Heat Wave by Nancy Thayer. What can I say about this book? It was probably one of the most just mid books I’ve ever read. Wasn’t bad, wasn’t good. It was kind of just there. This book follows our main character, Carly. Her husband has just passed. She is devastated. She has two children with him, and she is just trying to figure out how to move on in life without him. After his death, she comes to find out that he made some very bad investments and has left her with basically no money. He was always very well off, so Carly hasn’t worked in years, and she really just doesn’t know what she wants to do. In his will, he has left her the Nantucket house that they shared together. And she decides, in order to make some money, that she is going to turn this house into a bed and breakfast. And basically this book just follows her story as she opens this B&B. She is starting to consider finding love after her husband, which is a very conflicting concept in her head. how can she find love when she’s still upset about her husband passing? It also has some friendship drama, which took a very unexpected and dramatic turn towards the. And I will say, someone recommended this book to me because I love Ellen Hildebrand. You guys probably know that by now. And they said that Nancy Thayer’s books are very similar to Ellen Hildebrand’s Ellen Hildebrand is even quoted on the front of this book. So I was really, really hoping that this was gonna give me some major Ellen Hildebrand vibes, but this one was just really not up there with Ellen’s books, in my opinion. I don’t know that anyone could really get to her level in my head. I ended up giving it 2.75 stars. I thought it was fine. It was just very basic. I didn’t love all of the decisions the main character made, but everyone copes and moves on at their own pace, so I guess I really can’t judge that. The little side drama with her two other friends was what really entertained me throughout this book. It wasn’t the main plot point of the story, but it definitely was there, and I enjoyed it. Except for at the end, the drama with the friends took a turn that I just did not see coming at all. It, like, started happening, and I was like, wait, wait, wait. This is not going where I think it’s about to go. And it went there, and it really caught me off guard, and I don’t know if I liked that or not. The main thing I struggled with throughout this book is that these characters are all supposed to be. And they’re early to mid 30s. And I don’t know anything about Nancy Thayer, but I’d have to guess she’s a little bit older because all of these Early 30s, mid 30s. Character first were written like they were 50 year old men and women. Like, I’m 30 and these people felt so much older than me, and that’s just, you know, not for me. I just really want to read a book about young people, young being my age, and I want them to be modern and relatable, and these characters just weren’t. I’m not gonna be running around or recommending this to everyone, but I always give authors more than one chance. I don’t judge them based off of one single book. So I’m sure I’ll read more of hers in the future. But for the time being, if you have any authors that you think are comparable to Ellen Hildebrand, leave them in the comments because I’m still searching. And if you have read this one, let me know what you thought.