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The Beach House
Jun. 11th, 2025 08:03 pmThe Beach House by Jane Green is an odd combination of brilliantly realistic and ridiculously over-the-top. It's about multiple people whose lives become very complicated for various reasons, and who all end up being connected by a dilapidated house on Nantucket.
I struggled a little bit with the first half, because everyone was making stupid decisions and often being dislikable - in a very realistic way, but that didn't stop it being annoying. I was also irritated because the events mentioned at the start of the blurb on the back of the book didn't happen until over halfway through.
But it really picked up in the second half, everything in the first half became significant, and all the loose ends got tied up in satisfying (and sometimes surprising) ways in the end. It had a great found family vibe and, despite the growing melodrama towards the end - or perhaps partly because of it - I had a really good time with this book overall.
I struggled a little bit with the first half, because everyone was making stupid decisions and often being dislikable - in a very realistic way, but that didn't stop it being annoying. I was also irritated because the events mentioned at the start of the blurb on the back of the book didn't happen until over halfway through.
But it really picked up in the second half, everything in the first half became significant, and all the loose ends got tied up in satisfying (and sometimes surprising) ways in the end. It had a great found family vibe and, despite the growing melodrama towards the end - or perhaps partly because of it - I had a really good time with this book overall.
