This is my 4th book by Mary Kay Andrews and this was a huge hit with most of my Goodreads friends but not with me!! What first caught my attention with this book is the lovely cover!! But the cover doesn’t really “go” with the book and you realize this after starting to read it. The 2nd thing is the main character is 99 years old. I have a thing for older characters! I can’t help it. There are a lot of characters in this book to keep track of and I found myself getting confused. It started off R...

What a PERFECT summer read. It’s southern life reminiscent of Gone With the Wind and the WWll 50’s era mixed into the present. All taking place on picturesque Talisa Island off Georgia’s coast. Friendships, love, mystery and murder. Yes, MURDER in an MKA novel! Mary Kay Andrews books are a hit or miss for me, but this is definitely a HIT!! I highly recommend!! 5 ☆ 🌊🦀

🧜‍♀️ 4 Mermaid Beach Stars to The High Tide Club! 🧜‍♀️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ I can still remember reading my first book by Mary Kay Andrews. I was in graduate school, and my cousin (one of my favorite reading buddies) told me I just had to read Hissy Fit. Filled with southern charm and humor, I had experienced nothing like it before. Mary Kay Andrews was offering something different! Several years later, and Mary Kay Andrews continues to offer something different. The High Tide Club is more serious than h...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 / 5 rounded up.The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews was exactly the type of book I needed to read right now. It made me think of a hug - warm, fuzzy, and it made me feel good. There is some drama and it's not {all} fun and games, but that's what made it great.I remember reading another book by this author and not loving it, but The High Tide Club was amazing. I think it is definitely the epitome of the perfect beach/summer read and it got me in the mood to go to an island. The story

It's the cover that drew me to this book. It's lovely! The story was just ok for me. It was not really what I was expecting and I found it to be really slow especially the beginning to the middle.I usually enjoy past to present timeline stories. Perhaps I didn't find the characters all that memorable.The story in the 1940's involves a group of women who call themselves, "The High Tide Club" as they go skinny-dipping on their vacation island in Georgia together. There's a murder that occurs very

These women and their ancestors were incredibly to read about. This was my first Mary Kay Andrews book and I found it so amazing! I will be checking out her other books in the near future for sure. The way this story and the characters are woven together is beautifully done. The way the story has mystery, friendship, romance, and family is perfectly done. I adored this book! My quick and simple overall: wonderful book and reading experience.

Wow! I really enjoyed this book. The plot switches back and forth between two time periods but not all the answers are in the past. This novel is full of secrets, twists with splash of romance. The characters are complex and the coastal island setting is inviting. Put this beach read on your summer list! 4.5 stars!

The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews is a contemporary read with an added edge of mystery to it as secrets from the past and slowly revealed during the story. The point of view is mainly that of Brooke Trappnell, a thirty something single mother who is struggling to make it as a lawyer in a small town but there are flashes into the long ago past to a group of ladies that called themselves the High Tide Club led by now ninety nine year old Josephine Bettendorf Warrick.If being ninety nine isn’t...

Finding her childhood friends and making amends was one of Josephine Bettendorf Warrick’s dying wishes. Josephine and her two childhood friends had created THE HIGH TIDE CLUB during one night of fun.The girls were lifelong friends until Josephine had words with them. Brooke Trappnell was hired by Josephine to find these women or their descendants because she wanted to leave her island to them since she had no children of her own. Josephine is an ornery woman who wants what she wants. Brooke desp...

I wish I could tell you I loved this book, but I didn't, and so I'll do my best to explain why.The story is told in two timelines that seem to compete more than to complement each other. All four women from 'The High Tide Club' have narrating parts in the past timeline, and their stories meander, providing so much extraneous detail that it distracts from the present. The present timeline is told mostly from Brooke's perspective, and also gets caught up in the tendency to wander outside the point...

The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews is a 2018 St. Martin’s Press publication. A Southern style beach read-When ninety-nine- year old Josephine Bettendorf Warrick commissions Brooke Trappnell to gather her old friends from the ‘High Tide Club’ together before she passes away, Brooke is taken aback by her request. Josephine wants to make amends with her old friends and intends to bequeath them her estate on Talisa Island. Brooke is stunned to discover her own grandmother had once been a charter...

The High Tide Club is a story about friendship and the great lengths people will go for their true friends. Brooke Trappnell, a young attorney and single mom to 3-year old Henry, receives a call regarding an unspecified legal matter from the well-known, Josephine Bettendorf Warwick, of Talisa, an island off the coast of Georgia. Brooke visits 99-year old Josephine who is ill and wants to preserve her home and property in Talisa, as well as make amends with her three friends: Millie, Ruth, and Va...

Mary Kay Andrews is another of my favorite authors. She always has a good read. The characters are great and so is the story. This one had a little bit of a mystery in it which made it really good IMO. I told friends about the book and told them I could see this as a TV movie on Hallmark or Lifetime. The characters are that easy to relate to and you love them all. Definitely recommend especially if you like Southern authors and stories about the South.

Release Date: May 8, 2018 Genre: Women's FictionThe High Tide Club is much different than what I anticipated going into it, but it was well worth the surprise. Mary Kay Andrews has a way with words. She weaves beautiful and original tales that play on readers emotions while also opening up their minds and hearts. Even more, she brings her characters to life by building them up and making them seem like real people. I love the flow of her stories, how everything comes together in perfect detai

Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my review or rating. Warning. This is not a beach read. This is a story of barely developed characters, subtle racism (overt in some cases) a secret child story-line (I hate those) and a plot that zigs-zags from the past to the present repeatedly. I was left 100 percent disappointed with this read and baffled that Andrews wrote this. I have enjoyed her books over the years and this book feels/reads like a rough first draft

4.5 Stars..rounded up!Any other Mary Kay Andrews fans? I just adore all her books and this one definitely did not disappoint! Her books intertwine relationships in such a meticulous way and it's something I love most about her books!The high tide club, that sounds like a group of people who maybe like to go boating or live by the shore right? Well this is a different kind of high tide club. This is four close girlfriends who grew up together, were like sister but had many secrets intertwined. Th...

I picked the best Summer book:) And it was all based on the cover, which just screams beach read. This was my first book by this author and I really liked her style of writing. Will definitely be looking at more of her books. In this story we follow Brooke as she gets a phone call from an eccentric old lady that lives on on a tiny island, Talisa, in the south of Georgia. Curious, Brooke goes to talk to Josephine who is at the end of her life and wants to make amends with her old High Tide Club f...

Seems every book I've read that's been placed in the South has a huge mansion on an island type with virtual no signal for cell phones. AND I LOVE IT! The author takes us from the early 1940s to present day as we get to know the ladies back then, to the offspring now. A story within a story and both just delightful to read.The history of the island, the people that occupied it, the way the world was then as compared to now... we get it all - including the drama and secrets that are kept in both....

Mysterious, sentimental, and uplifting!The High Tide Club is an alluring tale that delves into the life of ninety-nine-year Josephine Bettendorf Warrick and all the friendships, lies, secrets, and promises she made, told, and broke over her lifetime.The prose is clear and fluid. The characters are well-developed, unique, and inquisitive. And the plot, alternating between past and present, is a nostalgic, twisty tale full of familial drama, loss, grief, war, forgiveness, deception, happiness, lov...

While the story is intriguing from the start, it was somewhat a slow start for me. I had difficulty to jump into it. But once inside, oh my. There are a lot of twists and turns. It could have been disorienting, but Mary Kay Andrews won't let you down. Big thanks to the publisher for my e-copy through NetGalley.