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A review by octavia_cade
Barefoot Season by Susan Mallery
relaxing
medium-paced
3.0
A surprising number of people seem to have shelved this novel as romance. It isn't. That is to say, there's romance in it, but the primary relationship is between two estranged step-sisters, former best friends, who are slowly repairing their relationship over the course of a summer after a decade of not seeing each other. Both of them get involved with decent men, but those romances are very much subplots. Remove them from the novel and there wouldn't be that much of a difference in the overall storyline, so general fiction it is.
It's a very readable book. I gobbled it down in one sitting, and only part of that is because I'm procrastinating on the grant application I'm supposed to work on today. The characters are sympathetic, the prose is smooth, and the pacing's good - it's just an all-round easy read. There's nothing very surprising about it, but it's pleasant, with a happy ending, and fingers crossed that the library has the rest in the series because I've got more grant applications due than this one, and this is the perfect way to put them off. Also, I really like blackberries.
It's a very readable book. I gobbled it down in one sitting, and only part of that is because I'm procrastinating on the grant application I'm supposed to work on today. The characters are sympathetic, the prose is smooth, and the pacing's good - it's just an all-round easy read. There's nothing very surprising about it, but it's pleasant, with a happy ending, and fingers crossed that the library has the rest in the series because I've got more grant applications due than this one, and this is the perfect way to put them off. Also, I really like blackberries.