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Summerlong by Dean Bakopoulos

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heylook's review

2.0

Not terrible, but the author can't decide on what style this novel is supposed to be. Tragic? Comedic? It's one of those unhappy-marriage dramas in which the marrieds both seek to find themselves, blah blah blah. None of the characters are remotely likeable, and I spent the whole book going "Just make a decision, already!" to the characters and to the author himself.

mcearl12's review

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3.0

It's well written, some great parts, but overall a bit of a slog to finish.

johndiconsiglio's review

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2.0

A long hot summer of suburban sex, simmering regret & yearnings for youth. That can be fun—if you’re Tennessee Williams. But here we’re in 30-something, frustrated intellectuals, teetering marriage territory. Dad is a stunted real estate agent tempted by a doomed young beauty. Mom is a blocked writer who picks up a freewheeling boy toy. Their bed-hopping leads to some amusing adults-gone-wild, summer flings. But gets silly when it tries to swim in the deep end. The Stones said it best: What a drag it is getting old.

jbarr5's review

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3.0

Summerlong by Dean Bakopoulos
This book starts out with a married couple, two kids and they are nearing 40 and some changes are coming to each of them.
One night he gets up and walks out to find a woman lying in the grass and ends up waking up next to her in the morning. She has taken a run she knows he's home in the basement watching TV, he'd be there for the kids if they should waken.
She ends up having a few beers with a younger man. Iowa is where they live. Don works at a real estate agency. The cops find them both and deliver them home along with a foreclosure notice and their kids with a cop on the lawn wrapped in blankets.
Neither of them explain where they had been and doing-it's just a fantasy, now back to real life. Claire is an author but only has one book under her belt.
We learn of their other relationships and what is going through their minds...
Stories go back in time before they met, during their dating years and up to date present time spent with others.
Lives of all involved intertwine and loved hearing of the northern woods vacation...but will they have a chance at forever love?
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).

librostace's review

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I follow Dean Bakopoulos on social and find him amusing. He is generationally very relatable to me. There was too much pizza and beer in this novel. That's all, no more comments.