The Five-Star Weekend
At your speed≈ 8 hrs
Pages400
Audiobook≈ 13½ hrs
Every reading time on the site updates to your pace. Page counts are an estimate, so treat the hours as a good guide, not a stopwatch.
400 pages works out to roughly 120,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 8 hrs — a weekend's reading.
Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.73 out of 5, from 73 ratings.
Worth-it score 5.7/10 — Worth it for some readers. Readers 5.9 (Hardcover's 3.73★ from 73 ratings) − length 0.2 = 5.7. How the score works →
How long does it take to read The Five-Star Weekend?
The Five-Star Weekend is 400 pages, or roughly 120,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:
| Your pace | Words per minute | Time to finish |
|---|---|---|
| Slow | 175 | 11½ hrs |
| Average | 250 | 8 hrs |
| Fast | 400 | 5 hrs |
Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 13½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.
Common questions
- How long does it take to read The Five-Star Weekend?
- About 8 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. The Five-Star Weekend runs 400 pages, roughly 120,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 11½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 5 hrs.
- How many pages is The Five-Star Weekend?
- 400 pages, which is about 120,000 words and 8 hrs of reading. Editions vary, and only Hardcover lists a page count for it, so treat it as approximate.
- Is The Five-Star Weekend worth reading?
- We score it 5.7 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth it for some readers. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.73 out of 5 from 73 ratings, which counts for 5.9; at about 8 hrs at an average pace it gives back 0.2 for its length.
- How long is The Five-Star Weekend audiobook?
- About 13½ hrs, estimated from the 120,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.
From the publisher
Hollis Shaw, creator of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, is shocked when her heart surgeon husband, Matthew, is killed in a one-car accident on a snowy February morning.…
In Hollis's search for comfort, she hears about something called the "Five Star" weekend - a woman invites her best friend from each stage of her life - her teenage years, her twenties, her thirties and mid-life. Hollis decides she will host such a weekend on Nantucket--but her weekend won't be the Hallmark movie that one might expect... There's Tatum, Hollis's best friend from growing up on Nantucket, whose husband invites his childhood best friend and Hollis's first love, Jack Finigan, to spend time with them, stirring up old feelings... ...Dru-ann, Hollis's best friend from from UNC Chapel Hill, now a prominent Black female sports agent in Chicago whose comments about a client's mental health are misconstrued and land her in hot Twitter storm, making her in danger of losing her job and her boyfriend right before the weekend... ...Brooke, Hollis's best friend who helped raise her kids with Hollis during their thirties in Wellesley, MA, who was previously ousted from the Wellesley mom friend group by the leader, Electra, and will be meeting up with Electra this weekend for drinks on Nantucket to make amends... ...and Gigi, who reached out to Hollis on her food blog to become "internet besties." (No one knows Gigi, not even Hollis.) All the while during their stay, Hollis's daughter Caroline - an NYU documentary student - is filming the entire weekend and conducting interviews with each of the women in the hopes of making a short film. Caroline has just ended her first adult relationship, an affair with Ghanaian documentarian Isaac Opoku, and she bumps into her teenage crush Dylan McKenzie (Tatum's son) at the airport. With so much unresolved within each of Hollis's friendships and her daughter, and amid Hollis's own turning point after losing Matthew, what could potentially go wrong? Filled with the emotional depth and trademark cast-of-characters perspective of Hilderbrand's novels, The Five-Star Weekend promises a story of a remarkable weekend between friends--old and new--like no other.
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