Our Extraordinary Summer
A Novel

This was a quick, easy read for me. I enjoyed the outlandish descriptions of Hobby Island and am happy to say that I was blissfully unaware that this was a book two of a series. It worked as a stand alone about sisters who grew up with an angry, exacting father, who won sole custody of them, and sev......more

I really enjoyed this series. This is book #2 in this series but you could read it as a stand-alone book. Sisters Athena and Calista come together after their mother has passed away and they haven’t spoken to each other in years. They go to magical Hobby Island and they discover secrets throughout t......more

i was drawn in by the story of two sisters reconnecting on a scenic island, after a tumultuous childhood with their narcissistic father. i wasn’t expecting the emphasis on golf or the romance, which did not land for me. i’m not a fan of golf, and i didn’t care for the romantic interest—i was more in......more

thanks to netgalley for the arc of our extraordinary summer. it was one of those books that caught my attention because of its unique setting and family dynamics, and from the very first pages you understand that the real focus of the story is the two sisters and their broken relationship. tropes sist......more

This novel is a story of grief, family fracture, and the long, uneven work of reconciliation. The love story is present, but it is not the heart of the book. That place belongs, unmistakably, to the relationship between two sisters who have spent years estranged--the victim of the same man, shaped b......more