A more serious book than I expected

The High Tide Club: A Novel

By: Mary Kay Andrews

Rating: 4 of 5

It’s been quite a while since I have last read a Mary Kay Andrews book. I was expecting a more light-hearted romance and instead read a book about female bonding. While it wasn’t what I was expecting and hoping for, it was a good read nonetheless.

This is the story of women in the past as well as women in the future. The women of today are, with the expect of two individuals, all decedents of the women in the original group. The two exceptions are women, in their nineties, who formed one half of the original group.

The original group, the High Tide Club, got their name from their first meeting which was skinny dipping at night during the high tide/full moon. The young women were inseparable, that is, until a terrible event happens.

The young women are called together by the oldest surviving member of the High Tide Club. She wants to leave her island and wealth to these young women to make amends for the past.

The characters are well written and the dialog is good. The point of view alternates between the past and the present and the story of the secret emerges as stories unfold.

I enjoyed the book and would look for future books by this author that are more in the fictional literature genre than the romantic comedies that I have read in the past.

I was provided a digital advance reader copy of this book by the publisher via Netgalley.

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