Publication date: May 19th 2020
Pages: 368
Review copy with special thanks to Simon and Schuster USA
The book starts when the main character of Big Summer, Daphne Berg, has a meeting in Manhattan with what it seems a fashion designer to see if they can do a collaboration for Daphne's Instagram account.
This because she walked in on someone she had a fight with years ago; Drue Cavanaugh. Drue was everything in high school that Daphne felt she wasn't; pretty and rich. Daphne is struggling with her self image, as she is on the curvy side. Drue invites Daphne to attend her lavish Cape Cod wedding in a few weeks, as it seems she has no real friends left to invite, and maybe this is a good opportunity for Daphne to show on her Insta how fabulous the wedding is and tag Drue in it?
To her own surprise, Daphne says yes. What does she have to lose? At the day before the wedding, she arrives at the grand wedding location at Cape Cod, which is located at different beach house estates. She meets up with a friend of Drue, Nick, and this leads to the romance of the story.
But from there on, things turn sour pretty quickly the day after, when the wedding is about to happen. In the hot tub that Daphne had a quite a romantic evening with Nick the night before, she finds Drue facedown and dead in the water. Daphne is the first to be investigated by the police, as the working hot tub was located outside her room, the room where Nick is nowhere to be found now..why did he run away right now? Daphne starts to investigate on her own what happened to Drue and if Nick might have something to do with it. But during her investigation she finds out there is a wide range of people who where not on good terms with Drue for one reason or another, so it is hard to find the suspect, until one day she finds the lead...
When you start reading the book, you have no idea that this book will turn into a true mystery book. The story starts a bit slow and with some not so strong story points here and there, but it really takes a turn for the better when the drama with Drue starts. Then the story gets really really good! The sleuthing and investigation to find the murderer of Drue is a true page turner, and Jennifer Weiner does a great job to not reveal to much and keeping the reader guessing untill the last part. The book reminded me in someway of Meg Cabot's '' Heather Wells '' mysteries ( Size 12 is not Fat, Size 14 Isn't fat either etc) as it had the same kind of storyline and buildup and conclusion of the murder mystery.
Anyhow, this is just one of the new amazing books by bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, it totally surprised me and I hope it will surprise many other readers too!!
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