I read this for two reasons--one is that it fullfills a Goodreads challenge, and while I do not knock myself out getting these badges, I have found that I have enjoyed the pursuit of them. I chose this particular book because I have never read anything by this author, and she is a favorite of a number of my friends on Goodreads, especially those who read in this genre more regularly than I do, and I have to say that while I won't be pursuing this authors whole catalogue, I did enjoy it.
Here is the story--Lifestyle blogger Hollis Shaw is struggling a bit. She has become a social media phenomenon, but at the expense of her family--both her husband and her teenaged daughter see her prioritizing her number of clicks over either of them, and while she protests this is not a fair characterization of her priorities, where she puts both her time and effort would be contrary to that. She really is pretty impressed with herself.
When she tragically loses her husband in a car accident, she finds herself struggling to move forward. He daughter pulls back further, and she has trouble connecting with her friends to get support--she does have a connection with one of her on-line followers, who she pours her heart out to, feels better for it, then gets ghosted by her.
Seeking comfort and a fresh start, she decides to host a "Five-Star Weekend" at her Nantucket home--this is defined as a weekend with people from four different periods of your life and yourself--the hook being that no one necessarily knows anyone but you. She invites a diverse group of women representing different eras of her life: her childhood best friend, her college roommate, a close friend from her thirties, and a mysterious blog follower who ghosted her. It is a weekend full of surprises and it ends up someplace very different than wheree it started.
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