Review: Reads Like Someone's Journal
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2012
This book has a good premise. A woman moves back to her home town with her young son to run the hotel she inherited. Returning is bittersweet and a lot happens, good and bad. It was a pretty good story, I just had trouble getting into it. The writing style was different in that I felt like I was reading someone's diary more so than being immersed in a story. It is told from the main character, Meredith's point of view and I just felt there was too much "I did this, they did that...I said this, they said that". I also felt her main love interest was very one dimensional. Perhaps because we only hear her point of view. They immediately reconnect shortly after her return, which is fine. But then he is in and out of the picture for months at a time and she continues to wait for him because he is the love of her life. Granted, she is busy and has other bigger things going on in her life, but I just found it frustrating that each time they reconnected, she just accepted him back. There is one particular thing that he handled really poorly that bugged me. Without giving too much away, I just couldn't believe he stayed out of touch for so long, no matter what was going on in his life. It seemed inexcusable to me. Overall, this one was just okay for me.