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A murder mystery set at an exclusive summer beach town in Fire Island. This was a fun beach read!
Somehow the town of Salcombe is both toxic and cozy. Coming to life for the summer the small community of frenemies are backstabbing each other one moment and enjoying wholesome summer fun the next. I have huge admiration for how Rosenblum yoked those two opposing forces together to create characters we love to hate. There are mystery elements but really it is a social satire eviscerating rich New Yorkers, perfect summer read.
Incredible audiobook narrator that allows the listener to differentiate between the many characters easily thanks to her voice acting. In the vein of Big Little Lies, we have rich characters doing awful things, but you can‘t stop watching and wanting to know what happens.
Yep, the people in this book are definitely bad. This is set on Fire Island, where rich people summer to backstab each other, attend parties, and complain about #metoo and the BLM movement. Though I can‘t say I enjoyed the book, it did feel like the characters were very real…just horrible! Cheating, lying, stealing, conniving! Ugh. The book opens with a young boy finding a dead body. The rest of the book sets up what happened. Meh.
This was a quick read in that Rich People Up To No Good genre that populates the bookstores every summer. Told in from multiple viewpoints you get a little bit of what makes each character tick. I think there are other books out there that have done this genre far better but if you are looking for something fast and unchallenging for a beach day, this would fit the bill.
I really liked this as a guilty pleasure read. It was fun and packed full of drama! My favorite type of summer read!I see some really negative reviews, but I loved it. I was glued to the book from start to finish, so for me it was a huge success! Solid 🔆🔆🔆🔆
This was spoiled rich people doing what spoiled rich people do: making their lives look perfect for everyone else while actually backstabbing/cheating/lying/every bad habit possible behind the scenes. None of them seemed to feel bad about their actions and just looked to get away with some really nasty things. There‘s a death at the very beginning that the reader is trying to figure out the identity of and I didn‘t really care by the end. 🌟🌟🌟
I think it‘s fun to start June with a book of characters summering on a swanky Atlantic coast island. The title warns the reader there may not be a likable character in the lot, and it‘s an apt title. I was up for that so it‘s a so-do I had fun with. This gives me strong Elin Hilderbrand vibes if she were to venture over to Fire Island for a summer.
This aptly titled neighborhood drama is set in Solcombe on Fire Island- a summer community focused on the tennis club, gossip, fillers and more than a dash of illicit relationships. This isn‘t the summer community that I think many would want to be a part of- between the cattiness and selfish and destructive behaviors, these are bad summer people indeed. Unlikable characters plus a lot of detail on tennis makes this a bit of a slog at times…
This beach read candidate is more melodrama than mystery/thriller. Read my full review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#bad-summer-people
Publication is expected May 23.
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A fun, trashy book about a summer in a Fore Island, NY town. Gossip, cheating, secrets and a death. Great, quick beach read due out in May. Thoroughly enjoyed this.
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