The Book Club Hotel - Women's Fiction Done Right

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The Book Club Hotel is Women's Fiction done right. The gorgeous pastel-dominant book cover captures the overall light tone accented by real-life issues. One thing I hate in books is multiple main characters with multiple subplots. However, the book club hotel handles this element masterfully as it weaves in and out of each the individual woman's life with effortless agility.

Erica, Anna, and Claire are three women at crossroads in their lives: Anna, the homemaker, is feeling anxious and unappreciated with her kids leaving the house and going off to college. Clair the Chef just lost her job and her passion and is not even sure if she wants to cook anymore. Finally Erica, the risk management agent who is married to her job, is about to get her world turned upside down. 

In the meantime, the owner of the hotel they decide to have a getaway at has her own problems trying to live up to the ghost of her dead husband who ran the hotel before her.

Fittingly the romantic element is made subservient to the overarching theme which is a group of lost women trying to find themselves in whichever way they see fit. The book plays with the concept of love and what that might mean for certain people. For some it's a place or an occupation. For some, it's sororal. For others still, it's an appreciation for the things in front of you.  

It is both elegant and masterful the way she interweaves these stories. She creates characters (the men and the women) not so flawed they're unlikable but not so perfect that they're unrelatable. She shows us something not just about a small circle of friends about humanity and how we can fit together like a puzzle to accomplish things and sometimes if you put your problems next to another persons, it gives you a new perspective. 

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