Monday 22 February 2021

Book Review - Summer by the Lake by Mandy Baggot - #HolidayReading Malta

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Title: Summer by the Lake
Author: Mandy Baggot
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: Aria
Publication Date: 4th June 2020
Rating: 5 Stars

Going home has never been easy...
With her dad in hospital, Robyn Matthers needs to go home and take charge. But does she have the strength to do it?

Cole Ryan is on a personal mission. Tall, dark and handsome, Robyn has certainly noticed the brooding hockey player around town. But can she trust her feelings – or his? But she can't risk the past she's kept buried for so long coming out and he hasn't opened his heart for a long time.

Will the two of them be able to finally open up, and let themselves, just maybe, fall in love...

Previously published as Taking Charge.

Ice hockey players, need I say more, especially good looking, talented, sexy ice-hockey players!

And a determined woman, Robyn who is back in town after 9 years, to help her father out while he undergoes a bypass. 

Robyn has a taken no prisoners approach to revamping both the roadhouse and also the ice-hockey team her father, Eddie, coaches. 

I loved how Robyn was speaking to Eddie and his ward mate Max, in the hospital scenes.  She is determined that both men will improve!

And then there is Cole, incredibly intelligent, kind hearted and just there, from a chance meeting on the way to a plane, he is in Robyn's life. 

Neither of them want to date though for their own reasons and the reasons Robyn hasn't been back to her hometown in 9 year is traumatic. 

This is Mandy Baggot at her finest with characters you care about, a budding romance and a real sense of place.  I was rooting on the ice-hockey team, and loved seeing the changes in the Roadhouse. 

A delightful and enjoyable story to read. 

Thank you to Aria and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 

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