Brenda Novak is favorite author of mine but this book, The Bookstore On the Beach ©2021, was a hot mess! Bummer! The title was so inviting, too.
Novak seemed to be undecided about the theme and general plot. There was a woman whose husband had been missing for over 18 months. A romantic interest was thwarted by the potential but improbable return of the missing husband. There was a daughter struggling with her gender identity. There was a pregnant teen. There was a lesbian friend with an abusive, alcoholic father. There was a grown victim who had been kidnapped, raped, and imprisoned as a teen. There was a woman dying of cancer. There was a grown woman longing to know who her father was. There was teenage boy at odds with his teenage sister.
Sadly, the pleasantries of a book store and a beach were background noise that got lost in the shuffle. Skip this book. I stuck it out due to my false loyalty to the author. It was a free Kindle download and you get what you pay for.
★☆☆☆☆ Awful but I read most or maybe even all of it
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