Title: Destination Funeral
Author: Paige Harbison
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
When Babe—the complicated, magnetic matriarch of their teenage summers—dies, four estranged friends return to sleepy Mercy Island, a storm-swept stretch of coastal Georgia, summoned by the reading of her will.
Didion arrives at the timeworn pink house to find the friends she never thought she’d see again—along with the tensions, attractions, and unfinished business that once bound them together and broke them apart.
What should be a brief weekend of small talk quickly unravels when they wake up and discover…it’s Saturday. Again. And again. And again.
Trapped in a time loop with no end and no instructions, they’re forced to confront the betrayals, breakups, and buried truths that shattered them all those years ago. Because maybe, just maybe, an endless weekend is exactly what they all need to save their own lives.
I ended up loving this! I loved the past/present timelines and getting to see the story in real time, not just memories or being talked about. The friendship between these four characters was awesome, and they are people I’d genuinely like to hang out with. The setting is magical in itself, but the touch of magic the time loop adds just makes it so uch more. This would be a perfect weekend read!
Paige Harbison is from the Washington D.C. area. Destination Funeral is her newest novel.
(Galley courtesy of St. Martin’s Press in exchange for an honest review.)
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