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A review by ifyouhappentoremember
A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
3.0
For me, my love of Beatriz Williams books stems from the delightful mix of drama and Hallmark Channel approved schmaltz wrapped up in a historical setting.
A Hundred Summers has all the well loved, Williams-approved tropes: family drama, the leading lady pining over her love and the romantic interest being an honorable, dashing gentleman. However, I found it to be on the side of too schmaltzy and the drama boarding on the side of being dumb (the family ‘secrets’ in this book..... I think it’s too generous to call them secrets. They’re rather more like acknowledged obvious truths). I also thought that everything ended a little too neatly and conveniently.
Even this physical manifestation of a ‘meh’ book is not going to stop me from reading the rest of her back catalogue.
A Hundred Summers has all the well loved, Williams-approved tropes: family drama, the leading lady pining over her love and the romantic interest being an honorable, dashing gentleman. However, I found it to be on the side of too schmaltzy and the drama boarding on the side of being dumb (the family ‘secrets’ in this book..... I think it’s too generous to call them secrets. They’re rather more like acknowledged obvious truths). I also thought that everything ended a little too neatly and conveniently.
Even this physical manifestation of a ‘meh’ book is not going to stop me from reading the rest of her back catalogue.