Book: This Summer Will Be Different
Author: Carly Fortune
Pages: 368
This is my 144th read for the year
Here is what Amazon has to say:
Lucy is the tourit vacatining at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn't know he's her best friend's younger brother. Lucy and Felix's chemistry is unreal, but the list of reasons why they need to stay away from each other is long, and they vow to never repeat that electric night again. It's easier said than done. Eah year, Lucy escapes to Prince Edward Island for a big breath of coastal air, fresh oysters, and crisp vinho verde with her best friend, Bridget. Every visit begins with a long walk on the beach, beneath soaring red cliffs and a golden sun. And every visit Lucy promises herself she won't wind up in Felix's bed. Again. When Bridget suddently flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy drops everything to follow her to the island. Her mission is to help Bridget through her crisis and resist the one man she's never been able to. But Felix's sparkling eyes and flirty quips have been replaced with something new, and Lucy's beginning to wonder how safe her heart truly is.
I wanted to like this book. I really did. I usually steer cleer of romance novels, but it is summer and I have a few challenge categories I need books for. But I really did not like this book. I did in the beginning. I liked Lucy and Bridget and I loved the scene painted of Prince Edward Island. That is one thing that a lot of romance novels get right - they are cozy and draw you into the scenery and wish you were there. Just like a good Hallmark Christmas movie. But that is where the good ends. This quickly became more Fifty Shades of Gray (sex wise) and less rom com and that is just not something I care for in books It is a personal opinion but the almost constant descriptive sex took away from the story. They drug Bridget's "secret" out forever to the appoint of annoyance and in the end - that wasn't that big of a deal. The writing always went downhill as the story continued and I found myself wishing it would just end already. I could feel no chemistry between Lucy and Felix - just sex. There was no Romance. The epilogue was a little redeeming, but overall - I did not care for the book.
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