A review by finallywakingup
The Summer Hideaway by Susan Wiggs

3.0

This book had a lot of promise and I really liked all the characters, however as it went on it got more and more rushed and in the end the whole thing was wrapped up in just a few short scenes. I haven't minded the flashback chapters in the previous books in this series but they really distracted and took away from the current stories in this one and totally stopped the flow, it would have been much more interesting for the past to come out in other ways, reliance on the flashback is getting dull.

I ended up wishing that these stories had been told separately somehow rather than rushed through and combined meaning both lost. After getting us to feel for George and be interested in him his demise ended up being a quick mention and I didn't find the relationship between Claire and Ross to be believable because it happened so fast and was based on so little...

Will keep reading them because I do like the writing, but this one left me feeling like it could have been a lot more than it ended up being.