Wednesday 29 May 2019

Audio: The summer cottage - Viola Shipman



Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-23-19
Language: English
Publisher: Harlequin Audio
Womens fic
To review

My Thoughts
I remember seeing something about 50+ people finding love, and no, this is not a romance, but maybe she finds love (she totally does!). And it felt nice to see someone mature find love too.

Adie Lou has been through a divorce (her hubbie left her for a college student, that asshat!). And even though she has a well paid job, she wants more. She wants something new. She is tired of her jo, tired of seeing men pass her for promotions. She needs to find herself again.

So she decides to make her grandparents summer cottage into a b&b. Of course I at once thought of a Finnish one and was all how?!? But it seems this one has over 8 bedrooms, so that is bloody palace. But it will not be easy. She knows nothing about that kind of life. There is so much work to be done. She has doubts. She finds friends, and yes she does get a chance of some romance too.

I do confess that it is really cheesy sweet. Everything works out and there are quotes everywhere. I would brand it Hallmark feel good book. Make this a Hallmark movie and it would fit right in. And I liked that, the sweet, the hopeful tone of the book.

Narrator
I have listened to Tanya Eby before, and I do like her voice. She also fitted very well for this role and this sort of story. It was enjoyable listening to her and I find her different voices well done.

Adie Lou Kruger’s ex never understood her affection for what her parents called their Cozy Cottage, the charming, ramshackle summer home - complete with its own set of rules for relaxing - that she’s inherited on Lake Michigan. But despite the fact she’s facing a broken marriage and empty nest and that middle age is looming in the distance, memories of happy childhoods on the beach give her reason for hope. She’s determined not to let her husband’s affair with a grad student reduce her to a cliché or to waste one more minute in a career she doesn’t love, so it becomes clear what Adie Lou must do: rebuild her life and restore her cottage shingle by shingle, on her terms.
But converting the beloved, weather-beaten structure into a bed-and-breakfast isn’t quite the efficient home-reno experience she’s seen on TV. Pushback from Saugatuck’s contentious preservation society, costly surprises, and demanding guests were not part of the plan. But as the cottage comes back to life, Adie Lou does, too, finding support in unexpected places and a new love story on the horizon.
One cottage rule at a time, Adie Lou reclaims her own strength, history, and joy by rediscovering the magic in every sunset and sandcastle.

23 comments:

  1. I loved this on Blodeuedd. I'm all about the Hallmark :)

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  2. it's nice to have older characters

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  3. Sometimes you just need a Hallmark kind of romance. This sounds delightful my friend!

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  4. I like the bed and breakfast type stories.

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  5. I felt the same away about this one, I love that it was simple and sweet and everything works out, but there were definitely plenty of those moments where I was rolling my eyes a bit because it was cheesy, I even said that in my review, but still I liked it. I just wrote the longest run on sentence.

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    1. SO cheesy, I can not remember the scene at the moment but I was all Cheesy! LOL

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  6. Oh nice, a story about an older character finding love. This sounds really sweet!

    ~Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum

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    1. We all need love :D So yes I liked that

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  7. A hallmark feel good, I'm for it and actually have it on my shelf but not audio.

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  8. After all the dark thrillers I've been reading lately, I need something sweet! Sounds good.

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  9. I want to live on that cover. Sweet women's fic that isn't a romance, but is a Hallmark movie? I'm intrigued. Thanks.

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