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I felt like I was sitting back in this community of morally compromised people watching the train wrecks happen. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A fun summer read, if you like rich people behaving badly! I got some White Lotus vibes for sure. Everyone was horrible, but you know that going in since it‘s in the title. 😂
I was hooked from the very beginning!

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Ok, so, I realize there are similarities btw this and the last booked I just bailed on. HOWEVER, this book does not pretend to have decent people, it's right there in the title! Also, I still liked some of them and the plot was more intriguing from the get go & held some surprises along the wat. There are quite a few characters so on audio, at times, it was a little confusing (but maybe it's more due to juggling a toddler... Lol).

Ok, so definitely some white lotus vibes. Horrible people, you know someone is going to die. You don‘t know who you till 3/4s in. I hated every one but enjoyed the ride.

I found the first half of this book relatively compelling in an easy reading way, but in the end it just DRAGGED for me. There‘s SO MUCH set up, that dwells on the minutiae of the characters‘ lives and interactions, and then once the main event takes place it takes an absolute age to unpick it too. I love a rich people drama story usually but this one failed to capture me and I think pacing issues were the reason for this.

I was looking forward to some ridiculous rich people behaving badly drama, but lots of parts were just boring.

I hadn‘t heard of BAD SUMMER PEOPLE until it turned up in my library‘s Express section, but I love a book about rich people behaving badly so I jumped on it. I got through the first 50% while I did various hands-on-brain-off stuff earlier, and I feel good about all my choices. It‘s like east coast Jackie Collins on vacation.

One of the things I did while I listened was block this baby shawl. I‘m happy with that result, too. #audiocrafting

Great

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.

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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.

Book 82/100 of the year.

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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