allthebooksaremine 's review for:

Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

3.0

emotional lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I enjoyed this more than the other stories but I do hope this author eventually breaks out of her comfort zone. It felt very familiar and was fairly predictable. The imagery was beautiful though and being from Toronto and originally from a small town I appreciated how the setting was captured. This is definitely one of her strongest written books. 

This was almost a four star read and could have been a five star but for two things. 

• The author has a habit of dropping people of colour into her books but not really giving them any depth. I don’t consider that diversity but tokenism and it’s annoying. I always remove a star for lack of diversity because it’s not that hard. It’s a deliberate choice to focus on one group of people and it gets old really fast.
• The MMC was a walking red flag. I’m sorry but this wouldn’t have been an HEA for me (well mot for him anyway!). I would have left him in the dust. Showing up on his doorstep? Now way. Maybe I’m too much of a hard ass but I would NEVER trust him again. It ended sweetly but I couldn’t get past his terrible and selfish decision making. Will was right about one thing, he is not relationship material!

I was also really not a fan of the narrator. It’s always the same narrator and she literally sounds like a teenager. It worked for some of the books, but not for this one or the one based in PEI.