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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
Before: I looooove the Summerhouse books (especially the first one). I'm so excited for a new one! I had to buy it on Kindle right away and will most likely buy it in paperback when it comes out, to match the others. #BookNerdProblems :D
After: a little slow but once they went back it moved quickly. The first is still my favorite but this was good and fun.
After: a little slow but once they went back it moved quickly. The first is still my favorite but this was good and fun.
I enjoy the theme of these books. To potential change a regret. What a cool idea. I can't wait to read all the books in this series.
After struggling with getting into the book, it was a much better story. I’m glad I didn’t give up but it was close!
I really was expecting the story to dive more into the relationship between Olivia, Kathy and Elise, but it really focuses on their individual lives more. Wasn’t expecting the time travel part of the storyline either and I’m not sure how I feel about it. Overall, not my favorite book.
This was a nice enjoyable read, but 10 years between books, was a little hard to remember Summerhouse #2. Luckily having read #2 is not a requirement, this is almost a stand alone book.
This should be a movie
Loved the summer house series overall ,I do wish there were more books...and this book in particular I enjoyed. It touched on a lot of common problems people grow through and over just great perspective. You really see the personality in the girls decisions they make the 2nd time around. Jude Deveroux is quickly becoming a staple in my library.
Loved the summer house series overall ,I do wish there were more books...and this book in particular I enjoyed. It touched on a lot of common problems people grow through and over just great perspective. You really see the personality in the girls decisions they make the 2nd time around. Jude Deveroux is quickly becoming a staple in my library.
Jude Deveraux’ books are my guilty pleasures. And her Summerhouse series are the cherries on top of the cake. ‘As You Wish’ is the latest in this series and it might be the best.
I have been playing catch-up with books that I read during my house renovation that I just didn't have the energy to post reviews about. When one has plaster and dust all over them you tend to just want to go to bed and put blankets over your head (at least I did). Getting my floors, walls, and ceilings back helped return me back to a semi-normal state. When the kitchen gets started I won't know what to do with myself.
Back to my review though. I should have known better than to buy this in hardcover. I really enjoyed the first book in the series, even though I found problems with it. Did not really like the second one, and this one was a wash too. Deveraux tries to hard to connect all of the books/characters into this one and making it that one woman needs to choose a different destiny/future in order for the Summerhouse phenomenon (as I call it) to continue.
The characters in this one did not grab me at all. We had one characters story just pretty much equal, she needed an aggressive man to help her find her sexuality (yes seriously) and another one just needed to embrace love. I don't know. The whole book just jumped around too much for me to like it much. I really have to stop reading time travel books, they end up irking me mostly.
The three characters we first meet are Olivia, Elise, and Kathy's husband, Ray. Olivia is asked to help Elise and Ray get settled after their therapist is held up. Elise wants Olivia to stay since she is not in the mood to be alone with Ray and Ray doesn't want Elise hitting on him. Yeah that mess happened.
Not too much to say about Ray except I disliked him. He is also referred to as a thug a few times by Olivia and Elise and that he is aping to be white collar though he's really blue collar through and through. No, Ray isn't black so I don't know what the heck was going on there. Also how about we not call people thugs that don't come from privileged backgrounds cause it says more about you than it does them.
Eventually we get Olivia, Elise, and Ray's wife Kathy all together. We find out fairly early on that Ray is having an affair and wants to leave Kathy and he doesn't feel any chemistry with Kathy. However, we also realize that Kathy does everything for Ray so that makes him sexist? I don't know. This book had too many plot lines.
Olivia is newly married to someone she loved when she was younger. It's a second marriage for them both and Olivia is hiding a horrible secret (guess what it is) and resentful of her first husband and his having a whole second family.
Elise's husband locked her up cause you know he's in love with someone else and they tried to poison her.
All of the stories deal with women who got with the wrong men and the men cheated on them in some way. Not very appealing for a romance book.
It takes way too long for the time travel aspect to even get going and Deveraux per usual just shows us two women's story-line in the past, and has the third one come back to the present and tell the other two. I booed the whole thing cause it really came down to the women just choosing different men. At least in book one it really dealt with two out of the three women just deciding things for themselves. We had Leslie keeping her same past and choosing a different present and Madison forcing herself to go forward with being a model instead of returning home to her high school love.
And also these three women just forgive the trash men in their lives who did crap to them in the past, but it doesn't matter since nothing came to past and I don't know I just threw my hands up in the air and let it go.
The long time readers will get a kick out of seeing the Montgomery family again though.
Back to my review though. I should have known better than to buy this in hardcover. I really enjoyed the first book in the series, even though I found problems with it. Did not really like the second one, and this one was a wash too. Deveraux tries to hard to connect all of the books/characters into this one and making it that one woman needs to choose a different destiny/future in order for the Summerhouse phenomenon (as I call it) to continue.
The characters in this one did not grab me at all. We had one characters story just pretty much equal, she needed an aggressive man to help her find her sexuality (yes seriously) and another one just needed to embrace love. I don't know. The whole book just jumped around too much for me to like it much. I really have to stop reading time travel books, they end up irking me mostly.
The three characters we first meet are Olivia, Elise, and Kathy's husband, Ray. Olivia is asked to help Elise and Ray get settled after their therapist is held up. Elise wants Olivia to stay since she is not in the mood to be alone with Ray and Ray doesn't want Elise hitting on him. Yeah that mess happened.
Not too much to say about Ray except I disliked him. He is also referred to as a thug a few times by Olivia and Elise and that he is aping to be white collar though he's really blue collar through and through. No, Ray isn't black so I don't know what the heck was going on there. Also how about we not call people thugs that don't come from privileged backgrounds cause it says more about you than it does them.
Eventually we get Olivia, Elise, and Ray's wife Kathy all together. We find out fairly early on that Ray is having an affair and wants to leave Kathy and he doesn't feel any chemistry with Kathy. However, we also realize that Kathy does everything for Ray so that makes him sexist? I don't know. This book had too many plot lines.
Olivia is newly married to someone she loved when she was younger. It's a second marriage for them both and Olivia is hiding a horrible secret (guess what it is) and resentful of her first husband and his having a whole second family.
Elise's husband locked her up cause you know he's in love with someone else and they tried to poison her.
All of the stories deal with women who got with the wrong men and the men cheated on them in some way. Not very appealing for a romance book.
It takes way too long for the time travel aspect to even get going and Deveraux per usual just shows us two women's story-line in the past, and has the third one come back to the present and tell the other two. I booed the whole thing cause it really came down to the women just choosing different men. At least in book one it really dealt with two out of the three women just deciding things for themselves. We had Leslie keeping her same past and choosing a different present and Madison forcing herself to go forward with being a model instead of returning home to her high school love.
And also these three women just forgive the trash men in their lives who did crap to them in the past, but it doesn't matter since nothing came to past and I don't know I just threw my hands up in the air and let it go.
The long time readers will get a kick out of seeing the Montgomery family again though.