Review of Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland

Title: Nantucket Blue

Author: Leila Howland

Description:  For Cricket Thompson, a summer like this one will change everything. A summer spent on Nantucket with her best friend, Jules Clayton, and the indomitable Clayton family. A summer when she'll make the almost unattainable Jay Logan hers. A summer to surpass all dreams. 

Some of this turns out to be true. Some of it doesn't. When Jules and her family suffer a devastating tragedy that forces the girls apart, Jules becomes a stranger whom Cricket wonders whether she ever really knew. And instead of lying on the beach working on her caramel-colored tan, Cricket is making beds and cleaning bathrooms to support herself in paradise for the summer. But it's the things Cricket hadn't counted on--most of all, falling hard for someone who should be completely off-limits--that turn her dreams into an exhilarating, bittersweet reality. A beautiful future is within her grasp, and Cricket must find the grace to embrace it. If she does, her life could be the perfect shade of Nantucket blue.

Review: Nantucket Blue is your classic summer romance and coming of age story, with a twist. Cricket's plans for an unforgettable summer with her best friend on the beautiful island of Nantucket change abruptly once her best friend Jules loses a family member. Suddenly Cricket is left somewhat stranded without a best friend and a place to stay on Nantucket. Still holding out hope for an unforgettable summer, Cricket finds a job at an Inn and takes fate into her own hands. Along her summer journey of finding herself, she also finds love from someone you never would expect and also discovered that she and her mother may be more similar than she originally expected.

Bottom Line: A good summer read that I couldn't put down.

Rating(1-5): 4