A fast and enjoyable read.
Set on an island some miles off the Maine coast. Nicole and Charlotte were like sisters and had spent summers on the island at Nicole's family home. They grew up and distance and secrets kept them apart for ten years. Then Nicole gets a contract to write a cookbook and decides to go to the island. She is into the farm to table long before it's popular and that's what the island is all about. Charlotte travels the world writing, so she asks her to come to the island to help. Through an island bad boy and medical problems into the mix.
Will the secrets come out? Will it destroy the friendship?
AMAZON - Sweet Salt Air
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
Monday, March 30, 2015
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
MOON OVER EDISTO by Beth Webb Hart
A very fast, enjoyable read.
Julia is an artist living in New York City. She and her sister grew up in Charleston and their summer cottage on Edisto. She had a great childhood and loving family. That all changed after she started bringing home her college roommate. Marney and Julia's father had an affair, that ended up breaking up Julia's family. She has been gone for a long time, then gets sucked back into it after Marney has cancer. Julia spends a week caring for her half sisters and brother. She also reconnects with a boy from her childhood. However, she has a fiancé and is due to be in Budapest for the summer.
AMAZON - Moon Over Edisto
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
Julia is an artist living in New York City. She and her sister grew up in Charleston and their summer cottage on Edisto. She had a great childhood and loving family. That all changed after she started bringing home her college roommate. Marney and Julia's father had an affair, that ended up breaking up Julia's family. She has been gone for a long time, then gets sucked back into it after Marney has cancer. Julia spends a week caring for her half sisters and brother. She also reconnects with a boy from her childhood. However, she has a fiancé and is due to be in Budapest for the summer.
AMAZON - Moon Over Edisto
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
Monday, March 23, 2015
THE LAST ORIGINAL WIFE by Dorothea Benton Frank
A very fast read. About beginnings and endings.
Leslie and Wesley had been married for a long time, they had two grown children and a granddaughter. They lived in Atlanta and Wes and his friends were quite successful. His friends, Harold and Paolo were married to new wives; Leslie called them barbies. She is the last one still married to her first husband. The story is a little back in forth as it switches from Leslie and her counselor to Wes and his, once you get past that and the full story starts to emerge it gets really good. At one point Leslie has had enough and leaves to go to Charleston, their home town to stay with her brother. Where she reconnects with her high school boyfriend.
Will she and Wes survive?
AMAZON - The Last Original Wife
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
Leslie and Wesley had been married for a long time, they had two grown children and a granddaughter. They lived in Atlanta and Wes and his friends were quite successful. His friends, Harold and Paolo were married to new wives; Leslie called them barbies. She is the last one still married to her first husband. The story is a little back in forth as it switches from Leslie and her counselor to Wes and his, once you get past that and the full story starts to emerge it gets really good. At one point Leslie has had enough and leaves to go to Charleston, their home town to stay with her brother. Where she reconnects with her high school boyfriend.
Will she and Wes survive?
AMAZON - The Last Original Wife
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
THE SUMMER WIND-the Low Country Summer Trilogy by Mary Alice Monroe
What can go wrong with a story about family, dolphins and the beach? Nothing. A very quick and enjoyable read.
Three half sisters are summoned to their grandmothers home, for the summer. Her home Sea Breeze was on Sullivan's Island off the coast of South Carolina. Their grandmother and her maid lived there together. All the girls are going through things and Mamaw hopes they can reconnect. She plans to sell the home in the fall. Add in Dora's special needs son and a dolphin and a tropical storm among other things and you have the makings of a fun story.
AMAZON - The Summer Wind-the Low Country Summer Trilogy
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
Three half sisters are summoned to their grandmothers home, for the summer. Her home Sea Breeze was on Sullivan's Island off the coast of South Carolina. Their grandmother and her maid lived there together. All the girls are going through things and Mamaw hopes they can reconnect. She plans to sell the home in the fall. Add in Dora's special needs son and a dolphin and a tropical storm among other things and you have the makings of a fun story.
AMAZON - The Summer Wind-the Low Country Summer Trilogy
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
Saturday, March 14, 2015
DRAGONFLY IN AMBER-the second book of the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
This book is over 700 pages, so took some time for me to finish. It is worth the time.
Claire and her daughter Brianna travel to Scotland. It is 1968, the numbers that Gellie had given to Claire in a message. Claire is looking to find out information on Jamie and to finally tell Brianna the truth, now that Frank her husband has passed away. The truth that Jamie is her father. The story goes back and forth between current day and the past.
AMAZON - Dragonfly in Amber
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
Claire and her daughter Brianna travel to Scotland. It is 1968, the numbers that Gellie had given to Claire in a message. Claire is looking to find out information on Jamie and to finally tell Brianna the truth, now that Frank her husband has passed away. The truth that Jamie is her father. The story goes back and forth between current day and the past.
AMAZON - Dragonfly in Amber
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
DON'T GO by Lisa Scottoline
A very quick read.
Mike is deployed with the military medical corps. He is a podiatrist. He is married to Chloe and they have a baby girl Emily. A month before he is to go home, Chloe dies. Mike comes home on an emergency leave to bury her and make arrangements. He re ups for one more year, his sister in law and brother in law are watching Emily. Mike goes home after being injured. Then all kind of things start to happen, Chloe's best friend is murdered, Mike finds out things that were happening with Chloe before her death.
Lisa has an easy way about her writing, easy and enjoyable reads.
AMAZON - Don't Go
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
Mike is deployed with the military medical corps. He is a podiatrist. He is married to Chloe and they have a baby girl Emily. A month before he is to go home, Chloe dies. Mike comes home on an emergency leave to bury her and make arrangements. He re ups for one more year, his sister in law and brother in law are watching Emily. Mike goes home after being injured. Then all kind of things start to happen, Chloe's best friend is murdered, Mike finds out things that were happening with Chloe before her death.
Lisa has an easy way about her writing, easy and enjoyable reads.
AMAZON - Don't Go
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
BE MY LOVE- A WALKER ISLAND ROMANCE BOOK 1 by Lucy Kevin
A quick fun read.
Hanna Walker grew up on Walkers Island off the coast from Seattle. She has three sisters. For as long as she could remember there has been a feud between the Walkers and the Petersons. The Walkers had the berry farms and the Peterson's the boats and ferries. Hanna's grandfather was to marry Poppy Peterson, but ended up marrying someone else. Poppy then leaves the island never to be heard from again, presumed lost at sea. Hanna trying to get into a masters film program needs to make a film for her teacher over the summer. She comes home to film on the island and maybe uncover what really happened.
Amazon - Be My Love
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
Hanna Walker grew up on Walkers Island off the coast from Seattle. She has three sisters. For as long as she could remember there has been a feud between the Walkers and the Petersons. The Walkers had the berry farms and the Peterson's the boats and ferries. Hanna's grandfather was to marry Poppy Peterson, but ended up marrying someone else. Poppy then leaves the island never to be heard from again, presumed lost at sea. Hanna trying to get into a masters film program needs to make a film for her teacher over the summer. She comes home to film on the island and maybe uncover what really happened.
Amazon - Be My Love
SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS
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