A homophobic grandmother’s harsh unacceptance of Avery Greene’s
sexuality introduces bitterness into Avery despite Avery’s mom’s complete acceptance
and support. When her grandmother passes, in the process of helping clear out
the house Avery comes across letters – love letters – spanning decades from a
lady to her grandmother. With only an address, which turns out to be a B&B,
Sea Springs Inn, in North Carolina, Avery is pushed by her BFF to
find the letter-writer and unearth more about her grandmom. When she reaches
there, Avery finds that Sea Spings Inn is being run by one utterly gorgeous
Olivia, the grand-daughter of the letter-writer. While she is unable to discuss
the real reason of her visit, Avery is equally incapable of resisting the
awesomeness that is Olivia.
We wanted to like this book much more than we did especially
because Olivia absolutely dazzles. The simmering chemistry between the MCs.
Olivia’s flirting and her persona. The build-up of the attraction. The great
sex scenes. Everything made us want to like the book way more. But…Avery is the
downer. Where Olivia is fun, intelligent, honest and open; Avery is closed,
secretive, rather self-absorbed and not very likeable. Then there is Avery’s
BFF who though has a much smaller role, is intensely dislikeable. So all of
Olivia’s awesomeness is offset and diminished by Avery.
In fact, though the MCs get together in the end, we do not
see this relationship lasting too long. Olivia is just way, way better and
outclasses Avery by light years.
However, despite our unhappiness with the matching up of
these two characters, the book is immensely readable. We were also rather touched by the grandmother's story. So quite a few plusses there.
⭐⭐⭐☆
