Susan Howard

I won’t take the time to include a synopsis of this book as there are many available. This review does include some spoilers. Overall I wasn’t terribly impressed with this book. There were some charming things, such as the interactions Addie had at the beach with the Connally boys and parents, but her relationship with her aunt and uncle was basically an aside. Especially at the end when Addie rushes back to America to be with her aunt who is grieving the loss of her husband, and Addie is there one night and then little is said of the aunt again. The timeline or sequence of events in the story also bothered me at times. Things that Addie describes as having been “so long ago” were actually very recent. The secret Mrs. Connolly reveals to Addie at the end, the daughter she had and gave up did not fit in time wise at all since Mrs. Connolly says the daughter would be about Addie’s age. That places her as being younger than Mrs. Connally’s oldest son. After all the pining Addie did for Charlie, I wasn’t actually surprised that she ended up with Liam since it was obvious that he loved her from the start. I was disappointed that the author gave Addie and Charlie sleeping together one night before she, in a relatively short period of time, goes back to America and finds her true love with Liam. I was, however, pleasantly surprised that Addie’s life wasn’t further complicated by the very overused one-night-stand pregnancy plot line. Kudos to Jenoff on that.