Elin Hilderbrand never disappoints. I really liked this book a lot. The only criticism I have as there were a LOT of secondary characters to keep track of. I highly recommend and hope she does a sequel. to this book.

Elin Hilderbrand has created yet another perfect beach read for this summer! The Hotel Nantucket is a fun, relaxing read that draws you in with exciting events and lovable characters.

The story starts with our main character, Elizabeth, or how she prefers to be called Lizbet, on the picturesque Nantucket. Lizbet’s story begins with heartbreak when her best friend and boyfriend of many years breaks her heart. She decides to leave the restaurant they have built up together to start a new adventure. As luck would have it, the new and improved Hotel Nantucket is looking for a hotel manager. Lizbet sees this as her opportunity to start afresh. The Hotel Nantucket is everything you could ever wish from a boutique, luxury hotel. Just reading about it made me want to book a room instantly. As the new hotel manager, Lizbet gets to hire the brand-new staff, and her picks do not disappoint. From lovable Edie, to fair but kind Magda, each character brings their own unique story.

The new hotel is just one aspect of this story. The ghost brings a new dimension to The Hotel Nantucket. The hotel is haunted by Grace, a young maid who worked in the hotel back in 1922 and unfortunately passed away due to a fire. But Grace is a kind soul who does not bring harm or scary hauntings, rather she is nurturing and wants her story to be told. She loves to look after, and peek in, at the hotel guests.
Our story revolves around the first summer the hotel is open and the roller coaster of events that all the employees go through. Will Lizbet be successful? Will she find love again? Will the hotel be a success or a flop? Will Grace ever find peace?

I love a good beach read and once again Elin Hildrenbrand allowed me to be a part of her Nantucket. I enjoy how she transports you to this quintessential island town where you get to meet new characters and visit with the old.

Thank you to NetGalley and Little, Brown and Company for an advanced copy and my honest review.

The Hotel Nantucket is an excellent beach read by Elin Hilderbrand. I do not think that the Queen of Beach Reads would ever disappoint me though! I love how Hilderbrand’s writing can instantly bring me back to all of my Cape Cod vacations. She captures perfectly how magical it can be. I love the backstory about the hotel and how the staff members bonded and made connections with each other. The ghost story/murder mystery part was unique and made the story even better.

I am a huge fan of Elin Hildebrand and have been lucky enough to meet her twice. She is as lovely and funny as you hope she will be and more. Hotel Nantucket is another incredible book by Elin. Each time she writes a book, it only makes me wants to visit Nantucket more. The thing I loved most about this book is that she sprinkled in characters from past books like Easter eggs! This is a must read and, as always, I look forward to her next book!

This was such a fun read! This is only my second Elin book (also read 28 Summers) and this was so different. It was light, fun, and fresh.
What I loved about this story was all of the characters. They all had a back-story mystery, but also were really developed and fun to read. This story had love, mystery, romance, and kept me at the edge of my seat - waiting to find out if The Hotel Nantucket got that elusive 5-key review!
I was so caught up in the characters, developing romances, and the hotel day-to-days, that I almost forgot the reader has yet to find out about all of these back mysteries!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, it was satisfying from start to finish!
This will make a great summer and vacation read!
Thank you to Net Galley and Little Brown and Company for this advance copy - I loved it!

I shudder to think of a summer without a new Elin Hilderbrand book to savor! Her attention to detail in describing the sights, sounds and scents of Nantucket is unmatched. There's always a bit of drama, a dash of suspense, an enviable friendship and a red hot romance or two or three. This one even has a spunky, charming ghost (but not in a weird way!). Definitely add this to your ever-growing book stack.

As always, Hilderbrands books are always a perfect summer read. This book sucks you in from the start, telling the story of all the staff in a start up hotel on Nantucket. This book hooks you and makes you want to find out more about everyone. There is also a mystery element as the characters try to figure out who the secret hotel blogger is and impress them. Overall this book was a very enjoyable read.

This was a slow burn of a read for me, but that made me like it all the more. It took me awhile to warm up to the main character, Lizbet, but once I did, I found myself wanting to pick the book up again and again. This might not be my favorite of Hilderbrand's novels, but it was fun and perfect for a kickoff to summer read.

When Lizabet and her long time partner split up, she knows she can’t go back to the restaurant that they worked at together. When an English billionaire purchases an abandoned hotel with plans to restore it and open a brand new luxury hotel with the goal of being the first hotel to receive Five Keys from a mysterious travel blogger, she takes the opportunity to apply to be the general manager. She hires a staff full of interesting characters in their own right, and we follow their story through their first summer season.

There’s a little bit of everything in this book: mystery, supernatural elements, betrayal and secrets, romance. It’s told from multiple viewpoints of the staff, and it had the attention to detail that we all have grown to love from Hilderbrand. You grow to love the characters and feel like you’re on Nantucket with them. I also love the way so many of Hilderbrand’s stories interlace with each other, and loved the elements in this one from The Blue Bistro.

Another amazing Elin Hilderbrand!! You truly feel as though you are staying at the Hotel Nantucket! I would love to spend a rainy day snuggled up in one of the rooms with a Hilderbrand book!! Love the familiar characters and places, can’t recommend her books enough!

Well summer is approaching and it is time for a new Elin Hildebrand beach book. An old rundown hotel in a prime downtown location on Nantucket has been sold. The new owner, British billionaire Xavier Darling, buys it sight unseen and then sets out to turn it into a showplace. First he hires an architect, a team of contractors and a top interior decorator to refurbish and decorate the structure. Then he hires Lizbeth Keaton, the former partner is a top Nantucket restaurant, as the general manager.
Lizbeth hires an interesting group to run the hotel. Most of the employees have a dark secret or some problem. However they all work well together. Even some of the guest are hiding their true identities and motivations.
Then Xavier challenges the staff to earn a covet 5th star from an undercover hotel reviewer. That and a weekly $1000 bonus for an exemplary employee, motivates the staff.
The hotel has a ghost, 19 year old Grace who was burned in a fire set by her lover’s wife in 1922. Grace refuses to leave the hotel until the real story of her death is revealed. When a story about the existence of Grace’s ghost is published, bookings at the hotel increase dramatically.
As the summer progresses, secrets are reveled, romances blossom and the staff does their best to win the 5 star review.
Although the real Hotel Nantucket is nothing like the glorified hotel in the story, it is one of the real places on Nantucket that are mentioned in the story. At the end of book the author lists hotels, stores, restaurants and local attractions that might appeal to a visitor.
Needless to say this book would be a perfect read for the summer or anytime.
I received this ARC from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

From experiencing the upheaval to the sublime this story and its characters have it all. Fast paced and surprised throughout
Thank you netgalley and the publisher for this arc

I hated to get to the end of The Hotel Nantucket. I loved this story and the characters so much that saying goodbye to them felt like a sad departure from this hotel. This is only the second Elin Hilderbrand novel that I have read. Although Hilderbrand is most often described as a romance writer, this book if far more than the limitations, which that simple description suggests. There is romance in The Hotel Nantucket, but there is also mystery and complexity and depth.

On the surface, The Hotel Nantucket is about the resurrection of a hotel with a ghostly and sad past that seems ready for destruction. In Hilderbrand's novel, this hotel escapes its abandoned fate and is rebuilt into a hotel with a luxurious future. This resurrection also fits many of the characters, who populate this novel. Several of the characters are starting over, building new lives, as is the hotel.

Although the hotel is described in loving detail, it is the people who work in the hotel who command Hilderbrand's attention. Each employee is described, becoming a character with depth and personality and given a role within the hotel. Certainly some characters are given more time and detail, but by the end of the novel, the readers feel like they know these characters/employees quite well. Readers also find themselves attached to several of the guests. That depth of character development is what makes leaving the hotel and this novel so difficult.

I want to thank the author and Little, Brown and Company for providing this ARC for me to read and review. The opinions stated above are my own interpretation of this novel. I also want to thank NetGalley for introducing me to Hilderbrand's novels. While I thought the first Hilderbrand novel that I read on NetGallery was very good, The Hotel Nantucket is perfect and was a wonderful novel to spend some quality time reading. The end, by the way, was among the best I have ever read.

When I saw this book on NetGalley I immediately requested a copy. Erin Hildebrand has been one of my favorite authors for a long time.

Her characters are so well developed I feel like I have known them forever and her descriptive setting and historical research if the area have you feeling as if you have spent many month in the community of Nantucket.

The book has a touch of the paranormal, which I love. Along with a mystery, romance, and adultery. How can we go wrong!

This book did not disappoint. I enjoyed every minute of the story. I highly recommend.

Thanks you to NetGalley and Little, Brown and Company for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

Lots of authors are compared to Elin Hilderbrand however she is simply the best! A perfect novel to read on the beach, the plane or the couch. Set on beautiful Nantucket as usual.

I love Elin Hilderbrand books so I was thrilled to receive an early copy of this one. Unfortunately, it wasn’t my favorite. There was simply too much going on, and too many plotlines to find it quite as enjoyable as her others. I still flew through it, but it could have done without several story elements.

Elin Hilderbrand’s books are the highlight of my summer! I look forward to her books every June and don’t know what I will do once she retires.

The Hotel Nantucket was amazing! There were a few spots in the beginning that I did not love. I felt she was trying too hard to be cool and young with references to certain things. It took me a minute to get on board with the ghost storyline. But I loved how that all came together in the end. I loved all of the characters, some more than others!! I enjoyed all of their stories and development and growth over the summer. I definitely had an uneasy feeling about Richie in the beginning but he grew on me and I was very disappointed with how that turned out.

Elin’s books, especially this one, always leave me wanting more. There could always be a book two because I want to check in next summer and see how everyone is doing!

Summer’s basically in full swing, which means it’s time to bring on the beach reads—and what a better way than with a book that takes place at a hotel that is specifically for people who want to hit the beach for the summer on Nantucket. The Hotel Nantucket is written by Nantucket’s queen bee, Elin Hilderbrand, and, surprisingly, this is the first I’ve read of her more typical summer reads, having only read Summer of ’69 before now. Never needing a beach more than being more or less homebound for two-and-a-half years, I was ready to be transported to the beach and enjoy my stay at this luxury hotel.

I really want to take a few weeks off next summer and go visit Nantucket. I’m not sure I’m a fancy enough person, I’ll be honest, but it sounds like an idyllic place to spend a summer, and Hilderbrand does such a good job of painting the location that you feel like you’re truly there. I was invested in mostly everyone’s storyline (sorry, Grace), and I was rooting for everyone to end up with their happily ever after. Though I suspected one of the big reveal moments from the very beginning (Shelley Carpenter), it didn’t take away from my enjoyment of the story—I kind of felt like I was a guest at the hotel, too.

Hilderbrand really knows how to navigate having a large number of characters and serving them well. There were easily 20 characters whose lives we followed, but I was never confused as to who was who and what they were doing. I loved how we just got little bits of information here and there and how everything came together at the end so nicely. I’m actually surprised she was able to wrap up all the loose ends as well as she did. The way the author was able to make all these people come to life and make them so believable is truly remarkable—she’s really gifted in that way.

The ghost story was one of the main plotlines, but I had no interest in it and thought it just made the story drag a little bit. There were enough threads and characters that the addition of Grace wasn’t really adding anything for me—especially because she wasn’t really even doing anything to help move the plot along (other than her existence, which could have easily been swapped out for something like Louis’s chess-playing or even the great food from The Blue Bistro). That whole part fell flat to me, and it’s ultimately what changed my mind from giving this book a higher rating.

That being said, I’m very interested to read another one of Hilderbrand’s Nantucket stories (I really hope none of the other ones have any ghosts in them), and I’ve heard that The Blue Bistro and The Beach Club are popular, so I’ll probably reach for one of those next. Maybe once a summer I’ll dive into Nantucket and see where the summer takes me.

4 STARS

Lizbet is coming off a nasty break up with her ex and business partner, JJ, when she is hired by billionaire Xavier Darling to run the storied Hotel Nantucket. He has just purchased this, sight unseen - despite the multiple failures it has encountered in its more than one hundred year history, as well as the rumors of a ghost. Lizbet puts together a crew and brings the hotel to life (including said ghost), attempting to place it on the map in the Nantucket hospitality scene. Told from a variety of perspectives (Lizbet, the ghost, Nantucket locals), Hilderbrand has created a community that the reader is rooting for, as well as the success of the hotel.

Such a fun read and perfect for vacation as the whole story embodies vacay vibes! I would argue the only fault I found in this was the description of menial things: clothing, makeup, etc. It took away from what was a charming and heartfelt story. Overall, very happy and would definitely recommend!

Thank you Little, Brown and Company ​and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book.
I was not expecting this! I thoroughly enjoyed The Hotel Nantucket. The ghost was a surprise element (I started reading without reading a synopsis) that I didn't think I'd enjoy as much as I did; however, she really held the story together. I think this is my favorite Hilderbrand book to date. Will recommend to friends as a great summer pool/beach read.