Advanced Audiobook Review: Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews
Summers at the Saint
Author: Mary Kay Andrews
Narrator: Kathleen McInerney
To Be Published: May 7, 2024
Audiobook: 14 hours 34 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: April 12-21, 2024
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Audiobook Description:
Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and scandals run even deeper. . . .
Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as “the Saint.” If you grew up coming here, you were “a Saint.” If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were “an Ain’t.” Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn’t rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One fateful summer she did, and married the boss’s son. Now, she’s the widowed owner of the hotel, determined to see it return to its glory days, even as staff shortages and financial troubles threaten to ruin it. Plus, her greedy and unscrupulous brother-in-law wants to make sure she fails. Enlisting a motley crew of recently hired summer help—including the daughter of her estranged best friend—Traci has one summer season to turn it around. But new information about a long-ago drowning at the hotel threatens to come to light, and the tragic death of one of their own brings Traci to the brink of despair.
Traci Eddings has her back against the pink-painted wall of this beloved institution. And it will take all the wits and guts she has to see wrongs put to right, to see guilty parties put in their place, and maybe even to find a new romance along the way. Told with Mary Kay Andrew’s warmth, humor, knack for twists, and eye for delicious detail about human nature, Summers at the Saint is a beach read with depth and heart.
Jessica’s Review:
Here we go! It is time for MKA’s new beach read that is out just in time for the start of summer! MKA always has a lot going on in her books and there is a little bit of everything for a reader to enjoy here.
We have suspense, mystery intrigue and even a little romance thrown in. There are family secrets, betrayals, danger, and murders! If you have followed my reviews for some time you know MKA is an auto-read author for me. And she’s also from Georgia, so that automatically gives her bonus points. She’s wonderful to meet as well.
The narrator is Kathleen McInerney again and these two are just perfection together. MKA’s story telling her McInerney’s narration just bring it.
Do me a favor, if you have yet to read a book by MKA, please pick one up and read it. If audiobooks are your thing, listen to it and experience both wonderful ladies!
My April 2024 Reads
It’s May 1st and here are my April reads! I’m slowly getting my reading back up, I got 6 books read or listened to and two of them were short stories. Two were also advanced copies.
Here is a list of the books in the order I finished them:
Granite Harbor by Peter Nichols (Audio, Advanced copy) 2 stars
Just a Girl by Alyssa Cole (Audio, short story) 1 star
Baby X by Kira Peikoff (Kindle) 5 stars
Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews (Audio, Advanced copy) 4 stars
Anniebot by Sierra Greer (Audio) 4 stars
The Heart of a Mother by Julie Clark (Audio, short story) 4 stars
My favorite read was Baby X by Kira Peikoff. This one and Anniebot left me with a lot to think about with Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction. Both are very good, but Baby X knocked it out of the park with everything!
My ‘least favorite’ was a short story: Just a Girl. It just let too much to be desired and did not work for me.
What did YOU read in April?
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