The Five-Star Weekend

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars | 41,166 ratings

Price: 9.99

Last update: 08-15-2024


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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket: After tragedy strikes, food blogger Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket.

Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect. She’s the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis’s perfect life—her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline—grow deeper.

So when Hollis hears about something called a “Five-Star Weekend”—one woman organizes a trip for her best friend from each phase of her life: her teenage years, her twenties, her thirties, and midlife—she decides to host her own Five-Star Weekend on Nantucket. But the weekend doesn’t turn out to be a joyful Hallmark movie.

The husband of Hollis’s childhood friend Tatum arranges for Hollis’s first love, Jack Finigan, to spend time with them, stirring up old feelings. Meanwhile, Tatum is forced to play nice with abrasive and elitist Dru-Ann, Hollis’s best friend from UNC Chapel Hill. Dru-Ann’s career as a prominent Chicago sports agent is on the line after her comments about a client’s mental health issues are misconstrued online. Brooke, Hollis’s friend from their thirties, has just discovered that her husband is having an inappropriate relationship with a woman at work. Again! And then there’s Gigi, a stranger to everyone (including Hollis) who reached out to Hollis through her blog. Gigi embodies an unusual grace and, as it happens, has many secrets.

The Five-Star Weekend is a surprising and captivating story about friendship, love, and self-discovery set on Nantucket. It will be a weekend like no other.

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Top reviews from the United States

Panamera
5.0 out of 5 stars First Time Reading Elin Hilderbrand
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2024
Oh Lord! What a great book! Reading it felt as good as eating all the delicious food therein. Recipes would have been nice, though ????
It was easy to like and care about the characters.
A perfect summer read. Now I’ll have to read everything else by EH.
PS: I was in the path of TS Debby so this really kept me entertained instead of worrying about flooding. Maybe the next one I’ll get to read in the sunshine on the beach.
Mary P.
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun beach read
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2024
Liked reading about summers in Nantucket. Characters were fun. Will steal some ideas for a girls weekend myself one day.
E. B. Reads
5.0 out of 5 stars Really good!!
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2024
I really enjoyed this book. Elin's books have been recommended to me over and over and I'm so glad I finally picked one up. I needed a fun, light palette cleanser and this one definitely did the job. I'm looking forward to reading more.
Michelle A. Storment
5.0 out of 5 stars One of Hilderbrand's Best!
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2024
I am an avid reader of Hildebrand's books and love the pictures that she paints of life in Nantucket. I loved this book and feel it is her best one yet!!!
Amazon Customer
3.0 out of 5 stars Not her best novel
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2024
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Elin Hildebrand's books!! I have all of them and I even go back to read some of them multiple times! That being said, I don't know that I will be re-reading this one
The main character in this novel has gone through some very disappointing, hurtful events in her life, and now needs to make some major changes. She decided to take a break from her every day life and try out this thing she had read about online. She decided to host a weekend with the women that she had considered her best/closest friends through each "stage" of her life. She invites each one of these women and her daughter to her beach house! I have to honestly say that I was kinda shocked by some of the behavior from some of the women, especially since they've been invited to such a lovely weekend and they are being doted on! Wow! I'm not sure if Hildebrand meant for these women to come across as rude and entitled, but they definitely sounded that way. I really wished the main character would have called everyone out on their bad behavior and thrown them all out and started over with a self indulgent weekend! In the end, Hildebrand resolved any and all conflicts and wrapped it up nice and neat.
It wasn't a complete disaster, but it definitely does not meet up with the expectations I have when I see the name Elin Hildebrand on a novel.
A. Austin
4.0 out of 5 stars Wish there was a 4 1/2 star rating
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2024
This was my favorite of the Elin Hilderbrand books I have read - such a variety of interesting characters, a story that build throughout and has some interesting well written side stories that all contribute. Not quite a 5 star for me, but I wish I could give it 4 1/2 stars. A wonderful summer read!
sandra
5.0 out of 5 stars engaging and entertaining
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2024
With the twists and turns it was hard to put this book down. I didn’t want it to end. Real life drama between long time good and not so good friends. Would love to be invited to a 5 star weekend back in my hometown.
Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2024
This is an interesting and intriguing book concerning a very difficult circumstance. All of the smaller intrigues just make it better.
It is a pageburner for sure.

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