Review One More Summer by Liz Flaherty
Posted by Nicole on Feb 14, 2012 in A Reviews, Contemporary, D-F Authors | 0 comments
Grace has taken care of her widowed father her entire adult life and the ornery old goat has finally died. She has no job, no skills and very little money, and has heard her father’s prediction that no decent man would ever want her so often she accepts it as fact.
But she does have a big old house on Lawyers Row in Peacock, Tennessee. She opens a rooming house and quickly gathers a motley crew of tenants: Promise, Grace’s best friend since kindergarten, who’s fighting cancer; Maxie, an aging soap opera actress who hasn’t lost her flair for the dramatic; Jonah, a sweet, gullible old man with a crush on Maxie.
And Dillon, Grace’s brother’s best friend, who stood her up on the night of her senior prom and has regretted it ever since. Dillon rents Grace’s guest house for the summer and hopes to make up for lost time and past hurts—but first, he’ll have to convince Grace that she’s worth loving…
I expected this to be your typical fluffy contemporary romance. Something a little light, with some underlying small characteristics so there was a message. What I got was this deep, gut wrenching emotional ride, that sticks with you long after you have powered off the Kindle and put the book away.
Grace’s father was super abusive but only to her. Not to her brother or sister, just her, the youngest of the three and yet she is the one who stayed to take care of him until he died. Steven, Grace’s older brother has been dating Promise for 20 years. HOW you date for 20 years is still a mystery to me, but Promise has cancer, and moves into Grace’s home so she can help her through the chemo. Faith is Grace’s sister, a character so kind hearted that you well, I kind of hated her for being so nice. its just not natural. Then there’s Maxie, a friend of the family that just never left. But she is also beginning to develop Alzheimer’s and Grace’s part time handyman who loves her from afar has started to take care of her.
Even through this is a romance novel, but this is NOT about romantic love. This is a story of friendship. Of caring, and secrets being revealed, and of friends sticking by each other when life gets difficult.
There was someone on Goodreads who said that the cover and the description don’t match the book inside. This is SO true. This book is so much more than whats on the cover. Read Ms. Flaherty, and read this book.
Overall Rating: A-
