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Nine years ago Mara Jameson vanished. She was pregnant at the time and she became a sad statistic--missing. Now, nine years later Lily Malone and her daughter Rose are making a life for themselves in a small coastal town in Canada. Lily has formed a close bond with several women who meet at her needlework shop. Rose has met a new friend and her mother seems very reserved and secretive. When Rose's chronic health problem requires her to have surgery, the whole town steps in to help--especially Li...
3.5 stars. Didn't know it had a 2nd book to it.
Leila Jamieson went missing years ago but Mark Murphy, a now retired police detective is still searching for her. Leila's grandmother, Maeve continues to mourn the loss of her granddaughter.Lily Malone owns a needlework shop in Nova Scotia, Her 9 year daughter, Rose was born with heart defects and has to undergo regularly scheduled operations in order to survive. Rose has befriended a new girl in town, Jessica. When Rose must undergo another operation, Jessica comes up with a fund-raising idea.T...
I wish I could give this book a five. The writing was great. There were three stories moving simultaneously and I couldn't exactly figure out how they would come together. It was wonderful! Except the end was just not right. It felt like the author had reached her maximum limit of pages and had to wrap up the story immediately. After all that it took to get to the end it was painfully clipped. I can't recommend this book because of it, but the story is great!
Not worth the time to review
4 STARS""On the first day of summer, Mara Jameson went out to water her garden-and was never seen again. Years after her disappearance, no one could forget the expectant mother whose glowing smile had captured the heart of everyone who'd known her: Maeve Jameson, still mourning the loss of a granddaughter she had struggled to protect...Patrick Murphy, a dogged police detective obsessed with a vanished woman...and Lily Malone, drawn to the rugged beauty of the Nova Scotia coast and its promise of...
This was my first Luanne Rice book, but it certainly will not be my last. I have already gone to the library and took out the book that joins this - called Summer of Roses.I loved this book so much that I went to my computer and looked up everything about Nova Scotia. Luanne Rice writes about people and places like they are real and you don't want the book to end. I want to go to Nova Scotia now and go on a whale watching cruise and learn everything about whales. This book explores so many compl...
The ending was a major disappointment to me. I was not in this bad of a relationship but enough to really empathize. There was no finish to this story, I needed it to have an ending, a resolution. I actually feel sick to my stomach with this hanging ending.
I really liked this book...right up until the end. The end made me feel angry because it seems like a few more chapters are just missing. It wasn't even a clever ending that made you wonder about the possibilities in a creative, fun way. It just stopped. It was just an incomplete story. What happened to the grandmother and did Lily get to her in time? Where did Marissa & Jessica end up? What happened to the beluga? And was Edward ever made to pay for his crimes? So many questions left at the end...
WOW--how could I have Missed this author in all my time of readings. Wonderful story line-great characters and settings. The stories of women who have left all behind to seek refuge from abuse. In hiding they somehow find each other and form a band to protect each other and the little 9 yr old girl who was born with a heart defect. I was sad when the story ended with too many things still up in the air. Then I noticed that the story would be continued in her follow up book "Summer of Roses"--I'l...
Luanne Rice never failed to impress me yet. Even though this book was "spoiled" when I was reading this because I already knew the twist because I first bought Summer of Roses before this, not knowing that Summer of Roses is the sequel to Summer's Child.I really like it, and I like Edward Hunter's character.LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE! ♥
Eh...
I liked this book. I really did...mostly. 'Summer's Child' by Luanne Rice was an interesting fast read. While I would initially classify the novel as chick lit it also had a touch of intrigue and a touch of romance. Set it present day Canada in Cape Hawk, the end of the earth, Lily and her daughter Rose have made their lives there. As Marissa and her daughter Jennifer arrive things are changing for Rose as she anticipates a major surgery for her heart defects. Marissa and Jennifer are on the run...
Summer Child by Luanne RiceThis is the first story of Mara Jameson. She had gotten married and was pregnant. Then she just disappeared and years later no one had heard of her again.Patrick Murphy is the retired state police detective who is intrigued by the reports of Maya and tries to track her down by clues left.Her parents are dead and she had lived with her grandmother, Mauve. Mauve's best friend, Clara grew up together in the seaside town of Hubbard's Point.At Cape Hawk Rose plays with Jess...
This book was not anything special; however, the events that join the main characters gave me chills.
I'm giving this 3 stars even though I don't think I liked it. If you like sappy stories about a large group of perfect women doing nice things for each other, with a man involved for romance, then this is not a bad book. If you like your fiction to be a based a little more in reality, then this book won't do. Also, it didn't have an ending, we don't know what happened. I guess we're supposed to think they all lived happily ever after. Blah.
i just finished reading Summer’s Child by Luanne Rice… which is a bit weird because i’ve already read the sequel of this book last year… i recently found this book when the girls and i went to Booksale in MOA (by girls, i meant my girlfriends)..it was good thing, though, that i already know how the short series would end.. that made it easier for me to put down the book every night so that i could get at least 4 hours of sleep before work..ms. rice’s works never fail to amaze me.. each book has
I acquired this paperback several years ago and have held on to it and have read it several times. The author tackles the serious issue of spousal abuse in the non-physical form. I have a friend whose husband abused her in this way for over 13 years before she finally got away. It was 13 years of hell for her-- that she privately lived. Her story is very similar to Lily's story, so I felt the author did a great job portraying the reality of that kind of abuse.There are 3 story-lines in this book...
3 1/2 stars - Let me preface this by saying I usually do not pick a book with the themes contained in this story. However I found it to be a very enjoyable and engaging read, and easy to lose track of time while reading and to get lost in the story. Some of the themes contained inside are abuse, as well as healing from it, loss, and having someone you love affected by a medical condition (in this case a heart defect). I liked how it alternated sharing points of view from Lily, Rose, Maeve, Liam,...