Published
by Penguin Random House on May 4th, 2024
368 pages
I read the
paperback version
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cover
Lucy is the
tourist vacationing 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.
Each year, Lucy escapes to PEI 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.
If Lucy can’t help being drawn to Felix, at least she’s always kept her heart
out of it.
When Bridget suddenly 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 just how safe her heart truly is.
My
review
I have to
admit my favorite book from this author is still Meet me at the lake, but I
also liked this one especially because it’s happening in the Prince Edward
Island the same place than Anne of Green Gables. Since Anne was the first book,
I read by myself, the story has a place special in my heart and Lucy is
mentioned it a few times in the novel. I never had a chance to go there, but at
least I had a chance to travel while I was reading this book.
If you like
slow burn romance, I will recommend it to you. I have to warn you that you have
to be patient because Lucy and Felix’s relationship takes time to develop. I
like that because it makes it more believable especially that Lucy is living in
Toronto and Felix is living in PEI. The protagonist has issues she have to deal
with before she opens to her best friend’s brother and I was hoping to find
what it was while I was reading. You can wait almost until the end to find it.
If I have
to choose my favorite character, I would choose Felix because I couldn’t get
why Bridget didn’t want her BFF be in love and Lucy was taking her sweet time
to take her decision. The story is predictable, but since I am a huge fan of
romance, I enjoy every line of it.
Stacy is my
second favorite character. She made me
think when she said at Lucy that she should live her life her herself and no
one else and it’s the character that make me feel a roller coaster of emotion
from the beginning till the end.
It’s the
third novel from this author, you do not have to read her other two to
understand, since it’s a different story. It’s a great way to discover her
writing, if you do not already know her.
As much as
the romance is important to the story, I would say the friendship came in
second. Lucy’s life wouldn’t be the same if she didn’t met Bridget. Their
friendship is similar at Anne and Diana. I can’t tell you much about it without
spoiling, but something similar will happens to Lucy, but you have to read the
third book of Anne’series to understand what is it.
Excerpts
" Your problem will seem smaller once
we get to the island, " Bridget had promised yesterday. I
was slumped at the kitchen counter in our apartment, forehead on the granite.
She rubbed my back. " Don’t listen to your parents.
You’ve got his, Bee. " (p.4)
Because
Bridget is my most cherished person. My sage. My sister. I’d do anything she
asked me to, including an emergency trip. Including not falling in love. (p.31)
Bridget is
wearing her dad’s History is not boring T-shirt and a pair of leggings she
describes as loving worn but are actually more hole than pant. She has no time
for fashion, and her design sense is atrocious. She once tried her hand at
flower arranging, and when I asked whether she was color blind, she thought I
was joking. Every so often, she sends me photos of bouquets she thinks I’ll
like. They’re terrible, and I love them. (p.62)
" If there’s one thing I can teach
you, Lucy, " Stacy said as I sobbed into my
wine, " it’s to live your life fully, to live it for
yourself and no one else. I know hoe much you love this place, but I have to do
what’s right for me, just as you have to do what’s right for you. " (p.84)
I hadn’t
told my parents yet. I could already hear my dad, " It’s a
sign, Lucy Gosse – time to get a real job. " To my
parents, that meant a salary and a cubicle, but I didn’t want that. I wanted In
Bloom. (p.88)
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