother of two, and Jane, also married but focused on her career. The sisters have a somewhat distant relationship and Alison hopes that the wedding and the weeks leading up to the ceremony will give the siblings a chance to reconnect, as well as meet and get to know David’s grown children.

As the summer progresses, it is anything but smooth sailing. Felicity stumbles upon a terrible secret that could shatter her carefully cultivated world. Jane finds herself under the spell of her soon-to-be stepbrother, Ethan, who is as charming as he is mysterious. And even Alison is surprised (and slightly alarmed) by her new blended family. Revelations, intrigue, resentments—as the Big Day approaches, will the promise of bliss be a bust?
      
Against the gorgeous backdrop of the sunswept island of Nantucket, Nancy Thayer sets the stage for a walk down the aisle no one will ever forget

 

 

Review:

A Nantucket Wedding by Nancy Thayer is sweet story of two families brought together by a Wedding. Alison, who lost her husband a few years ago, never thought she would find love again; but when she meets David, who also lost his spouse years before, she has another chance at happiness.  When David and Alison decide to get married again, they begin to plan a wedding in Nantucket.  Both have married and grown children, and grandchildren. 

Alison wants her daughters to meet David’s family and try to bring them all together during the summer at David’s Nantucket mansion.   We get to meet Alison’s two daughters, Jane and Felicity, who have been somewhat distant over the years. Felicity has two children, and her husband is a workaholic, who doesn’t have time to spend with them; and Felicity begins to suspect that he is having an affair with his personal assistant.    Jane is happily married, with both being successful lawyers, but she finds herself changing as she grows older.  She and Scott never wanted children, only to work and have fun travelling.  Now Jane finds herself yearning for a child, and her husband is dead set against it.  When the girls arrive in Nantucket, both Felicity and Jane begin to grow closer, and enjoy being able to talk about the things in their lives that is causing trouble.  As the family continues to get together each weekend, prior to the wedding, we learn about each of their own problems. 

Jane and Scott’s marriage slowly begins to fall apart, neither agreeing on the subject of children.  When Jane insists that he go to Nantucket, Scott will refuse, and leave for a hiking trip, with a hint of a possible divorce.    Felicity confronts her husband about his assistant, and though she managed to bring him one weekend to Nantucket, he came away with bitter and jealous thoughts of the rich family Alison is marrying into, and continues his workaholic ways, ignoring the family.  Though this disrupts their lives, Jane and Felicity become so much closer, as sisters should be.

Poppy will confront Alison as interfering with her takeover of her father’s business, but Alison will prove that she has Poppy’s best interest in mind, especially since Poppy is pregnant.  This will somewhat makes their relationship a little better.

As the wedding gets closer, things will happen that will change things for all.  Rather than me spoil it for you, I suggest you read this book.  A Nantucket Wedding was a nice storyline of families, issues and angst dividing them, relationships built, and a wedding that brings them all together.  I did like Alison, David, Jane and Felicity.  I thought at first Ethan was cute, and nice; but by the end he was just a flirt, who had no serious intentions.   Noah was a jerk, Scott was too stubborn, and Poppy wasn’t very likeable.  But overall, I thought this was a very good story that kept my attention throughout.  This makes a perfect read for the beach or when you have a day to yourself just to read.

Reviewed by Barb

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