“Hannah Kent and Oliver Jennings pledged their hearts to each other as children. Now, years later, Hannah is thrilled to receive an invitation to spend the summer at Oliver’s family’s country estate. The path to wedded bliss is clear—so long as Oliver’s highbrow older brother, Damon, has ceased his juvenile antics, Hannah’s future looks bright indeed.
But from the moment Hannah arrives at Summerhaven, nothing is as she expected. Oliver seems disinterested in renewing their acquaintance, and Damon is not the brutish boy she remembers but a man intent on avoiding marriage. Although she has loathed Damon her whole life, when he contrives a ruse designed to win them both what they desire, Hannah warily agrees. All she has to do to reclaim Oliver’s attention is pretend to be madly in love with Damon. But when Damon is surprisingly convincing in his role as a suitor, it proves difficult to discern the line between pretense and true love.“
I really enjoyed reading Summerhaven, and I was truly impressed with Tiffany’s writing. I felt like Tiffany did an amazing job with both Damon and Oliver. Their character progression, or digression as the case may be, was really well done.
The first person narrative was necessary for that to have been as successful as it was. We got to see both brothers only through Hannah’s eyes. The reader’s understanding grew as Hannah’s memories shifted and grew, and those revelations were brilliantly done.
With that, I felt like Hannah should have shifted and grew from her experiences along with us. However I found her to be frequently making decisions that didn’t make sense. It almost felt like her character integrity was sacrificed for the sake of the plot.
The story was really cute and I was wholly invested in the brothers. I can’t wait to see where the author goes with Oliver in her next book. I just couldn’t get one hundred percent behind Hannah’s character development.
*** 1/2 Low Language, Low Romance, Low Violence, Low Religion
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1. Blog Tour Schedule:
Mon. Feb. 21 Heidi Bleggi (Holly’s Book Corner), Rorie and Andrea (Literary Timeout), Leslie Grawrock (Books and Socks Rocks)
Tues. Feb. 22 Crystal Job (Books are Sanity), Mattie Eddy (Honeycomb Stories), Heidi Grange (LDS and Loving It),
Wed. Feb. 23 Sandra Meaders (Life Is What It’s Called), Cathy Jeppsen (My Book a Day),
Thurs. Feb. 24 That’s Us! (Book Confessions), Colleen Lynch (Timeless Novels), Lisa Faber (Bookworm Lisa), Heidi Robbins (Heidi reads)
Fri. Feb. 25 Tia (Books and Everyday Life), Sheila Staley (Why Not Because I Said So)
Sat. Feb. 26 Emily Flynn, Meagan (Blooming with Books), Patti Stephenson (She Lives to Read)