LBGTQ book

Two young women discover they are half sisters after checking with DNA service. They travel to meet their mutual grandmother and discover that their father was estranged from her after he discovered her in an affair with his love interest.

The storyline was strange and the characters were not likable. Wasted a credit.

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Summer chick lit beach read at its finest!

Well written and pleasant narration....I liked all the characters and story lines. Kept me listening to the very end. I'm hoping there's a sequel!

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Great light easy read

I liked this book a lot. It was easy to listen to and not too sappy or heavy but just kept you interested. Great beach read.

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Take This One To The Beach

As we all get more involved with instant communications, it gets harder for authors to get a good conflict going in a contemporary setting since theoretically, any character could get in touch with or find another person/character at just about any time. This book deals with a lot of travel and long distances -- both emotionally and geographically -- so Jamie Brenner could have easily dropped the tension in several plot lines by just giving into a Skype scene or a mobile phone ringing. But she doesn't and the book works.

So I give Jamie Brenner kudos for getting a good plot going. (And for incorporating into the plot and believably utilizing tech contrivances, for that matter.) She also outlines very real characters.

The novel uses intrigues involving genetics and ancestry and what a "family" can be, depending on your definition.. not a new idea but this story is well fleshed out.

A GREAT beach read. Not too heavy and has several layers of romance to keep you going.

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Author clearly has never spent time ON CAPE COD

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I wish when authors write about cape cod and the towns on cape cod that they actually spend time here to know how to speak.
1. Cape Cod is NOT AN ISLAND.
2. Provincetown is NOT an island
3. You go to the cape or you are on the cape NOT IN CAPE COD
4. "Fran turned right around from cape cod and headed back to province town". SERIOUSLY Look at a map. P-town is a town ON CAPE COD PART OF CAPE COD - Maybe she turned around from Chatham or Hyannis or even Falmouth ... that would have been correct !!

5. At least ( I'm 99% sure) the narrator didn't have to say the word scallop !!!! Didn't have to hear that word butchered!

Story was enjoyable other than every time they spoke of the "island" I cringed.

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Not so great.

I found it hard to get into this book even as light bedtime reading. Characters were flat

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The narrator made it something special

I listened / read this book with Whispersync, and it was the excellent narration that made this rather predictable chick lit worth the listen. Amy McFadden was great ! The story and characters, as indicted, are fairly standard chick lit fare, but, het, sometimes that's not a bad thing. This is a good book when you're in the mood for family drama with a garenteed HEA.

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Very enjoyable read about love, family and the difficulties that come along the way.

I usually don’t write reviews, but I really wanted to after listening to this book. The story continued along nicely and was very relatable. I enjoyed the characters and the plot of the story along with the ending. This was my first by this author and I look forward to more.

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sweet and a little predictable

Yes, there were a few surprises, but it was pure escape. just what I wanted.

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Love her!

I loved it! I can not wait to read the next book of hers. This was my 3rd!