Review: Great Beach Read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2014
Hokulani Kawelu’s family has received a foreclosure notice for their Kona Breezeway Inn. If they don’t find an investor soon, they will lose the inn and the sacred Hawaiian land it sits on. When the possible investor her brother finds comes to see the inn, he wants to make all kinds of changes. What will Hoku have to sacrifice to keep the inn in the family?James flies to Hawaii to check out the inn, in hopes it’s the property he can use to win a fierce competition with his brother. He’s determined to prove to his father he is as good a businessman as his older brother, David.But when he visits the family-owned inn, he finds it run-down and out-of-date—they don’t even use computers for check-ins! He has all kinds of ideas for modernizing the place, but will this property be the one to win the competition? And then there’s the alluring, dark-haired woman with the flower in her hair, who checks him in and dances the hula at the luau…and turns out to be one of the inn's owners!I thoroughly enjoyed this well-written story. The author’s descriptions of Hawaii made me feel as though I was there again. I wanted to keep reading to find out what happened to the characters and the inn. I hope to read more by Ms. Marilla!