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for Songs of Summer
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Cheryl R. (Jeannette, PA)
Fire Island Revelries
This is a story about the journey of a woman, Maggie, who find out she is adopted. Maggie finds herself in the middle of a family drama that she's not sure she want to be a part of. You can feel her struggle wanting to know her birth mother while feeling that her adopted parents are her real parents. She also struggles between playing it safe in life or following her heart. It makes for a great summer read.
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Edie M. (Kennett Square, PA)
Right in tune
I really enjoyed this book. The characters all had great personality.
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Suzi S. (The Villages, FL)
Good Beach Read
The character Maggie was born interesting and frustrating; she runs a record store and has lots of knowledge about music that's woven into the story. But she's about 16 emotionally, so going through her potential relationships and reunion with her birth mother was a bit of a roller coaster. I was entertained but never surprised; when each new character appeared it was obvious how their story would evolve. This is a good read I've you just want to escape into others' lives for a bit but not a book I'll remember or discuss.
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Jan - Estes Park
Songs of Summer
Songs of Summer had ups and downs. My favorite part of the book was the incorporation of music, especially the song titles for each chapter. That would have made it a 10 for me if the story line had not become a young adult beach read. Just when I would start to get into the characters the 30 and 50 year olds would begin behaving like 18 year olds. Mama Mia is one of my favorite musicals, and this story was obviously trying to copy the gist of the story. Like most sequels, in my opinion, it fell far short.
A note for authors - please be very careful when using something very sensitive and personal such as adoption for the story line. As an adoptive parent I did not feel the author knew enough about all of the emotional struggles for the child, the adoptive parents, and the birth parents. The "welcomed with open arms" and "happily ever after" scenarios depicted in the book usually do not happen as easily as was portrayed.
All in all, this is a good light summer beach read - not something to be taken too seriously.
