28 Summers

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The love affair between Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud begins in 1993, when Mallory’s brother, Cooper and his two best friends Fray and Jake visit Mallory in Nantucket on Labor Day weekend. I also felt there was some repetitive material, which is entirely expected when the plot involves two people meeting over Labor Day weekend each year. This is my introduction to Elin Hilderbrand, an author that I am aware is loved by many and after reading this, an epic love story set mainly in Nantucket that just tugs on your heartstrings, I can understand why. They have set their sites on smashing the current world record of 263 days for a tandem ride and we talk about where the idea came from, how to prepare for an event as huge as this and how to handle the nervous conversation with your boss! When Ursula decides to run for president, she comes to Nantucket and asks (pretty much demands) Mallory to stop seeing Jake.

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We have been attacked on our own soil for the first time since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Link has no idea how Jake and his mother know each other, but Jake asks Link to tell Mallory to hang on, because he's on his way.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. He does, and it turns out to be Jake McCloud, the husband of a current presidential candidate, who agrees to come immediately. It's no secret this story doesn't end well (from book summary) and we know the storyline is based on a "Same Time Next Year" movie scenario so perhaps that's why 28 Summers made me feel kind of down. 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 always knew this was going to be good, but didn't dare to hope it would turn out to be a five star read for me.

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Each married to someone else, with busy lives and happy families, they've managed to keep their secret and to keep their love alive. How would you feel if you realized your partner has cheated every year since you have been together with someone else? Mallory has just inherited her aunt's cottage on Nantucket, so she agrees to host her brother's bachelor party over Labor Day weekend. Karen lives life as a modern-day ‘Alchemist’, passionate about turning challenge into opportunity and transforming the difficult stuff into ‘gold'. Malory, along with her brothers best buddy Jake, embark on a Same Time Next Year affair that may have begun innocently, but gets rather complicated as their life moves forward.I’m still open to the possibility that I might like a different book of hers in the future, but we’ll see! I didn’t necessarily agree with the decisions that the characters made in their lives but…as a piece of fiction I allowed myself to go along with the story.

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Mallory and Jake have been seeing each other for 28 summers, meeting but once a year, over Labor weekend, replicating aspects of their first summer meeting in Nantucket in 1993 that become traditional, when Jake accompanied his best friend, Cooper, Mallory's brother, with friend Fray, coming to visit Mallory, at the beach cottage she had inherited from her Aunt Greta. These days I work as a CEO for a fitness company with a determination to show that living a life of purpose and earning a living are not mutually exclusive. While the events of the story take place over 28 Labor Day weekends, we only see them together for maybe a quarter of those long weekends—and even that is a generous estimate. While the story comes down clearly on the side of all-encompassing love, Mallery has struck a careful balance: There is just enough sex to be spicy, just enough swearing to be naughty, and just enough heartbreak to avoid being cloying.But that’s a pretty thin justification, since at some point over the years two unmarried people would more reasonably choose long-distance over being remorseless cheaters. I couldn’t believe Mallory was indignantly screaming about what a good person she was after learning that a guy she’d dated was married. My only real drawback was that after witnessing the characters and how their love grew over all these years, the ending was just too abrupt for my liking. The situation between the two star crossed lovers, Jake and Mallory, doesn't make a whole lot of sense - there is never a concrete, truly believable reason as to why they cannot just be together all the time and must only be "Same Time Next Year" lovers. Ursula is soon pregnant, and Mallory also ends up pregnant from a hook-up with a childhood friend of her brother's, Fray.

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Her storytelling is just so engaging, so warmhearted, and I found myself rooting for these characters. My mission is to show my kids, and anyone else who cares to listen, that the things above can all be true at the same time. In the book’s prologue, the book's beloved and deeply flawed female protagonist dies of cancer at a young age. This was my first book by this author and while it wasn’t a bad book, it wasn’t all that great for me either.I finally got curious because “28 Summers” has been the number one best seller on the New York Times list for weeks—- maybe months! The sequel to It Ends With Us (2016) shows the aftermath of domestic violence through the eyes of a single mother. Their friendship blossoms as they help each other, offering support, hard truths, and loving backup.