Carol S. (waucondacarol) reviewed That Summer Place: Old Things / Private Paradise / Island Time on + 319 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I like this sappy, romantic trio of stories that take place in the same summer vacation home on an island near Seattle over several years and involve three different couples. Each couple is unique. In "Private Paradise," a widow with a teenage son accidently ends up sharing the house with a divorced father of a rebellious pre-teen. The kids decide that their parents would make a perfect couple. In "Old Things," a single mom, workaholic divorcee of two girls rents the home to spend quality time with her two daughters and meets the guy she had a heavy crush on when she stayed at the house as a teen and he lived with his uncle. Thirty years later and still a bachelor, he is spending time at his late uncle's island home and lets her believe he is the island handyman instead of a high powered Seattle executive. In "Island Time," a staid widower is staying at the house while planning a new marina for the island and a quirky, Hispanic marine biologist is hired by his assistant to do the environmental study which will allow the plans for the marina to go ahead if she approves them. The young woman is broke, out of work, has two chihuahuas, a tangerine colored Volkswagon bug that barely makes it off the ferry before it breaks down, and loves spicy salsa music, food, skimpy outfits, and she finds her boss is not too bad either.
Lori N. (Lelopit) reviewed That Summer Place: Old Things / Private Paradise / Island Time on + 273 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Three excellent stories of a vacation home that wondeful things happen in.Great end of summer read!
This house and 3 seperate summers. It nice to see how everything gels together
This book was a light read. Unusual. 3 great authors!
This is an excellant 3 story book. It all takes place on a summer getaway island called Rainshadow lodge. It makes you wish that there was really such a place.
Gretchen T. -
Awsome!!!!
Erin M. (ErinMc) reviewed That Summer Place: Old Things / Private Paradise / Island Time on + 373 more book reviews
Three great stories of life love and the bumps no one tells you about.
Debbie C. (grannyc) -
3 good stories. Each a quick read.
Meg D. (MegD) - , reviewed That Summer Place: Old Things / Private Paradise / Island Time on + 27 more book reviews
excellent stories - Received it on Thursday, finished this morning Monday!! A good summer read!!
Mary Kay (mklmsw) reviewed That Summer Place: Old Things / Private Paradise / Island Time on + 15 more book reviews
A very good read - series of 3 stories in one book
Gail S. (gail7254) reviewed That Summer Place: Old Things / Private Paradise / Island Time on + 117 more book reviews
great read-wonderful for summer!
Leslie E. (psuelder) reviewed That Summer Place: Old Things / Private Paradise / Island Time on + 111 more book reviews
They were all short romances. Quick reads.
Della (Della322) -
It has 3 differant romance stories. They take place in an ol Victorian House.
People tend to fall in love, when they stay there. great stories.
People tend to fall in love, when they stay there. great stories.
Dominique Y. (NaughtyLittleMinx) reviewed That Summer Place: Old Things / Private Paradise / Island Time on + 103 more book reviews
Not only are the four tales extraordinary (linked together with the common thread of magic), each contains an element of enchantment. In Nora Roberts's "Ever After," the gift of an ancient pendant belonging to a fairy changes two lives forever. Jill Gregory's "Catch a Falling Star" finds a princess forced into a political marriage with a wife-murdering barbarian, while Ruth Ryan Langan's "The Curse of Castle Clough" offers a ghost who helps save a castle from the auction block and its owner from a life without love. Finally, a burned-out American tourist travels back in time to be rescued by--and to rescue--a handsome sailing captain in "Starry, Starry Night" by Marianne Willman
