Review: A fun and flirty summer read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2013
I was given an ARC in exchange for an honest review.Having just spent a year in Africa completing her PhD studies, Darcy Trent is now spending a well-deserved vacation week on a Maryland beach with her best friend, Trina.  The plan for the week:  relax and revel in her recent accomplishment.  Well, plans do change, and Darcy's certainly do, in more ways than one.The phrase "opposites attract" is no truer than with Darcy and her best friend, Trina.  Trina is irrepressible, fun-loving, and a cockeyed optimist, but that's why Darcy loves her so much.  The charming chitchat between these two characters is absolutely delightful.  I also love their commitment to each other, despite their obvious differences.  Darcy is the sensible one - the orderly type.  She has a life plan, and she's set to follow it.  Trina views life through a completely different lens.  She's the I'll-do-this-job-as-long-as-it's-fun-and-then-I'll-find-another-one type.  In a way, she's everything Darcy isn't, and Darcy readily and accepts her friend's eccentricities, and I think even recognizes that they are partly why she loves Trina so much.  But Trina's incorrigibility can get her into some real fixes.  Thankfully, she has sensible Darcy as the voice of reason.  Not that Trina's prone to listen, mind you.Cooper Hudson is "that guy."  You know - the he's-too-perfect-to-be-real, ordinary kind of guy.  Sparks fly immediately between Darcy and Coop, but trying to show a girl you've got "game" proves a bit challenging when you're the only boy among five doting (and somewhat meddling) sisters.  He seems to take it all with a happy dose of good humor, and I immediately loved him for that, and, I think so does Darcy.  The relaxed, easy banter between Coop and Darcy is endearing and refreshing.  Oh, there's definitely sexual attention - and plenty of it - but the budding romance just has an easy way about it that makes for an enjoyable story.Grab this book and a blanket and head to the beach!  I think I read the whole thing with a silly smile on my face.  The characters are delightful.  The story line is somewhat predictable, but still managed to surprise me more than once.  "Love At High Tide" has all the earmarks of a fun and flirty summer read.