📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Big Summer
AUTHOR: Jennifer Weiner
@jenniferweinerwrites
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: May 5, 2020
I had forgotten how much I loved Jennifer Weiner. So much so that once I started reading this book, I felt connected and had to share on my Instagram stories. Like her previous series, Good in Bed, this book has a plus size heroine. She is smart, entrepreneurial and stylish. And everything I want to be.
About halfway through this book, it takes a surprising turn. Like so surprising that I can’t even mention it here because I don’t wanna ruin it. The release summary doesn’t reference this plot line or the tone this book will take. And I’m not even mad about it.
I advise you to go into this book with the mind to let it take you to a different place than you expected. It’s ending is not earth shattering or anything. It’s just a different book than it is marketed and a solid read anyway. I give my rating based on the connection to the character and the way this book surprised me. Will totally be reading again.
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Small Summary:
Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn’t spoken one word to Drue in all this time—she doesn’t even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media—so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless.
Drue was always the one who had everything—except the ability to hold onto friends. Meanwhile, Daphne’s no longer the same self-effacing sidekick she was back in high school. She’s built a life that she loves, including a growing career as a plus-size Instagram influencer. Letting glamorous, seductive Drue back into her life is risky, but it comes with an invitation to spend a weekend in a waterfront Cape Cod mansion. When Drue begs and pleads and dangles the prospect of cute single guys, Daphne finds herself powerless as ever to resist her friend’s siren song.
*****
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.