LoveHampton | Sherri Rifkin | amusing summer breeze

LoveHampton | Sherri Rifkin | More than a "beach read"

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LoveHampton

	LoveHampton Sherri Rifkin St. Martin's Griffin, 2008 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

amusing summer breeze

Manhattan media expert Tori Miller feels her world is imploding when the love of her life dumps her with no warning and her employer dumps her with even less warning. Still Tori somewhat rebounds from her woes by opening up her own production company, MillerWorks.

However her two "J" employees and her buddy Alice worry about her depression and rejection of males. They form the "Transformation Trio" using Tori as the first makeover on their new TV reality show. The new glamorous Tori joins a Hampton time sharing summerhouse with five yuppies. The rules drive her crazy as they change before she can learn them and contradict one another so one is doomed to break them. Still that insanity does not prevent her from trysting with housemate Andrew Kane or helping another mate Cassie Dearborn with her escapades.

LOVEHAMPTON is an amusing summer breeze as Tori takes over the Hamptons. The support cast is strong in Manhattan and on Long Island, but the tale belongs to the star as Tori finds this is the most wonderful summer of her life even as she breaks the sacred timesharing taboos.

Harriet Klausner

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More than a "beach read"

LoveHampton
I have just finished reading Lovehampton and enjoyed every minute of it - surprising since I am a grandmother of eight! Perhaps it is because I also have daughters - or I related to the personalities of the group and Sherri sustained my interest in their development. Read this on whatever level you choose and you will find that it is a GREAT beach read, but also so much more!

I fell in love ...

I bought this book thinking I would take it to the beach with me on Memorial Day weekend, but then I started reading it and couldn't put it down (now I need to find something else to read)! It's as fun and funny as several Sex and the City episodes, with totally lovable and relatable characters (you'll even love the "baddies" for how bad they are). It really captures the essence of summer shares, Hamptons-mania, the trek to the beach, the feelings of inadequacy in the face of great beauty and wealth, the sweetness of a first kiss with a new boyfriend/girlfriend. A great beach read, a real mini-vaction.

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Loved, loved it

I am a picky reader. I am especially picky about my contemporary romance reads. Although some dislike the term "chick lit", to me it is a badge of honor! I have been recently bemoaning the apparent demise of the genre. Well, I am thrilled to report that LOVEHAMPTON is literally making me eat my words!

This debut novel, written by Sherri Rifkin has brought back all that is wonderful about a well written contemporary romance.

Our main character Tori (or it is Miller?) has led the life of a recluse for the last two years, thanks to her former boyfriend. Well, her friends aren't going to take it anymore and practically force her to take part in a house sharing program in the Hamptons and we get to along for the ride.

I absolutely adored the detailed scenes of the socialite parties, the beautiful clothes and the even more wild relationships and hook-ups (although these were all described with surprisingly little sexual content) - which tells me that the author understands that, for most of us, reading these books is really about romance and love (okay and maybe a little bit about the shoes and the clothes!!!).

Although there is alot going on (there are quite a few characters to keep track of), Rifkin somehow manages to make us care about each and every character - although I have to admit it was more of a stretch for me to care about Leigh!

However, throughout the good times, the partying and the in-fighting (you knew there had to be some right?') - the author never forgets about Tori - and the fact that this character is a smart, hurt and vulnerable person.

Although, at times, I have to admit that I wanted to scream at her to 'get tougher' and to 'stop letting other people tell you what to do', it is obvious, by the end of the story, that the author had a very definite arc planned for her. I thouroughly enjoyed watching Tori learn her lessons the hard way and through it all still held on to her empathy, warmth and hope!

I loved, loved, loved this book. I can't wait for the second book by this author.

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A Perfect Summer Read

Lovehampton is a page turner with a dash of romance thrown in. The situations and moments which seven strangers share during a summer together in a time share in the Hamptons, make for a hilarious and compelling read. With laugh out loud lines like "she looks like the kind of girl Molly Ringwald would be intimidated by in a John Hughes movie", Sherri Rifkin must have been channeling her inner Loreli Gilmore.
Pop culture references aside, Lovehampton's main character, Tori (Miller), loses herself after a bad breakup. Following a makeover that leaves Tori dressed to kill, she loses herself once again as she gets too caught up in the Hamptons' lifestyle. When the summer time share ends at Labor Day, I found myself wanting the book to last thru another summer season

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