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door Susan Wiggs

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Reeksen: The Lakeshore Chronicles (3)

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With her daughter grown and flown, Nina Romano is ready to embark on a new adventure. She's waited a long time for dating, travel and chasing dreams. But just as she's beginning to enjoy being on her own, she finds herself falling for Greg Bellamy, owner of the charming Inn at Willow Lake and a single father with two kids of his own.

Greg lost his first marriage to a demanding career. Now he's determined to make a new start before it's too late. Juggling work, raising his young son and helping his nearly grown daughter face life's ultimate challenge, he has no time to fall in love. Still, with Nina Romano, love feels just right this time around.

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There was so much mess in this book I don't even know how to unpack it. I finally DNFed it at page 120 because I could not deal with the rising and falling of my blood pressure.

This is book #3 in the Lakeshore Chronicles series. I grabbed it at the library because I previously had read a book by Wiggs before (The Apple Orchard) that didn't work for me at every level, but I still wanted to try another book of hers. This book started out with an interesting premise that went all to hell the further I read.

Told in the third person we have the heroine (Nina Romano) and hero (Greg Bellamy) who both now live at Willow Lake. We find out that Nina was born and raised in Willow Lake. Greg it seems was from out of town and visited randomly during the summers when he was a teenager. Nina has plans to buy the Inn at Willow Lake and is surprised to return home from vacation to find out that the bank sold it to Greg Bellamy along with her contract to manage the place.

That was the first time my blood pressure rose. I deal with people misreading contracts and grant agreements all of the time. You can't as a bank sell a contract to someone when someone else had a different agreement in place. And you sure as heck can't sell part of a contract to someone else when the terms changed. I just literally hated every time this came up in the story because I wanted to yell this is not how that works.

So now that Greg owns Willow Lake the bank has sold the management side to him as well that Nina signed on to do (FFS). So now Greg needs Nina to agree to come work for him. Well actually he doesn't because he has a signed contract with means he could freaking sue Nina (though this whole contract thing is BS) if she failed to agree to work for him.

So for the parts of the book I read is Greg needing Nina to work for him since he doesn't know how to run an inn. Let's not even get into why the hell did Greg buy something he knows nothing about (instant #1 of Greg not being that smart).

I really really really despised the character Nina.

I don't know what else to say about her besides that. We get to see her as an adult and as a teenager and I really disliked her until I quit the novel. We first get to know Nina by hearing about how she was the mayor of the town before some big scandal which is not touched upon (I assume it was touched upon in earlier books, and I am not a great fan of hitting up previous plot points from prior books so that was okay by me) and now she is finally realizing her dream to own and operate the Inn at Willow Lake. I don't really get why Nina wants to do this at all. Nothing about her screams domestic at all. She is lonely since her daughter Sonnet (seriously) has left to spend the summer with her father and his family overseas. Nina has some jealously towards him and his perfect life. It is heavily implied that Sonnet's father is a dog and wasn't there for her like he was for her other kids. When Nina is told about the inn being sold out from under her she reacts like an asshole and pushes the assistant bank manager she was on a date with into the water. FYI, he can't swim. So Nina and Greg both act like jerks about this and actually laugh at the guy while he is sitting there almost freezing to death.

Now let me jump into teen Nina and I explain why I disliked her. She goes to camp for the summer and spies Greg Bellamy and decides she wants him. She is more developed than girls her age (which is 14) and so she flirts and makes him think she is of age (I am shaking my head right now). Someone quickly spills the beans on Nina and Greg is rightfully upset because she's underage. Well Nina then goes to a party at the country club welcoming in West Point's newest cadets and there she meets Sonnet's father, Lawrence (first time his name is used by the way). She drinks, he drinks, she is attracted to him, he is attracted to her, they have sex and both are happy about it and then Greg comes along and seems them post coitus and beats up Lawrence because he had to have taken advantage of her. I mean even Greg registers that she looks happy and so does he and so he knows that this wasn't rape. Instead we have a white teen beating up a black teen and yelling at him to go inside and threatening him because he deflowered a white teen who is an asshole for not telling what her real age is. The whole scene made me sick to my stomach and I was pretty much done after that.

Greg is a jerk and seems to all of a sudden out of nowhere become obsessed with Nina. He hates that she seems to know every guy in town (he says this a lot to himself) and because of how things worked out between them with regards to buying the Inn he knows he can't make it work without her. Which goes back to him not being smart, why buy something before you know if the person you want to work for you will actually work for you. There is some lip service paid to his kids and his ex and I didn't care.

The writing didn't grab me at all. I was looking forward to Ms. Wiggs tackling some huge issues like racism or what Nina went through raising a biracial child and what sort of prejudices did she have to overcome while doing that. That is not touched upon at all. I know this is a contemporary romance read, but let's not pretend racism just doesn't exist in romance books. And let me say again, I hate how the book portrayed Sonnet's father as not being there enough for her when we find out that Nina lied to Lawrence and could have caused him a lot of problems if people found out what happened between them. He was also 18 years old I would guess and what was he supposed to do? How dare he move on from that and find a grown woman to love (and not deceive him) to have two daughters with. How dare he be successful. That's what I meant about how the book was causing me to feel uncomfortable at times with how things were portrayed.

The flow of the book was not that great. It started and stopped in fits too many times. I hated the fact that Ms. Wiggs took the book back to when Nina was 14 (turned 15) and Greg was 18. It ended up making me dislike the two of them like hell. We went from present, back to past hung out there for a while and back to present. I wish we had started from the past and worked our way forward. I hated having to wait to page 100 to finally figure out how Nina got pregnant and how she first met Greg.

The setting of Willow Lake didn't really work for me. There were some chapter breaks describing the Inn at Willow Lake that made me roll my eyes too much. The book was trying to push the King Arthur and Guinevere angle too much. ( )
  ObsidianBlue | Jul 1, 2020 |
I like the themes in this series of missed connections, overcoming youthful decisions, and second chances. My biggest issue with this OTP is the lack of direct communication at times. Nina does not tell Greg about her dreams. I'm not a big fan of conflict through omission, and Nina going back and forth from strong to pathetic in her own mind was off-putting at times. I do like how the eventual relationship gets going, and the ending definitely leaves you wanting more -- for other characters. Looking forward to the next book now. ( )
  ladypembroke | May 17, 2019 |
Pure Pleasure: It really was a pleasure to read another book by Susan Wiggs' Lakeshore Chronicles. She doesn't forget the previous people from the other novels and how she weaves the stories all together is really a wonderful read.
  lonepalm | Feb 5, 2014 |
very enjoyable I love this series ( )
  emmaline09 | May 11, 2012 |
Nina Romano a single mother whose daughter Sonnet is out of the country for the summer. So that means that Nina could finally go after her dreams of owning and running the inn at willow lake. Greg has bought the inn and moved in with his son Max and pregnant daughter Daisy. Another good book in the series. ( )
  honeydew69862004 | Feb 25, 2011 |
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With her daughter grown and flown, Nina Romano is ready to embark on a new adventure. She's waited a long time for dating, travel and chasing dreams. But just as she's beginning to enjoy being on her own, she finds herself falling for Greg Bellamy, owner of the charming Inn at Willow Lake and a single father with two kids of his own.

Greg lost his first marriage to a demanding career. Now he's determined to make a new start before it's too late. Juggling work, raising his young son and helping his nearly grown daughter face life's ultimate challenge, he has no time to fall in love. Still, with Nina Romano, love feels just right this time around.

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