This is where Lowell tucked in her nice love scene. After that there isn't much until the slap-dash ending where both characters quickly profess their love before exiting stage right. Amber Beach has a couple of major flaws. I hated all of the boating details. During the whole first half, Jake is teaching Honor how to drive Kyle's boat.
Every possible step is explained.
Again and again. In fact, I have never driven a boat, but I believe I could march down to a marina with a copy of Amber Beach in my hands and make a pretty good show of it. Every once in a while there is some purple prose interspersed with the boating detail, which helped keep me awake. I suppose it is also quite possible that you might love boats and find all the detail fascinating, but the non-expert boater will likely be bored. Another weak link is the character of Jake.