Jencey's Writer's Corner

This year I have had the chance to read the debut by Jennifer Weiner and now here is the debut by Elin Hilderbrand.   Her first novel was the Beach Club.   So I invite you to pull up a deck chair and sit back and close your eyes.   Let your mind transport you to Nantucket. Synopsis: It is time for another summer season at the beach club.  Bill and Therese have owned and operated this hotel and beach club all their lives.  It has been passed down in the family from parent to child.  They have one child Cecily.  But does she really want the club?  Is she ready for her legacy?  Mac has been with the beach club for many years.  Bill and Teresa consider him an adopted son.  He also owns a farm in Iowa.  Does a future in Nantucket exist?  Or should he sell the farm?  There are also other members of the staff and their loved ones.  What will this summer mean to them? My Thoughts: I enjoyed this debut ...

Thank you to Tandem Literary and Little Brown for sending me a copy of   YOU WILL KNOW ME   by Megan Abbott.  I was given this copy in exchange for an honest review. As I write this review  the Olympics have just ended.   Women’s Gymnastics is one of the sports I look forward to seeing in the Olympics.  How about you?  So if you are more interested in reading  a novel that features a sport in the Olympics.  Then you will want to check out Megan Abbott’s latest novel   You Will Know Me . Synopsis:  Katie and Eric started a family.  Their first child is Devon.  One day when running to her father an accident occurs with a lawn mower.  She loses two toes in the accident.  The doctor suggests gymnastics or other activities to help Devon adjust to her injury.  She excels at gymnastics and her family seeks out a coach to train her.  The gym becomes a major part of their liv...

Hayley Oakes is visiting Writer's Corner today to share her hot new novel Closing the Deal . Synopsis:  Charlotte Blake. Cut throat business woman and a powerhouse professional. Her interpersonal skills could use some work but her career comes first. Everything she has, she has worked for. Luke ‘Dex’ Dexter. Her adversary at work with the face of an angel and the charm of the devil. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he’s everything that Charlotte resents. Everything he has, has been handed to him. He’s a self-entitled arrogant playboy. She’s an uptight work-focused bore. Two opposing colleagues forced together in small-town America through decisions beyond their control. Charlotte and Dex must find a way to make it work and close the deal a thousand miles from home. Charlotte can’t remember how it feels to be young and carefree and Dex doesn’t know what it means to be an adult. When the sworn enemies unwitting...

Another highlighted novel from this summer is Emily Giffin’s First Comes Love.   She is famous for getting to the heart of the matter, in her writing.  Will it be beach worthy? Synopsis: Daniel leaves to go get a burger during the Christmas holiday, and never comes back.  He dies in a car accident.  Daniel’s family buries him but is forever changed.  Their parents’ have divorced.  Meredith the younger sister marries her brother’s best friend.  Is it a happy marriage?  Or is she left yearning for more?  Then her older sister Josie has just wanted to meet the perfect guy and form a family.  She is 38 years old and the biological clock is ticking.  She is still single.  So Josie decides to go ahead and have her child without getting married. Josie teaches first grade at a private school in Buckhead. She faces the opportunity to teach her exboyfriend’s daughter in her class.  Can she let go and move forward? Will the ...

The sunlight spilled into the bedroom through the faded gold curtains and onto the pillow, illuminating Corinne’s wavy blonde hair. The young woman lay nestled in her queen-size bed, entangled in a white duvet fit for a king, still wearing her clothes from the evening before. Most mornings, she’d have been up and out on a nearby running trail for half an hour by now, and she would be showered, dolled up, and ready for the day before the sun had even made its way over the North Carolina coast. Most mornings, she’d be composed and cheery as she greeted the locals at her favorite coffeehouse just two blocks away from where she lived. And she certainly would not be hungover as hell. But today was proving to be unlike most mornings. She turned on her side, and before she could use her forearm as a shield, a beam of sunlight stabbed her directly in the eyes. Slowly, she began to reopen them and noticed the room was a little blurry. So was her mind.       ...

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Thank you to Melissa Amster and the ladies at Chick Lit Central for a copy of Gucci Gucci Coo by Sue Margolis.  I am so thankful when opportunities such as this happen.  I get to share this fabulous book.  Sue Margolis is not an author that I have read before.  My readers are in for a great treat! Synopsis: Ruby runs a shop in the suburbs of London that sells fashionable babywear.  She runs the shop with Chanel but her cousin Stella owns part of the shop as well.  Ruby has to go for annual appointment at St. Luke’s hospital with her gynecologist.  After the appointment she meets this American doctor.   They seem to run into each other often.  Ruby finally agrees to go out with him.  She and the doctor find they have much in common. Jill works at St. Luke's Hospital in the maternity section. She  asks Ruby to speak St. Luke’s Hospital.  Her topic is about the needs of the baby after it has birthed.  Once Rub...