I love multigenerational books, something about spanning generations just draws me in, add in this author, and you have a home run!

This was a very enjoyable and easy read! It felt light and relatable and I loved that it spanned 3 generations of women! I loved getting to know grandma Cora, how she came to the island and the life she lived there! Daughter Hedy, was my least favorite, she just seemed entitled and whiney about all things. Hedy’s daughter, Michelle, was a breath of fresh air, she was flawed but had such an energy about her and I loved her humility!
I would read more from this author, I really enjoyed her style of writing!

Thank you NetGalley, Erika Montgomery and St. Martin's Press for the ARC of Our Place on the Island. This is my personal review.
I adore a book with family, mystery secrets and love with the perfect setting that takes me into the setting and story that I lose track of time as I was reading.
The author made the characters feel so real and the emotions from them was excellent. The wedding of Cora melts it all together.
This is a book that you will be glad you read! I know I enjoyed it very much.

I loved A Summer to Remember. Was so happy to see this stunning book sitting on my shelf.

OPOTI was my most anticipated read and she sure didn’t disappoint.

Our Place on the Island by Erika Montgomery is a beautifully crafted tale of family, love, drama and a second chance romance.
Erika Montgomery creates such depth, real emotions, engaging writing, and flawed characters with whom to fall in love and a story I’ll never forget.
There is so much to love about this beautifully written novel.
She can turn family drama, and romance into a bittersweet story.
I found this to be a perfect summer read and could feel the seaside air that Montgomery describes so beautifully.

"I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own."

Thank You NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

Beautiful women's fiction about three generations of women and their connections to not only each other, but also to their beloved Martha's Vineyard home, Beech House. Cora, the matriarch, is getting married to Max, a man she's known since she first came to Martha's Vineyard as a newlywed 40 years ago. Her daughter, Hedy, is conflicted about her late father being replaced by Max. And, Mickey, the granddaughter, is having issues of her own. The restaurant she and her boyfriend own is highly sought after, but Mickey has mismanaged the books and they're in debt. Suppliers are skipping deliveries. Can she save the restaurant and her relationship?

I loved how this all played out. The only thing I thought was missing, was the story of how Max and Cora reconnected after Cora was widowed. Nonetheless, this book is a solid 5 stars for me!

Thank you so much to St. Martin's Press for the opportunity to read a digital ARC in return for an honest review.

I really enjoyed the dual timelines and the light romance of this book! Would recommend to anyone looking for a great summer read.

Our Place on the Island by Erika Montgomery is a novel told with a dual timeline, which has become very popular lately. It's the story of 3 generations of women who have returned to the family beach house carrying heavy emotional loads which will affect each other's lives. It is beautifully written and a pleasure to read. Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for an ARC of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

My Thoughts
Opening setup starts in 1999 Baltimore and changes between it and 1948 Martha’s Vineyard where the Beech House, named for the massive weeping beech tree that stood sentry in the front, which had been in the Campbell family since 1902 and is located overlooking Vineyard Sound.

Our storylines follow along with each other introducing our key characters as it goes.

Starting with granddaughter Mickey Campbell whose career path as a chef started in the care of her grandmother Cora when she was very young.

Now partner and manager of her own restaurant, Piquant in Baltimore, she finds herself struggling with an uncertain future.

Having received a wedding invitation from her grandmother Mickey returns to attend after not having visited since grandfather Harry died 3 years prior.

As we bounce from present to past and past to present there is a heaping helping of good food prepared, romances rekindled, new ones in the wings and plenty of family secrets and gossip revealed.

We learn the truth right along with the characters themselves as we read.

These truths were presented at times charmingly and others presented quite bluntly, as they were in previous book read by the author.

Quite the page turner with a few bumps along the way for its core characters, both in the past and also in the present.

The end result of which brings us full circle in a very satisfying way.

[EArc from Netgalley]

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Our Place on the Island
by Erika Montgomery
Pub Date: June 13, 2023
St, Martin's Press
Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
I really enjoyed this book and will certainly look this author up. This was a good story and beach setting which will be popular for the summer months.
Fans of Elin Hildebrand will enjoy this family beach romance.
4 stars

Lovely read that transported me to warmer and sunnier times. The Campbell women gather at the family’s beach house to celebrate the marriage of Cora, their matriarch. The story moves between 1948, when Cora is newly married and newly transplanted to the island; and 1999, when Cora, her daughter, and granddaughter prepare for life changes. Along the way, secrets are exposed that challenge the strength of their relationships. This will be a great beach read.

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC is exchange for my honest feedback.

There were things that I enjoyed about Our Place on the Island, and things that I didn't so much. Naturally, it will surprise no one that the setting for the book was enjoyable. There may be some people out there that don't like books set on an island with the beach steps away from the back door, but I'm not one of them. I enjoyed the fact that the story was more about family and relationships than focused purely on romance. That being said, I wasn't fond of the way the stories of the three women played out. The story that takes place in 1948 from Cora's perspective where she's spending her first summer on the island feels like a lot of misdirection to the story that takes places in 1999. In the latter storyline the reader knows that she's been married to her husband for many years and is just now marrying the man that remodeled her kitchen in the early storyline. But so much of the early storyline seems to pit Max as a more appealing alternative to her husband Harry - who, though not out of line with the times, is kind of oblivious and kind of a jerk to Cora. The later storyline is mostly told from Mickey's (aka Michelle) perspective, where the wedding comes as a surprise in the midst of her tanking the finances of her restaurant and not telling her head chef boyfriend Wes about it. But it's also partly told from her mother Hedy's perspective - feeling left out of the relationship between her mother and her daughter, as well as feeling somewhat put out about her mother's wedding. But her POV doesn't show up often enough to not feel out of place in the midst of Mickey's. And we never see a past timeline of Hedy's that leads her to all of the conflicting emotions that she's dealing with - and it feels like we need to. I wish the early storyline had focused more on Cora's adjustment and teased less of a relationship with Max. I wish there'd been a third timeline that showed Hedy's relationship with her father and lack of one with her mother, and I wish the later storyline had told of changing times on the island from all three women's perspectives. Parts of the story are enjoyable on their own, but they just don't mesh together well into a single book for me. A complimentary copy of this book was provided by the publisher. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Enjoyable! Erika Montgomery’s Our Place on the Island would make for a delightful easy beach read. The story is entertaining, and the many descriptions of luscious food throughout left me both hungry and contemplating what creative cuisine I might next cook or bake. And I loved the haven that was Cora’s Kitchen. That said, the plot falls a bit flat toward the end and I think the tale would have benefitted from better character development as well as establishing a stronger sense of place outside of Cora’s Kitchen. The descriptions of Martha’s Vineyard were surprisingly somewhat generic, in that they could for the most part have pertained to almost any New England beach community. Yet in both timelines featured in the book, the author could have richly enhanced the setting by highlighting the fascinating history and beauty of relatively rural West Tisbury and the other “up island” Vineyard communities - such as the gorgeous farmland and forests, beautiful stone fences, historical general store and church, and the cliffs at Aquinnah. I was disappointed by the absence of such details. Two and a half stars, rounded up.

Many thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s, Griffin, for the complimentary ARC. Opinions are my own.

This book is great! Would definitely recommend. Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

A good story and even better beach setting which will be popular for the summer months and vacation reads. I just didn't love the entire thing. I was bored through some parts. I do appreciate NetGalley providing me with the ARC though for the purpose of this review. Three stars.

I received this novel from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The setting makes it a perfect beach which will please readers of the authors previous debut. Mystery, love, family all in an amazing setting.

Our Place on the Island is a story about 3 generations of women coming together for what could be the last time at Beech House on Martha’s Vineyard. Cora, the matriarch of the family, is getting remarried to the cabinet maker of her dream kitchen. Hedy, is pissed her mother is getting remarried so soon after her father’s death. And Mickey is running away from restaurant woes.

The plot alternates between present day and Cora’s first summer on the island when she was getting (painfully) initiated into the elite of Martha’s Vineyard. I thoroughly enjoyed the Cora chapters and felt the most connected to her throughout the book.

There were some exciting elements to the story which kept your reading to see what happened, but there was no big reveal or plot twist. The elements just fizzled out at the end and everything wrapped up with a cute little bow.

I had a difficult time getting into the author’s ode to food in this book. It just didn’t hit and felt amateurish. But I can say I would love to be the owner of Cora’s kitchen island!

Thank you to Net Galley and St Martin’s press for giving me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I liked the fist book much better. While that one was about movies this one was about food. which was one of the only bright spots. I felt that Mickey had the most relatable storyline, but the other aspects of the story simply weren't all that engaging nor were the other characters. I think this author may not be my cup of tea.

The real star of this book was the food! Didn’t help that I was hungry while reading it. I had an intense desire to eat chowder and clams.
This was a simple tale of three generations of female family members, whose connection to the summer house and island was integral to who they were as people. There was conflict, realistic marriages and the tension of performing the right moves in social situations to make others happy.
The dual timeline was interesting, 1948 affluent summers sound very similar to more modern day ones. Endless rounds of tennis, lunches, beach’s, parties and cocktails. Storylines were never padded out enough or expanded on which made it hard to feel any care for the characters. There was more love and attention given to the food and the kitchen island! It was a pleasant, easy read.
Thank you Netgalley for the ARC.

A dual time line story about mothers and daughters. The story is easy to read and follow, but the characters fell a little flat and did not have much time to develop. I enjoyed the historical time line more than the present day.

This was my first Erika Montgomery book and it certainly won’t be the last. Such a great, comfort read. It reminded me of my favorite beach read author, Elin Hilderbrand.

I was given the opportunity to read this advanced copy by NetGalley in exchange for my honest feedback, all opinions are my own.