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Loading... The High Tide Club: A Novel (original 2018; edition 2018)by Mary Kay Andrews (Author)
Work InformationThe High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews (2018)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |  great cozy story, fast-paced, enjoyable. (  ) cfulton20 | Nov 13, 2023 | dgmathis | Mar 15, 2023 | That's what this book appears to be. Something Andrews - an author whose books I've always enjoyed - phone in. Huge continuity errors, like an off-stage character that dies in WWII, first over Iwo Jima, then over Germany. A fragmented sentence ended with a period that is truly a fragment - just cut off half way through; I can't even guess what it was supposed to have conveyed. Monster gaps in the timeline, and I don't just mean time passes, but time passes where plot-important stuff happens and it's just ... gone. Like maybe it used to be there and someone went all highlight-and-delete happy without turning Track Changes on. The first half of the book is like a time warp, without the narrative overlay. There's supposedly a romance in here too, one that gets exactly two scenes. Normally this would be fine; this story isn't about the MC's romantic life. Except the story starts with Brooke being a single mom because she didn't tell the boy's father she got pregnant the night before he left for a 3 year research trip to Alaska, then continued not telling him. During the course of this story he comes back, hoping to start back up, having no idea he's a father. Even after he meets the boy. All of this ... baggage; seems like it would call for more than 2 scenes. The most unfortunate part of this is that The High Tide Club is, at its core, a really great story about extraordinarily strong women, friendships that span a century, and a ripping good murder mystery. It's genuinely lovely; with a lot of heart and, at the same time, a delightfully brilliant mystery. The American South setting is something Andrews excels at, even, apparently, when she's phoning it in, and the characters are all fully realised. If St. Martin's and Andrews hadn't been so short-sighted as to publish the raw manuscript, instead of a finished, edited work, this might have been one of her best. As it is, I think I'll just re-read Hissy Fit. ( ) murderbydeath | Jan 22, 2022 | 2** Ninety-nine-year-old Josephine Bettendorf Warrick specifically asks for attorney Brooke Trappnell to draft a new will. But when Brooke goes to Josephine’s private island, she’s in for a few surprises. Josephine wants to make amends AND wants to ensure her estate and island is kept out of the hands of the state of Georgia (who wants the land for a state park). S*L*O*W*L*Y Josephine tells Brooke the story of four friends in 1941. I’ve read other books by Mary Kay Andrews and I usually find them entertaining – a nice relaxing read. But I didn’t think the author had a good handle on this plot. It seemed to go in too many directions (not helped by the dual timelines). Too much effort (IMHO) to include a mystery (or three). Brooke drove me absolutely crazy. I wouldn’t hire this woman to draft an email to a friend, let alone to settle a complicated estate. She completely lacks in any self-confidence and her personal life is a complete mess. I’m not even sure she has a good grasp on legal ethics. Well, it satisfied several challenges and it was a fast read/listen. Kathleen McInerney does a fine job narrating the audio book; she earned an extra star for the rating. Too bad she didn’t have better material to work with. (  ) BookConcierge | Jun 21, 2021 | no reviews | add a review
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