What a great summer read full of family, love, and relatabiliity. I look forward to Nancy Thayer as I know she's always going to have a hit summer book, and this was no exception. Loved the bond between the sisters and the owning a bookstore element!

This story hooked me from the very beginning! An emotional and heartwarming story about a family trying to reconnect after time seperates them.

The book was solidly middle-of-the-road. I stopped at 6%. Easy three to four stars for readers.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC.

Another good book by Nancy Thayer...might want to include a trigger warning for hoarding. As a daughter of a hoarder some of this was hard to read. As in most books, it was resolved way easier that it is resolved in real life. I liked the stories of the sisters and how they both resolved their issues.

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Name: The Summer We Started Over

Author: Nancy Thayer

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Rating: 5 star

Brief Summary: Follows a family living on Nantucket over the course of a life-changing summer

What I Enjoyed: The characters were very well developed. The story was similar to an Elin Hildebrand novel or a Debbie Macomber novel. I felt like I was in the story.

What I Disliked: Some of the chapters were a little long




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Nancy Thayer is always a must-read author for me but unfortunately The Summer we Started Over fell a little flat for me.

Eddie moves back to Nantucket to help her sister Barrett care for her father William. She left her fancy job in New York as an assistant to an author Dinah Lavender. The family’s history is filled with heart break and tragedy but it is nice how the characters grow together to overcome these tragedies.

I love how Nancy transports the reader to the summer beaches of Nantucket - it’s like a comfortable hug. But this book just wasn’t a home run for me.

I always look forward to Nancy Thayer's books- summer unofficially starts for me when I read them (even though I'm reading this in February). The Grant family- dad and two daughters- moves to Nantucket to start over after their brother dies. Loved reading this multi-generational story even though I knew how it would end, it was a satisfying read. Fans of Thayer will enjoy this one.

Publication date: April 23rd 2024
Review date February 3, 2024

This is a cute, heartwarming story but just not my favorite Nancy Thayer book. The writing and the story felt almost “immature” and left me feeling like I was reading a young adult romance novel.
It was an OK read for me but I know many will really enjoy it. 3 solid stars from me.

Thank you NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine and the author for a copy of free ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Another perfect summer read by Nancy Thayer. Set on Nantucket, the Grant family comes together, as one sister is opening a new store, the other, home to help. They are overcoming their grief having lost a brother, their mother leaving them, and a move to a new place previously. Eddie's boss, Dinah, is a funny character who adds to the story. Dove, their brother's former girlfriend, and her son appear and the family is pulled together even more. Add in a little drama, some romance, all's well that ends well, and there you have it.
Thanks to NetGalley, Ms Thayer, and Random House for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Summer We Started Over by Nancy Thayer published by Random House is a definite summer beach read! Thayer weaves the characters stories and personalities together in such a way that the reader eventually feels a part of the family.. Set on Nantucket, Thayer’s descriptions of the local sites and places takes the reader on a vacation.I loved this book: the characters, their individual stories of ups and downs, how they overcame their difficulties, and of course the setting.

I adore Nancy Thayer and her books are one of my must-reads every summer!

The Summer We Started Over is another one of Thayer's books set on Nantucket and follows two sisters for a summer on Nantucket. Eddie is the oldest and has returned for the summer to help Barrett with their father who has been down ever since moving to Nantucket after his wife left him and their brother died.

Eddie is working as an assistant to a famous author and is looking forward to the break from her needy employer while Barrett is finally making a lifelong dream a reality and opening a store on the island.

The story is a good one but I found that at times the timeline seemed a bit murky as time would pass but yet it'd still be Memorial Day weekend or whatever but that's mostly a me problem because I'm weird about timelines.

Otherwise it was a good meandering story and I enjoyed my time spent escaping from winter reading this book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine for an eARC copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you NetGalley for the complimentary eBook for reviewing purposes. This review is 100% my opinion of the title, The Summer We Started Over by Nancy Thayer.

Great read! Five stars! ✨

Growing up in a not so perfect world and one sister takes off to the city life, while the other stays behind. Also, a brother who falls in love with his sister’s best friend, Dove who also has a rough road and is forced to leave her home. Eddie returns home to Nantucket to enjoy a nice vacation with family and reconnects with her sister, Barrett. She’s stirred up by past memories after returning home and realizes how much she’s missed the island, but her life is in NYC.

Perfect book for the beach. It has happy times, family reconnecting, sad times, new adventures for all the characters, picaresque moments and mostly it has family and love!

Loved this book. Smelled the ocean as I turned the pages enveloped with the characters. Another great read by this amazing author! Made me laugh and made me cry. Totally worth it!

A quick beach read. Thayer paints a gorgeous picture of Nantucket. I found myself rooting for Eddie, Barrett and William to come out on the other side of their grief. Dinah added a dash of sass and humor. While I enjoyed the book, I often found myself feeling like I missed something, as if the story was not complete and the story skipped around a little.

This is a wonderful multigenerational story from Nancy Thayer that will make a perfect summer (or anytime) read. It’s full of love, heartbreak, family drama and more. Plus this all takes place on the beautiful island of Nantucket! What more could you want?
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this early copy in exchange for my honest review.

A fairly easy read of two sisters working together after family issues. Liked this one overall, easy to pick up and put down. Would be a good vacation read. Would recommend.

My second read by this author.
I knew it would be good but I didn't think it'd be this good!
A heartwarming story of two sisters that I really enjoyed very much. I finished this story in a couple of hours.
My favorite thing about this story is the setting of course. It is great to be back on Nantucket!
I thought Eddie was an unusual name for a girl and I laughed at first. As I read on however I finally decided it fit her perfectly laugh out loud.
I don't however like insta romances. I for one would enjoy getting to know a person first. But that's just me.
I feel like Barrett is more like me in a lot ways. I could totally connect with her.
In my opinion it is fast paced and with loveable characters. William is my favorite character.
5 stars for a well written story with rounded out characters and a gorgeous setting!
I highly recommend.
My thanks for a copy of this book. I was NOT required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are my own.

Nancy Thayer has herself another Nantucket winner. This one is about two sisters, Eddie 9named for Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Barrett, after Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The reason for their names becomes obvious when we learn that their father was a professor of romantic poetry.

Before I say more, I have to note with pleasure that Ms. Thayer has much reduced her use of high ponytails ( only two, both on the sisters), messy buns (none) and only the required number of sundresses. Happily, there is only one wearer of board shorts. As always, we have Nancy Thayer's product placements of names of island coffee shops, restaurants, and Ben and Jerry ice cream. And, of course, description of every meal eaten by her characters.

That off my chest, this is a lovely and moving story. And it has a wonderful character, Dinah Lavender, who is a best selling author of romance fiction. Dinah is eccentric and quirky and comes to live with the girls and their father in their old farmhouse. Barrett has just realized her dream of opening a shop selling handmade and unusual items in shades of blue.

In the course of that summer, many things change. Ideas about what the sisters want for their futures and acceptance of how these desires can become different. Then Dove, their best childhood friend reappears in their lives and becomes one of the most moving parts of the story. Also, you can probably guess early on what happens between William, the father and Dinah. I found the dog, Duke, and Duchess, the standoffish horse particularly delightful,

This is one of those Thayer books that gets its hooks into you quickly and keeps you reading to the foreseeable ending.

Thanks to NetGalley and the ;publisher for the chance to read an early copy of what is bound to be another best seller for Nancy Thayer.

Five plus stars from me for The Summer We Started Over. Nancy Thayer does it again with a Nantucket based beach read. The Summer We Started over is a story of family reconnection, a used bookstore in a barn and a romance novelist. It's a can't put downable book.

My thanks to #Net Galley for giving me the opportunity to early read this book in return for a fair and honest review.

The Summer We Started Over by Nancy Thayer This will be a good beach read for the young adults. Not so much for this older lady. Thanks to NetGalley for the chance at an early read.