The Five-Star weekend is another hit from Elin Hilderbrand!

When Hollis shaw’s husband dies unexpectedly, she decides to host a five star weekend at her Nantucket home. She invites one important person from different time period on her life. Her last “friend” added is a follower from her blog that has a connection to Hollis that no one knows about prior to the weekend.

These ladies have an amazing weekend that strengthens their original friendships with Hollis. Each lady is struggling with something secretly on their own. As the weekend unfolds, each of the “stars” is able to come to terms with their struggles and are ready to move forward.

Elin Hilderbrand doesn’t disappoint! It wouldn’t be summer without reading one of her books. Make sure this is in your beach bag. It’s all about friendship, family and forgiveness

This is such an engaging look at friendship, growing up, and connecting phases of your life. Hollis builds a career as a home chef with an effortlessly chic lifestyle. Then her husband dies unexpectedly and she brings together friends from her various phases of life for a "five-star weekend" on her home island of Nantucket. I really enjoyed seeing how each woman related to Hollis and the secrets they brought to the island with them. The biggest secret was connected to Gigi, the woman Hollis met in her online community and invited on a whim. Hers ended up being the least interesting story to me because of the lack of history involved but it still held my attention. I love reading about female connections and the moving through the various stages of life so this book was a perfect fit for me. I read it by the pool and loved each page. Thanks to Elin Hilderbrand, Little, Brown and Company, and NetGalley for an ARC of the book in exchange for my honest review.

Its not hyperbole to say that Elin Hilderbrand’s books mean it’s officially summertime.

Once again I was magically transported to Nantucket and all of its indulgent summer pleasures. Elin has somehow perfectly combined both romance and women’s fiction in this captivating beach read.

Hollis is a wildly popular food blogger whose picture-perfect life is in reality, nothing but. She recently lost her husband in a tragic accident and her daughter can barely tolerate her.

Hollis decides to invite friends from every stage of her life - childhood, college and marriage - to spend a “Five-Star Weekend” with her at her fabulous house in Nantucket. Each activity and meal has been carefully curated by Hollis. The only wildcard is her online friend Gigi, a follower of the blog but whom Hollis has never actually met in real life. Hollis even hires her daughter Caroline to document the entire weekend for the blog.

What follows is a thoroughly engaging and unpredictable story that packed a punch. The Nantucket setting is dreamy and Elin nailed all of the female friendships, loyalties and old rivalries. If Elin is still planning to retire in 2024, I hope it’s after the summer! 😩 Because I, for one, can’t get enough of her summer reads!

(𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦, 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘕𝘦𝘵𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯.)

This book was so amazing! It pulled you in from start to finish. I have never been to Nantucket, but this book made me not only want to go, but feel like I had just been. Hollis has lost her husband and it wanting a distraction and sees where someone has a Five-Star Weened and she takes the idea and invites for a girl's weekend five friends from different stages of her life. This makes for a fascinating read! I hated for it to end.

Always such a good summer vibe from Elin . Honestly such a good book and I love that there's always conflict but it’s not over the top. Normally more than one POV isn’t for me but Elin does it so well. Great summer book.

Elin Hilderbrand is one of my favorite authors and this summer, I've decided to read the books of hers I haven't read. (It wasn't surprising that I hadn't read this one; it's the most recent release). This book is, like most of hers, an excellent summer read. It's incredibly fun, dramatic and just a complete joy.

Highly recommended.

This book was Elin Hilderbrand and her original recipe. I was so excited when I finished because it felt like it was back to the books she used to write. It is the perfect beach read and I loved every second of this book.

It's not summer until I've read the newest story from Hilderbrand. She is extremely dependable and you know each time you start a book that you're going to get a great summer story set in Nantucket. She continues to get better with each book; just loved this one!

I love Elin Hilderbrand's books so I was so excited to recieve this one. Especially since its one of her last. I gave this one 3.5 but rounded up to 4 on GR. This wasn’t one of my favorite EH novels, I found some of the Gen Z talk a little bit cringy and used in the wrong context and I also really didn’t like the MC’s daughter Caroline. I did like the idea of the book, and I thought it would be really cool to have a Five Star Weekend with five friends. Although I have no idea who I would invite. I always enjoy a good beach read and this was just that. It was exactly what was needed to sit by the pool or on the beach and read.

The Five-Star Weekend is a five star summer read! Great characters, multiple points of view and of course the chance to catch up with the happenings on Nantucket. In an effort to deal with her grief after the death of her husband, Hollis invites friends from various periods of her life, to gather on Nantucket. Lots of drama! One of the things I appreciate about Elin Hilderbrand’s writing is how she includes us as part of the narrative.

Food Blogger, Hollis Shaw has unexpectedly lost her husband and decides to host a Five Star Weekend with her 4 closest friends from different times in her life. She invites her best friend from high school, her best friend from college, her closest friend from after college and a new friend she had met through her website. The weekend is full of delicious food, fun events and as you can imagine, drama. Just because these friends love Hollis doesn’t mean they like each other and each of them have some really big things going on in their own lives. With Nantucket as the back drop for the story and a few reappearances of character’s from Elin’s previous books, I’d give this book a 5 star review. Elin continues to outdo herself with each new novel. With only one Nantucket book left, I’m going to miss these yearly releases terribly.

I received this from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I am a faithful Elin fan and I look forward to her books each year. I thought this story was very unique in that it really didn’t have much romance as her books typically do. This story centered around 5 friends who come together for a weekend of summer fun after one of their husbands passes away. This is a perfect read if you love books set in beach towns with people doing beach type activities. One thing I love about Elin’s books each year is that they take you on your annual summer journey to Nantucket to visit with some new friends and some old ones. I really enjoyed this and of course will look forward to the next trip back to Nantucket next June.

Hollis Shaw's life is turned upside down when her husband is killed in a car accident. She had felt something was off between them beforehand. Hollis had become a huge social media influencer with her Hungry with Hollis blog and a lot of her life is revolved around that. Her daughter is incredibly angry after her dad's death and takes it out on Hollis. (Which is one part of the story that really bothered me. There was just so much anger and Hollis tries so hard.)

Hollis is heading to their summer home in Nantucket (where Hollis grew up) and she decides to throw a five star weekend with a best friend from each season of her life, from childhood till now. They are a diverse group of women who all have their own secrets going on in their lives. Her friend from now, Gigi Ling, she hasn't even met in real life yet but boy, does she have the biggest secret of them all.

I loved how each woman found themselves in the company of women. Elin is always so great at writing real women characters, especially women of a certain age. The only thing that missed for me was the angry daughter but she comes around eventually.

A great summer beach read.

Thanks to Netgalley and Little, Brown and Company for a copy for review.

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Five stars for The Five Star Weekend!! Maybe many readers begin their review with this predictable phrase, but I don’t care! That won't stop me, because this book deserves it!

Hilderbrand skillfully delivers a story that, although has a clear main character in Hollis Shaw, navigates multiple points of view. Within the first chapter for each of these POVs, it was easy to immediately become invested in every character. I enjoyed every chapter of this wonderfully paced and fun read. It was nuanced without being heavy, and definitely a great story to pick up if you’re looking for a good read during your summer vacation!

Thank you NetGalley, Elin Hilderbrand, and Little, Brown and Company for this free e-book in exchange for an honest review.


For 2023, I’ll be using this rating scale:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I mourned the ending of this journey 🥹
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ really enjoyed and would recommend
⭐️⭐️⭐️ it was fine
⭐️⭐️ I didn’t enjoy this journey
⭐️ I dnf’d or wish I dnf’d
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ this is smutty smutty erotica 🥵
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ medium burn
🌶️🌶️🌶️ slow burn
🌶️🌶️ romantic b plot / closed door / YA romance
🌶️ no romance / nonfiction

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC of this book. I have read a lot of Elin Hildebrand books and this is in the top 3 favs! It had a unique premise with choosing 5 friends from times in your life to bring on holiday, and a secret that only one of the friends knows. It made me think who would be my 5 friends I would take, and gives off beach feels.

Hollis has a perfect life. She left Nantucket to attend college and never returned to the small house she grew up in, raised by her father after her mother died when she was very young. Hollis's husband Matthew is a successful heart surgeon and he build a dream home on the Nantucket property Hollis inherited, making the small cottage a guest house. Matthew is killed in an accident after acknowledging to Hollis that all is not well in their marriage. Hollis, a cooking, housekeeping internet phenomenon, is sent reeling. After seven months and a strained relationship, she invites four women to share her Nantucket home for what she calls a five-star weekend. Each is from a different phase of her own life. One from her childhood, another from her years in college, still another from her marriage years, and finally a stranger from her successful blog. Hollis and Matthew's daughter Caroline, is just finishing her college internship and Hollis hires her to document the weekend. It is full of drama, healing, and incite. You will love "The Flive-Star Weekend". Erin Hilderbrand is a master at taking us away from everything to a summer of life on Nantucket. This book is one of my favorites of the many she has written. Thanks to #NetGalley#TheFiveStarWeekend for the opportunity to read and review this book.

I used to love Elin Hilderbrand. But lately she is hit or miss. I loved Hotel Nantucket last year, and 28 Summers was amazing. But the rest of the stories she has written recently are misses for me. There is just so much unnecessary drama that she adds in that takes the believability out of the story for me. I'm hoping her next one is back on track for me, but this was a major miss.

Another Elin book set on her beloved Nantucket. This time she features an Instagram famous woman who is recently widowed. She decided to invite friends from all of her phases of life to her home from a weekend and secrets are exposed. the book rotates perspectives including all the woman and Hollis’ daughter who she has a very strained relationship with. I was drawn into this book right off the bat with the descriptions of Hollis and how she rose to social fame. The twists were intriguing as well. This really is a light beachy read that doesn’t get to too deep.

5 stars for The Five-Star Weekend! I can’t pick one thing I didn’t like about this book, it was truly perfection in my eyes. Told from many different point of views, that it gave such a well rounded storyline that was just everything. Love love love!!!