Reviews - Summer at the Cornish Cafe

44 reviews for:

Summer at the Cornish Cafe

Phillipa Ashley

3.56 AVERAGE

yie_forax's review

4.75

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

moonylea's review against another edition

3.0

emotional lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

beckee's review

4.0

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

setaian's review

4.0

Summer at the Cornish Café is fairly typical women's fiction. It's good, it's entertaining and I loved the characters –– it's just not particularly surprising.

All in all a great way to kill some time. The one negative is the narration. They narrator doesn't offer any differentiation between the two main characters and it gets a bit confusing from time to time.

marceelf's review

http://www.anurseandabook.com/2016/06/summer-at-cornish-cafe-by-phillipa.html

Quick, cute little read. Demi is kind of a sad sack - homeless, soon jobless and no family that cares about her. Add in a large dog and you find her sleeping in the streets.

She lands a job with Cal Penwith, who is recently returned from what sounds like war, although is described as a humanitarian trip (we never really do find out what happened to him there, although it's frequently referred to as part of his brooding and drinking).

Cal is ready to make his family's campground great again, and is willing to send Demi to college courses on hospitality if she would like - this must be different in England vs. America - because it didn't seem like cost was an issue, but then money worries are referred to elsewhere.

The token town meanie, Mawgan, is there to try to prevent the park from opening, and the token beautiful ex-girlfriend is also there - although she seems like a genuinely nice person.

In between all of this, are Cal and Demi doing manual labor and dreaming big of making the park shine. Of course they fall in love, and have some misunderstandings along the way. That's what makes it chick lit.

What made it a little different is the homelessness, Cal's budding alcoholism, and the lack of what seemed to be genuine caring for Demi on Cal's part. He was a known ladies man, and seemed okay with that. Which didn't make me root for them to finally fall together.

In the description, it talks about Demi's "reputation as an up and coming cafe owner" - spoiler alert, her cafe never opened in this book. But it's part of a trilogy, so maybe there will be more answers in the future.