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Summary: A disappointing let-down
Review: Having read and thoroughly enjoyed "On Mystic Lake" & "Angel Falls", both of which I would rate with 5 stars, I had high expectations of "Summer Island". Instead, I found this book to be rather schmaltzy with a predictable ending. Mother and Daughter are estranged for several years. Mother is a high-profile radio personality. Daughter is down in her luck. Mother gets injured in a car accident soon after her career goes down the tubes. Mother and Daughter spend a week together at the family's summer home breaking the ice and revealing their true colors and feelings to one another. In the mean time, Daughter's first love is nearby at his summer home spending the last few days with his dying brother. The outcome of Daughter's & estranged boyfriend's relationship is predictable, too. I gave this book 2 stars because of the heartfelt storyline between the two brothers. But overall, I felt the characters were right out of Soap Opera Digest.
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Summary: Boring and Same Old, Same Old
Review: I received this book for free, and I'm glad I didn't pay anything for it. It was boring and predictable. Very drawn out. This is the first book I've read by Kristin Hannah. I surely hope her others are better and deeper than this one. Very disappointing.
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Summary: Beautiful 4 1/2 Star Story that left me in Tears...
Review: This has got to be one of the most touching stories I have ever read. A story about a mother who tries to get close to her daughter she hasn't seen in 10 years and the pain that ensues. A tide of emotions and trials that left me crying at the end. A true life look into a real family's heartbreak. I would've given this wonderful story 5 stars, but I thought the parts with Dean (the long lost boyfriend from yesteryear who shows up again to find Ruby)(Ruby is the daughter, 27 now) were unneccesary to the plot. He just shows up after 10 years and we the reader are supposed to accept him. I didn't like his character and thought he was weak and had no place in this tale. ~Nora Bridge walked out on her family 10 years ago. She left behind two daughters and a distraught husband at Summer Island, Washington. She is now a sucessful talkshow host on the radio and has a nationally syndicated newspaper column famous for honest advice and straightforward opinion. Nora's problem is that a tabloid has gathered long ago pictures of her with a man while she was married and a scandal is about to erupt. An accident leaves her unable to care for herself and she calls her eldest daughter who still keeps in touch. She in turns calls the youngest Ruby to help since she has her own family an cannot do it. The problem? Ruby HATES her. Ruby has spent the last ten years hating and dispising her mother for leaving.
But a deal from a magazine pays her handsomely to write a tell-all book on Nora and Ruby accepts. That means she will have to take up residence with Nora at Summer Island. The place of her childhood...the place where everything fell apart. Nora has 1 week to reconcile with Ruby and Ruby does not make it easy. But as time passes and their fights erupt, Ruby sees her mother for the first time. Truly sees her. What she sees is heartbreaking...Ruby is stunned. In turn Nora truly sees her daughter and desperately wants to have her in her life. She needs Ruby as much as Ruby needs her. They are lost souls trying to reconnect. Sometimes the truth is harder to accept than what you've devised it to be, but in the end, its what brings us together again.
How can Ruby write this now? Now when she had found her mother after all these years? A long lost love from years past comes calling again and she must make a decision...forgive and forget or live in anger... Truly a tearjerker. Well worth the money...made me happy that I am so close with my own mother...
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