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READ & DOWNLOAD ñ The Islanders Usa owns and runs Block Island’s beloved whoopie pie café She came to this uiet space eleven years ago newly divorced and with a young daughter and built a life for them here To her customers and friends Joy is a model of independence hard working and happy And mostly she is But this summer she’s thrown off balance A food truck from a famous New York City brand is roving around the island selling goodies and threatening her businessLu Trusdale is spending the summer on her in laws’ dime living on Block Island with her two young sons while her surgeon husband commutes to the mainland hospital When Lu’s second The Islanders by Meg Mitchell Moore is perfect summer chick lit entertainment Not much brain power needed to read this one It s an escape with some interesting ideas and plotsThe story begins with a prologue with a death that brought unbidden raw tears from a man This is in August and the reader knows a person is dead and a man is forlornThe story begins in June and is character driven Anthony begins the story and we learn that he is a disgraced author kicked out of his home by his wife and living in a dilapidated house rent freeJoy is a single mom with a business making whoopy pies She has a twelve year old daughter Maggie who is resourceful and sweet yet on the cusp of teenage angstLu is a stay at home mother of two little boys Her husband is a surgical resident who is rarely home Lu has started a secret food blog casting herself as a stay at home dad Lu s mother in law rented a summer home for Lu and her family so everyone could be close in the summer This poses a problem as both Lu s husband and mother in law feel Lu should be ONLY a mother and spend 247 with her children Lu is the character I had most difficulty withAnthony lives on the same street as Lu so they become acuaintances Their friendship grows by sharing confidences It s a great friendship if you can believe itAnthony meets Joy and they have a rocky start but end up than friends Anthony though hasn t been true to Joy and posed himself as a single man with a different last name He wanted to hide his shame from Joy Well you can guess where that leadsThe biggest mystery is about Anthony His father is a famous author and he has the dad complex of never receiving his father s love The mystery of who turned him in for plagiarism was not a difficult mystery to solve Plus I guessed being a big fan of Meg Wolitzer the reason for his father s writing success Author Moore did write a good mystery as to who was the dead person The reader doesn t know until the endThis is a solid chick lit story It s fair to good

READ & DOWNLOAD ñ The Islanders Son was born she and her husband made a deal he’d work and she’d uit her corporate law job to stay home with the boys But a few years ago Lu uietly began working on a private project that has becoming increasingly demanding on her time Torn between her work and home she’s beginning to uestion that deal she madeOver the twelve short weeks of summer these three strangers will meet and grow close will share secrets and bury lies And as the promise of June turns into the chilly nights of August the truth will come out forcing each of them to decide what they value most and what they are willing to give up to keep it After reading an advance copy of Meg Mitchell Moore s new book Two Truths and a Lie which comes out on June 16 2020 I went back and finally read The Islanders albeit a year late Well better late than neverThis enjoyable book is set on Block Island Rhode Island a lovely and peaceful oasis everyone should visit Three people s lives intersect over the course of a summer Disgraced writer Anthony is trying to escape Joy the local bakery owner is a single mother trying to cope with a daughter growing up too fast and Lu the seemingly perfect stay at home wife and mother is secretly building a successful food blog I enjoyed how these three characters came together and offered the support each neededThe Islanders is a perfect beach readRated 375 rounded up

REVIEW ✓ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Ñ Meg Mitchell Moore

READ & DOWNLOAD ñ The Islanders J Courtney Sullivan’s Maine meets the works of Elin Hilderbrand in this delicious summer read involving three strangers one island and a season packed with unexpected romance well meaning lies and damaging secrets Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star The son of an uber famous thriller writer Anthony’s debut novel spent two years on the bestseller list and won the adoration of critics But something went very wrong with his second work Now Anthony’s borrowing an old college’s friend’s crumbling beach house on Block Island in the hopes that solitude will help him get back to the person he used to beJoy So Another great summer story in The Islanders which features year round bakery owner Joy who s struggling to keep her bakery business afloat with new rent demands and competition Lu an exhausted stay at home mom whose doctor husband Jeremy is always at the hospital and mystery man Anthony who made a terrible mistake and came to Block Island to hide out while he determines his next move Over the summer their lives become intertwined in different ways and this is where the story lies The Islanders was a fun captivating story perfect for summer with a vividly described setting I didn t like all of the characters all the time They were flawed yet relatable and by the end I was rooting for each of them An ultimately enjoyable beach read