HerKentucky Whiskey Glass Rating: 🥃🥃🥃

Publisher’s synopsis: It's a hot August Saturday on Nantucket Island. Over the course of the next 24 hours, two lives will be transformed forever.

Marguerite Beale, former chef of culinary hot spot Les Parapluies, has been out of the public eye for over a decade. This all changes with a phone call from Marguerite's goddaughter, Renata Knox.

Marguerite has not seen Renata since the death of Renata's mother, Candace Harris Knox, fourteen years earlier. And now that Renata is on Nantucket visiting the family of her new fiancé, she takes the opportunity, against her father's wishes, to contact Marguerite in hopes of learning the story of her mother's life--and death.

But the events of the day spiral hopelessly out of control for both women, and nothing ends up as planned.

HerKentucky review: College student Renata Knox visits Nantucket to meet her fiancé’s family. Along the way, she uncovers the story of her late mother’s friendship with infamous former chef Marguerite Beale. Like the Blue Bistro, I wanted to like this story more than I did. The characters are well-crafted and the attention to detail is painstaking, but the characters are so needlessly melancholy and broken.

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