Jill Morrow

Newport - Morrow
3 stars

This was perfect beach reading.( I even tried reading it at the beach, but I have to face it. I can take the dog, or I can take the book. I took the dog, and this became my ‘after the beach trip’ book.) It’s an English country house mystery shifted to a 1920’s upper class Rhode Island estate. There’s a bit of historical stage setting, but it’s not terribly important to the story. There’s something psychic going on, the possibility of fraud, the secrets of an old love story and the beginnings of a new one.The new romance is pleasant and limited to kisses, the old love story was a bit hotter, but nothing I would prevent a young teen from reading. It’s a fairly predictable mystery with a bit of an interesting plot twist. Beach reading, not memorable, but the pages turned easily and I enjoyed it.
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As I have mentioned before I like this time period. So any time I come across a book set in this time period I am drawn to check it out. While I thought the author did a good job of describing the setting, I just was not as drawn to the characters a 100%. In fact, I did not engage in the story until about a third of the way in. Then I was intrigued by the story but the romance between Bennett and Catherine was more of convenience then it was of love. Yet again as I stated if you take away everything that I did not like you are left with a pretty good book. There was enough things I did like that I would read another book by this author.… (meer)