What was your last summer read? I finished up The Summer Pact earlier this month for my last summer book read of the year.
The Summer Pact is about
four individuals that meet at college and form a lifelong friendship. One when tragically dies, the others promise
to always get together to help each other if any of the three of them are in a
time of need. When Hannah finds her fiancé
in bed with another woman, she finds herself in crisis. When the friends gather together to help out
Hannah, will they all make changes to their own lives and move forward?
My thoughts on this novel:
· I have enjoyed Emily Giffin’s books in the past and especially enjoyed Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and Baby Proof. This one was not as good as her other novels.
· The story was slow in the middle, and it took me a long time to finish it.
· This novel is a look at friendship and the lengths we will go to for our friends. It also delves into grief and how everyone deals with it differently and how friends can help.
· The story is told through the three point of views of the three friends. I didn’t feel like I liked or connected with the characters.
· The romance came very late in the novel and then it seemed to be immediately tied up in the epilogue. I did not feel the romantic connection between the love interests.
· I really didn’t like the character Lainey. She was an actress that acted very immature for a thirty something. She needed more of a growth story to me. I also didn’t like how she very obviously was an alcoholic, but her friends did not help her with this problem at all.
· I thought we would get more of Summer’s story and her untimely death and there would be a bit of a mystery. It just remained a sad unexplained traumatic death from their college days.
Overall, I was
disappointed by The Summer Pact, but I will definitely try another Emily Giffin
book.
Book Source: Review copy from NetGalley. Thank-you! Opinions expressed in this review are
completely my own.
Thank you for the review.
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