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Update: This book is free today on Amazon! A cracking way to be introduced to 1 of my new favourite authors, Julia Gabriel. The 4th volume in this series captivated me!Summer Again: Another fabulous read! I really Googled "St. Caroline, Maryland" to see if it really existed: I would love to have a trip there: Julia Gabriel has created such an highly-seasoned setting for her St. Caroline serial of books. Julia Gabriel'due south first book in the St. Caroline serial, Don't expect this story to fall into all the usual tropes. While Lucy and Sterling had shared some hot moments in the neighbour's boathouse as teens, in that location were no declarations of undying love or cleaved hearts hither. Lucy eventually worked her mode through college, married then divorced her faithless husband, and found a job at the one identify she had always been truly happy: the Chesapeake Inn in St. Caroline. Sterling was shipped off to boarding school, then college, and then off to Europe to "find himself" and live off his trust fund. But, fifteen years subsequently, when Lucy and Sterling see again on the battleground that was Chesapeake Inn, sparks start flying and these two just can't seem to resist each other. The fate of the army camp is ever in the background of their attraction: each of them believes they can use their mutual sexual allure to convince the other to back down on the campground issue. I will let you find out for yourself if these two resolve their issues and discover a way to each other again! Julia Gabriel creates lifelike characters, paints settings so alluring and inviting, and writes so beautifully that I am drawn right into her stories. I know I am repeating myself here: I said a like thing in my review of book number 4 in this series, just this bears repeating. I but honey feeling like I am sitting in a corner of the room, watching these characters in an unfolding drama. And I dare you lot not to say "aaaaaaawwwww!" at the end of this volume! Highly recommended!
For a romance novel, in that location was scant trivial romance to be found here. Lots of lust, but no romance. Lucy lives & works peacefully in quiet, rich St. Caroline until her first crush, Sterling, comes steamrolling back into town. Her love boss dies, Sterling fires her, and then he threatens the job of her best friend, literally calls her an "underprivileged ragamuffin", and and then promises to do away with the beloved summer military camp she loves. And nonetheless for page after page, all nosotros read virtually is how much she wants to sleep with him. She's mad, she's pitiful, she's embarrassed, but she still wants to slumber with him. But I approximate I shouldn't take expected too much when the male MC's proper name is "Sterling". No, "Sterling" definitely doesn't pass the When Harry Met Sally sexy proper name test. So, I read it, I finished it, and the one thing I can say about information technology is this: Adept thing it was free. Thank you and goodnight!
And this had the potential to actually be a beautiful love story! A playboy ne-er practise well who comes dorsum to his hometown to turn the family business around ends up re-meeting a long-lost honey who has worked hard to better her position in life. This could have been the story of their journey into to a true and meaningful dearest while overcoming the innate boundaries of coin and class.
Instead, it becomes... spoiler alarm... their journey back into sex on the floor of a gunkhole shed. What a waste.
three.5 Learning to See and Understand Stars This story approaches this idea from a number of ways and makes its point. All of usa have turning points in our lives. Things happen to either open up our hearts and minds to the possibility of a life we may not have known...or we tin can shut downwardly and shut our minds to the hurting and wish things to be erased. Our primary characters shared a moment when they crossed over from gangly teens to sexual beings... Both accept lived their lives... one wandering the world, wanting financially for zilch, experiencing all the pleasures and running as far abroad from his habitation, the family business organisation, as fast as he can. No memories were warm or fuzzy. They were more than of wanting to belong to the visiting families equally he watched from a distance seeing the closeness they had. Fifty-fifty the kids participating in the clemency camp for disadvantaged teens his father had established looked like they were having fun. Funny, he would think, he was jealous of these ragtag kids bonding together for the cursory freedom they had together excluding him. Sterling did have a moment, though, with his Lucy Lou that summer... frantic, hormone-charged experience... they didn't know what they were doing... and then she was gone... For Lucy, her experience of that brusque time at the army camp... changed her path. It showed her the possibility of what a life could exist... she saw with her own optics the beauty of people being a complete family... she saw people who knew how to exist focused and accomplish things. She was encouraged to do well in simply everyday tasks and praised when they were completed. It was a welcoming feeling and she wanted more of information technology. It inverse her once she returned home. She had learned what success felt like and used that feeling to guide her through loftier school, college and learning the hotel industry. She even used that experience to marry. The marriage wasn't successful just life brought her back to the place where she had found herself... and gave her a second chance. The Inn needed a marketing director and her life's feel fit the bill. Lucy institute her home; she officially became office of the family unit... working where she loved. We find both Sterling and Lucy with opposing focuses for the Inn. His father is gravely ill; Sterling has been brought dorsum by his mother holding his inheritance over his head. If he doesn't come and handle the Inn, he volition exist cut out of his female parent'due south will when her time comes. The idea chills him to the os. Having to exist at the Inn brings back the loneliness and sad memories of his childhood. He has to arrange financing for the Inn and first on the agenda is to terminate the Kids Camp... Lucy is stunned past Sterling's wanting to end the camp... the impact it has had over the decades has been massive... lives have been changed, her ain life. She is not going to permit this to happen...she will think of a way to save it one manner or another. These two do seem fatigued to each other even later all the years that have passed merely they both take agendas... This story had a couple of things going for information technology. It presented to the reader how impactful time at camp could be for inner-metropolis or disadvantaged kids tin can be. It gave insight into these camps and how immature people need encouragement in all forms. It may audio bones... but it is something to remember when approached by various organizations. Many of the characters were able to develop their talents afterwards experiencing a taste of freedom and inventiveness at the camp. I was a bit disappointed in Sterling, though. Although I understood his childhood wasn't as perfect every bit it may have looked from the outside, his stubbornness in refusing to see the potential of the camp was just selfish to me. He was holding a kid's grudge... and his growth took a while. Overall, my interest was held... I wanted to run across what the upshot would exist. A gifted re-create was provided past NetGalley for an honest review. For more Reviews, Gratis Due east-books and Giveaways
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Isn't it interesting how two people can feel the same affair and each has a very different feel...how we perceive things and make assumptions can impact us; shape who we are as people...
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Loved this romance...the campsite setting evoked a "Dingy Dancing" feeling. This was a very romantic 2nd chance romance.
Equally soon as I saw the setting of this book was the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, I knew I had to read it! Growing up in Maryland, this meant summer to me. The author makes the Bay, the Chesapeake Inn and the camp for children come up to life with her words. The conflict of Lucy having to now work for her teenage beat at the inn was difficult. I liked her character a lot and could feel the different emotions she was dealing with. A good book to read on a hot summer mean solar day. And I'one thousand sure you will might only feel a bit nostalgic similar I did. I definitely recommend this heart warming book! * I was provided an ARC to read from the publisher and NetGalley. I voluntarily reviewed the book.
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March 30, 2013Gratis today on Amazon US (three/30/2013)
Simple, sweet opposites attract/second gamble romance. Sterling was a little annoying at times due to his inability to see the worth of the military camp for underprivileged kids because of his own perception of childhood slights by his father simply that was part of his growth every bit a character. Lucy more than made upwardly for Sterlings shortcomings. I loved her forcefulness and tenacity.
4.5/v.0 In this masterfully crafted novel, Julia Gabriel pits the tenacious Lucy Wyndham confronting her past in the grade of Sterling Matthew. Read full review in the 2013 June issue of InD'tale Magazine.
A actually good gimmicky romance with subtle sensual moments. It was sweet and steamy, but not overtly sexual. I really enjoyed it, and I await forward to reading more than from this author.
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