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There never was any way to predict who would be our subject. But if someone had told us, in the frigid, steel-skied middle of April, that most of our summer would be spent whispering about Grace and Eddie Pancik.. and Trevor Llewellyn and Madeline King.. and about the renowned landscape architect Benton Coe...our mouths might have dropped open in shock. No way. Not possible. They were some of the loveliest people we knew.A nice light fall that read just like those weekday soap operas that I use
Not a bad read. Kept my attention and told an okay story Good character development but lacked the emotional depth I expect. The beginning started off promising but kind of fizzled as it went along. I made it to the end but somewhere in the story it went from enticing and unexpected to predictable and lackluster. I listened to the audio and I think the readers made it a little more enjoyable than it otherwise might have been. This is my second Hilderbrand book and I felt the same way about the f...
I really enjoyed this book. It shows how rumors can fly around a small community even if they might not be true. Both of these families have issues and as the story goes along, they slowly unravel. I enjoyed the different characters. There were a few I wanted to slap and a few I wanted to comfort. It was an enjoyable audiobook. Great beach read.
Meh, this wasn't one of her best. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't really good, either. The plot was pretty predictable and unimaginative, and it just didn't have that spark that made me want to dig in and devour the story and the characters.What it did have, which I noticed early on and then became fixated on, was an over-abundance of ridiculously-named characters. I get really annoyed when authors use names that are difficult to spell, pronounce, or remember, as it seems like an unnecessary hardsh...
3 StarsNot bad. I enjoyed the story but never warmed up to the characters.
Nantucket is full of gossip this summer and most of it sounds like the childhood game of Telephone, nothing true but maybe people's names. While rumors usually have a kernel of truth to them, some of the rumors circulating around Nantucket are just complete fiction, made up to make someone feel like they had the latest news on someone else. Some of the gossip on Nantucket is true and leads to hurt feelings, ruined reputations, spoiled friendships, lost chances...Madeline King and Grace Pancik ar...
As the title implies, this is a novel about gossip and scandal among a tight knit group of friends and neighbors on Nantucket. For 80% of the novel, I was repulsed by the selfish, short-sighted, immature behavior of the adults, (I could excuse the bad behavior of the teens), When the proverbial shit hit the fan and the awful consequences of this behavior became apparent, the immerging of humble goodness in the main characters felt inauthentic, as if the author was grasping for an ending appropri...
I really enjoyed this novel. Elin managed an entertaining summer read involving friendship, betrayal, and love set in Nantucket.
It’s those Pesky Little Secrets that’ll Getcha!Best Friends Madeline King and Grace Pancik share everything, including their secrets. Little do they know, it’s their secrets that are going to wreck havoc in their lives.Madeline is a successful novelist who has writer’s block, until she uses her best friend’s love life as inspiration for her new book.Grace is married to Eddie Pancik, a successful Real Estate Agent/Developer on Nantucket. She has everything she’s ever wanted, but fulfillment escap...
Want a good beach read – a.k.a. weekend read, vacation read, or fireplace read? Here’s one. Elin Hilderbrand has made a name for herself penning novels set on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. Several years ago, I read one of hers, Summerland, and, while it was scenic, it was also thought-provoking.I enjoyed The Rumor, but more for fun than thought. It is filled with sympathetic characters – teens, parents, friends – who make bad choices until they get caught, at which point they atone. Tying it
I really liked this one!! It had lots of humor and small-town backstabbing and gossip, much like Liane Moriarty's novel Big Little Lies. Set yet again in Nantucket, where everybody knows everyone, all who live there feel like they belong in anyone's personal business. The Rumor is about friendship, love, and all of the messiness that hides beneath the surface. It's about marriage and best friends and sisters and forbidden crushes. It is tied all together in one big messy ribbon with the phrase "...
I basically enjoyed Elin Hildebrand book, "The Rumor"It has some fun plot points but was basically average. Two friends who are lifetime pals have serious difficulties that are the main thesis of the book. Lots of family secrets and misbehavior break them apart. Guess what happens in the end...... happily ever after! ZzzzzzCharacters are well developed and probably whatade me enjoy the book. I guess it would be a good beach book for some but we have a foot of snow and I am not very beachy these
