Librarian (Darcy) who lives on Nantucket doesn't usually mingle with the summer visitors, but this summer is different in many ways ... how will these new friendships impact her life?

Darcy, a librarian living in her deceased grandmother's home on Nantucket, lives a fairly drama free life and is casually dating Nash, a carpenter new to the island. Her quiet life is shaken when her ex-husband, Boyz, and his new family (wife Autumn and step-daughter, Willow) rent the home behind hers. Soon, her life becomes intermingled with theirs as well as the families renting the houses on either side of hers. On one side is elderly, yet bubbly, Mimi and her handsome grandson, Clive, and on the other side is Susan, her husband, Otto, and their three rambunctious sons. As the summer progresses, many secrets are revealed. How will they Darcy, and her new friends, be affected by them? 

I loved reading a story about a librarian and have to admit that I had a teeny-tiny crush on Nash hehe. This would be the perfect book to read while relaxing at the beach!

Thank you to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for a free ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review!

Was thrilled to get an ARC of this through NetGalley in exchange for an "honest" review. Who would read a book and intentionally mislead people one way or another? That is simply nonsense!

Nancy Thayer had me piling on two sweatshirts and sitting outside in my chilly backyard in the weak Connecticut sunshine pining away for summer days. The shining character in this tale, Darcy, is left one of those old weathered summer homes that we all wish (or maybe we actually remember) from growing up with our grandmothers. Luckily for Darcy, hers is right smack in the middle of Nantucket where it seems as if everything is that much sweeter. String some white lights through your trees and bushes, pour an extra glass of wine, eat only cheese and crackers with fruit and you have the makings of a great read. 

Darcy befriends the summer residents, one of which is her ex-husband (complete jerk - we'd like to smack him!) and his family. Darcy has a sexy new boyfriend (Nash - we'd like to gnaw on him!). Darcy has a dream job as a librarian, no wait - sexy librarian! Darcy is fun, feline friendly and it was a pleasure to read about her.

I don't always read romance stories. However, I do fall for beachy, fun, feel good stories. This is it. In spades.

I chose to read this book because the author will be speaking at the library where I work next week. I am very glad that I chose to read it!  The main character, Darcy, is a librarian in Nantucket, which sounds like a lovely place based on the descriptions in the book.  Darcy has inherited her grandmother's home and is living there when surprisingly, her ex-husband and his wife whom he left Darcy for, show up at the rental house next door.  Darcy has a handsome new boyfriend and while she tries to avoid relationships with the summer people, she winds up befriending her ex-husband's step daughter and an elderly woman named Mimi who is renting the house on the other side of Darcy's home. Mimi is staying there with her handsome grandson who is quite interested in Darcy.  The story and characters are very interesting and the book is a fun read!  I highly recommend it.

This was a cute beach read.

It's been 3 years since Darcy has lived on Nantucket all-year round. After the death of her beloved Grandmother, she inherited her house. Once summer rolls around, here come the summer visitors. Surrounding Darcy's house, are three groups of summer visitors. One she did not expect, her ex-husband and new family. But Darcy has gotten to know all of the women and cherishes their time together.

But the real question is, can Darcy and Nash maintain their relationship this summer. New to the island, Nash is reluctant to talk about his past. But can other obstacles keep them apart, or will their relationship survive?

Nancy Thayer is one of my favourite beach read authors.  I received Secrets of the Summer as an advanced copy from Net Gallery in exchange for an honest review.

Darcy, a librarian lives all year around on the island of Nantucket.  There is 16,000 people living there full time and 60,000 in the summer.  Darcy rarely interacts with the summer people except for this summer when three very interesting families move into her neighbourhood. One of them being her ex-husband and the woman who ruined his and Darcy"s marriage who he is now married too and their teenage daughter.

She also has a handsome boyfriend Nash who she doesn't know if he wants a long term commitment.  

This is an excellent beach read and I highly recommend it to others.

Okay- my summer has officially begun! My first Nantucket book is officially complete and I'm ready for the rest of the beach books. This is your basic light summer, romance, family secrets all rolled into one nice happy story and everyone has a happy ending. We all need one of these books every so often....just about once or twice every summer to be exact. Now I' m off to read the latest Elin Hilderbrand book, and I'll be set until next summer!
Thanks to Ballantine books and Netgalley for the advance digital review copy!

Secrets in Summer was a comfortable read. The main character was completely relatable with her job as a librarian and her passion for books. The story lines were closely intertwined and the author deftly illustrated how messy and complicated different relationships are. The only facet that would have made this book absolutely perfect would be reading it on a Nantucket beach.

Returning to Nantucket with Nancy Thayer is a rite of summer. Darcy is enjoying her life as a children's librarian on Nantucket, having returned to her childhood home on the island. Her quiet life is disrupted when her ex-husband and his new family move into the house next door for the summer, and Darcy finds herself pulled into not only their lives, but the lives of several other summer visitors as well. Her new relationships will challenge and change her, but what will be left at the end of summer? 

This was a fun, easy, perfect summer read. As a librarian I enjoyed the scenes of Darcy at work (and props to a writer who seems to really understand what librarians really do!). Darcy was just a generally likeable character, who was both imperfect and sweet, who made mistakes that she owned up to, but was making an effort to be a good friend and neighbor throughout. It was all good fun and I enjoyed her story throughout.

Nancy Thayer is one of those authors that just screams summer to me....so recently on a cruise vacation I had to read my advance copy since I was surrounded by the appropriate environment. Thayer has disappointed me some lately, and I tend to like Elin Hilderbrand's "Nantucket chick lit" better, but I still keep giving Thayer a shot, if only because of the delectable beach lit covers (and sometimes her hometown Kansas City references). 

This one worked better than most of Thayer's other books for me. Why? The heroine was likeable, and the book was more about her learning to stand on her own two feet and distance herself from unhealthy relationships than the romance, which was low-key but much more realistic than some tend to be. The bar may not be that high for a good, relaxing beach read, but this one left me content and not annoyed, which is all I ask.

I received this book "Secrets in Summer" from Netgalley for my honest review. 

I am between a 3 and 4 on the rating. The book is a fun beach read. The title is great because there were a lot of secrets that summer on the island. Darcy is the main character and is involved in everything! The book was good and a light read, perfect for the summer season.

I received this arc from Netgalley for an honest review. This was a decent summer read though I've read better by Thayer. This book felt a little all over the place with several unfinished story lines. I liked how the novel finished for the two main characters, but everything else felt unfinished.

Sometimes the perfect life with the perfect  job in an idyllic setting needs a little stirring up, resulting in a perfect beach read. Thayer explores interpersonal relationships on several levels, allowing Darcy to make difficult decisions about family, love, and moral responsibility.

Nancy Thayer is among few authors whose books I look forward to every summer because they are such perfect summer reads. While Secrets in Summer wasn't my favorite of hers, it was still a great beach read - captivating and effortless.  What I liked about this book was, as always, the setting of Nantucket.  As with Elin Hilderbrand, I cannot get enough of books set on this island. I also loved the flashbacks to Darcy's past and all scenes involving her lovely grandmother.  Finally, this book really centered on the friendship between four women, all of whom met through the location of their summer homes, and I loved that aspect even if how the women met felt a bit staid.  What tripped me up in this book was Darcy and, really, Darcy's relationship with her "boyfriend" Nash. I don't feel like this relationship was well developed or that Darcy should have focused such energy on this relationship. It was very unhealthy to me but was made out to be something important and romantic. There were a lot of issues with gossip and Darcy's internal monologue but I still recommend this one as a great summer/beach read along with Nancy Thayer's entire catalog.

Secrets in Summer comes out next month on May 16, 2017, and you can purchase HERE.  

But it wasn't Bessie's beauty that fascinated Darcy. It was how she listened to Darcy speak, focusing all her attention on her, often remaining silent for a minute or two while she contemplated Darcy's words. 

"Um-hum," Bessie would hum. "Let me think on that." The subject might be as enormous as the Holocaust–How could such a thing happen? Or as trivial as why women needed to possess so many pairs of shoes. 

Often, Bessie would reply, "Child, I don't think that's a question anyone on this earth has the true answer for. The best advice I can give you is to keep reading."

I usually love summer beach reads, especially set in Nantucket. Secrets in Summer was just ok for me. I did love how Nancy Thayer’s writing actually “takes” you to the beautiful island of Nantucket. However, I was disappointed with the overall storyline and characters. Darcy is a year-long resident and the head of the children’s library on the island. To me, this was her one redeeming quality…she loved books! She is in a new relationship with a hunky contractor who doesn’t seem to be as committed to a relationship as Darcy. Darcy also becomes too involved with her “summer” neighbors and their problems to the point, I believe, that she’s jeopardizing her own love life. There was just too much going on in her mind. It made me want to shake her to snap out of it! Overall, a cute and quick read, nothing earth-shattering. I’m sure I’ll read more of Nancy Thayer’s books in the future. 
Thanks to Netgalley for an advanced copy in return for an honest review.

Secrets in Summer is a pretty good book, but it does lack an action-filled, exciting plot.  Darcy lives on Nantucket year-round and is a librarian at the local library.  There is a man, Nash, in her life.  Both Darcy and Nash are at the stage where they are trying to figure out whether there is a future in their relationship and just how that will play out. Darcy also has an ex, from a rather wealthy real estate family, who, with his new wife and her teenage daughter, move into the house behind Darcy’s for the summer.  In addition, and elderly woman and her thirty something grandson move in next door. Finally, there is a family with three young sons who move into the other house whose yard touches Darcy’s.  Each of these has a major role in this story, as we follow them through this summer.  However, each character has or is connected to secrets that both drive and impede their lives this summer. The book follows them through it all, with many twists and turns and events that shape them as well as the story. As I said, there is not a great plot, but a day-by-day story of the lives of each of these neighbors, their interactions and their impact on one another.  Still, the story is well written and makes a great beach read.  The setting in Nantucket definitely speaks of summer. Finally, I found the characters well-developed and real. This book is not all that unlike the others the author has written, that also take place on Nantucket.  The book gives the reader a good picture of the summer on this beautiful, interesting island. As I said, it makes a very good beach read.  It is uncomplicated and easy to follow/read, even if the reader has to, for whatever reason, stop frequently while reading.  I felt the easy-going plot and smooth flow only helped to make the book enjoyable. As I said, it is a great beach/summer read and will definitely put you in the summertime mood. This book will definitely appeal to readers of the author’s other books as well as to anyone looking for a great, easy summer read. If you want a book like that, then this one is for you. I received this from NetGalley to read and review.

Such a heartwarming, sad, humorous, entertaining and enjoyable read. I really got into this book and could not put it down.

Darcy lives in her childhood home which she inherited from her grandmother in Nantucket. She is a year round resident and she has done something she's never done before. She has become close to the summer renters. And, it just so happens, one of those renters is the stepdaughter of her ex-husband who is renting the property behind her. Of all the houses in Nantucket, he has to pick that one. Ha! This leads up to pretty interesting reading and is just one of the plots that is being told in this story.

There are several plots and lots of quirky, endearing characters. You will definitely need tissues for this one as the summer ends. 

Thanks to Random House and Net Galley for approving and allowing me to read and review this book.

Darcy lives in the house she grew up in on Nantucket, completely happy with her life.  Her life is close to ideal, but when summer comes and all of the summer residents move in all over the neighborhood, she realizes that one never has enough friends.  She befriends the mom of 3 boys next door, the elderly lady on the other side of her who reminds her so much of her own grandmother, and a teenager from the house behind hers.  Darcy's summer becomes of whirlwind of fun, secrets that she discovers about all the neighbors (some of which she really DIDN'T need to know!) and of course love.  The characters in the book seem so real you feel as if you were right there experiencing it all first hand.  I highly recommend this book!

Not anything in particular wrong with it but really not up to the authors usual standard in my opinion. For one the unusual characters names seemed out of place and odd. Usually there is also way more character development and depth to the plot. What I did like was the passion of the main character for her library job and quite a lot of description about the wonder of libraries which is always to be encouraged. I did also enjoy the kindness of the characters and good moral messages. I always enjoy a book set in Nantucket over summer and perhaps it just that, a good book to read at the beach!

I truly enjoyed reading this book.  Although I felt the plot could have been more complex it was an easy read and was very enjoyable.

I got the chance to read this early from Netgalley and I'm thrilled that I was selected.
I have my favorite beach book authors and Nancy Thayer is one of the best.

I don't give 5 stars easily but this is everything you could ask for in a beach book.

Darcy is pretty happy with her life. She lives in Nantucket year round, she has her dream job as a librarian, she has the perfect house left to her by her grandmother, there's a sweet and handsome almost boyfriend and a lovable cat named Muffler.

All in all, life is sweet and it hasn't always been that way. There was a time in Darcy's life when her parents gave her up to her grandmother. It led to a very content time in her life though. She met a man named Boyz and married, then things fell apart when he left her for another woman.

This led Darcy back to her grandmother's side and when she lost her grandmother she was alone again. But leaving Darcy her home, she felt at peace in the world again.

Darcy never paid too much attention to the vacationers that rent homes around her, but this year is different. To her shock, her ex-husband rents the house next door with his new wife and step daughter.
Another, frantic, vacationer shows up on her doorstep asking to borrow a cup of milk.
And she instantly bonds with sweet elderly Mimi that reminds her if her own grandmother.

As the summer passes, Darcy finds herself drawn into her temporary neighbors' lives. She forms very unexpected connections and she starts to wonder whether she might have met the real love of her life.

Very upbeat, filled with strong, likable characters, including a very lovable cat. I loved how Darcy was content with her life before the summer even started. This isn't a book about a woman devastated over her divorce, she's also not sad to be single. But letting herself form strong relationships with new people was also empowering for her.

Loved this book. I tried to put it down and save it a bit longer, but I couldn't.