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The Bookstore on the Beach: A Novel (edición 2021)

por Brenda Novak (Autor)

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:"A page-turner with a deep heart."â??Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Summer
How do you start a new chapter of your life when you haven't closed the book on the previous one?
Eighteen months ago, Autumn Divac's husband went missing. Her desperate search has yielded no answers, and she can't imagine moving forward without him. But for the sake of their two teenage children, she has to try.
Autumn takes her kids home for the summer to the charming beachside town where she was raised. She seeks comfort working alongside her mother and aunt at their bookshop, only to learn that her daughter is facing a huge life change and her mother has been hiding a terrible secret for years. And when she runs into the boy who stole her heart in high school, old feelings start to bubble up again. Is she free to love him, or should she hold out hope for her husband's return? She can only trust her heart...and hope it won't lead her astr
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Título:The Bookstore on the Beach: A Novel
Autores:Brenda Novak (Autor)
Información:MIRA (2021), Edition: Original, 373 pages
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Two stars is described as "it was okay" and it was only "okay." Didn't finish because I couldn't get excited about it. The characters didn't grab me and they were making some really dumb decisions. I could feel a build-up for multiple (avoidable?) disasters.
Nope. Moving on to something else. ( )
  tackyj | Aug 3, 2023 |
I had a really hard time with this book. There was soooo much going on! kidnapping, rape, teen pregnancy, confused sexual orientation, missing husband, just to name a few! I honestly feel like some of this could have been scaled back. The title is very misleading as it didnt really have anything to do with the storyline lol ( )
  SRQlover | Jul 18, 2023 |
If you have any plans on reading this
Don’t read my review otherwise buckle up!

This book was not what I was hopping for. But so crazy, I had to share!!!
I wanted a nice light book, woman goes back to where she grew up and the bookstore that made her happy, and fell in love with a high school crush.
That happens but so does so does so much more!!!
Many other storylines none of which are thoroughly fleshed out and so this reader didn’t really care about any of them. Each storyline was a personal catastrophe.
Autumn whose husband has been missing, in maybe the Ukraine, for 18 months. Decides to visit mom (Molly) in some beach town and get away from Tampa for a couple of months for the summer. Autumn Falls for guy (Quinn)who took her virginity in high school. But doesn’t know what to do because she is married and wouldn’t hooking up with Quinn be a bad idea?
Quinn is divorced, his high school sweetheart wife is in jail for attempted murder for stabbing him because she thought he was cheating on her.
Quinn is helping at his parents restaurant because his mom is dying from breast cancer.
Autumn’s Teenage daughter, Taylor, is knocked up from a drunk one night stand with a boy whom her brother had a falling out with. She chose him to get back at her brother who seems to be dealing with his missing father, better than Taylor is.
Taylor now thinks she is maybe a lesbian. She bonded with a new girl she met on the beach over climate change and being vegetarian. Not that Taylor is a vegetarian but meat eating adds to man made climate change apparently, and while most teenagers are now as dumb as a bowl of Frosted Flakes they know the evils of climate change , but not so much about having sex and making babies.
Taylor’s lesbian love interest (Sierra) has an unstable family life her mom committed suicide when Sierra was 8 and now dad is an abusive drunk who isn’t happy his daughter is a lesbian.
Not far fetched enough well then
Molly (Autumn’s mom) has been hiding the truth from Autumn about who her father is. And a whole lot more! It turns out Molly was kidnapped as a teenager and held captive in a couples basement and repeatedly raped by the husband which is how Molly wound up with Autumn. Couple also had a daughter of their own. Autumn escaped, there was a trial and the couple went to prison, the rapist husband for life,and the wife for 30 years but of course she gets out, more on that in a minute. Molly (real name Bailey) doesn’t go back to living with her mom because mom is an alcoholic and drug addict so instead she moves to a small beach town in Virginia and gets a job in a bookstore where she meets Laurie and her husband Chris and these two join the lie and end to being Molly’s sister and brother-in-law. Eventually Molly and Laurie by the bookstore.
Woman who kidnapped Molly tricks Molly into believing she is actually the daughter, somehow hoping Molly can get the kidnapper mom, closer to her daughter for whatever reason.
Autumn is in town for less than a month before hooking up with her high school crush.
Autumn comes to stay with Molly for the summer after 18 months with no word from her husband and everything I have described comes out and then after Autumn decides she will move to the beach town live with Quinn and raise her daughters child so Taylor can go to college and be with her lesbian girlfriend Sierra….Nick (Autumns Husband) shows up.
What will Autumn do?
Go with her husband who she doesn’t love anymore?
Go with Quinn and the great sex?
Raise Taylor’s Kid?
Become friends with the rapist couples actual daughter because Molly has rekindled the friendship?
The answer to all of the above is yes!!! ( )
  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
Bookstore. Beach. That's all I needed to know I wanted to read it. Reading the description made it sound like it would be a sweet, heartwarming second chance at romance kind of story. I really liked that it involved a love interest from a very formative point in her younger life. I was really looking forward to a grown woman coming to terms with a sudden and tragic change to her life and family and finding the courage to open her heart again. At least, that's what the description made me think. Oh, it was sweet, but the best parts were not Autumn's.

The Plot: Three Interwoven Stories

Eighteen months ago, Autumn's husband of almost two decades mysteriously disappeared in Ukraine, supposedly not while working for the FBI as an informant, but, also, quite possibly. No one's telling her. With summer upon her and her two teenage kids, Autumn decides it's time for a change of scenery and packs up her shrunken family to her mother's beach house in the quaint seaside town of Sable Beach, Virginia.

A summer of sun, surf, relaxation, and books in her mother and aunt's bookstore by the beach is just what Autumn needs. And maybe a shot at her first love, who is also back in town after a rather messy divorce from his high school sweetheart. But, while her mother Mary is thrilled to have her family back in town, it also stirs up painful questions about her and Autumn's past she isn't ready to tell Autumn, a past that's finally catching up to her. There's also Autumn's daughter Taylor who was ripped apart by her father's disappearance that resulted in reckless behavior that might have a heavy impact on her future as she looks to college.

The Bookstore on the Beach is, not as the description might have you believing, the stories of three women in one family: Mary, who has a secret, traumatizing past she wants to keep secret; Autumn, who is desperate to find her missing husband, until an old flame shows up; and Taylor, who has her own potentially devastating secret and whose new friend has her questioning her sexuality. Each woman has her own heartwrenching story, and they were interwoven really well. I never actually felt that one took over the others. At the same time, I was a little let down that Taylor's story, which was just as present as the other two, felt a little separate as she chose to spend so much time away from her family. I wish the women had leaned on each other a little more, suffered, grieved, and healed together. But they were all on separate paths that just happened to be woven together quite well.

The description would have me believing this is, overarchingly, a romance. Unfortunately, it simply wasn't my cup of tea. I did love seeing the subtle shifts into it in Autumn, but, at some point, it felt more like a switch had been flipped rather than a full shift. It made it feel a little too sudden. What was probably meant to be heartbreaking and then heartwarming just left me feeling a little cold. I was not a fan of the romance and wish it had been handled a different way. It was, actually, a rather sweet romance, but just not for me.

Instead, I found the family story driving most of the book to be most interesting. Indeed, I felt Mary and Taylor had the more interesting, more compelling stories. They had all the secrets, and the secrets were slowly let out throughout the book. I was just disappointed when some of it felt more like plot points than a natural evolution of the story. But I loved how all the secrets affected the entire family, especially Autumn's son Caden.

I did liked that this book brought in sexuality and prejudices surrounding it. Actually, as a primarily fantasy reader who is accustomed to inclusive worlds, this was a little jarring, and it made me more than a little sad that it is reality. Honestly, I struggled with it because it broke my heart that these are real prejudices real people face. I do wonder if it could have been handled a little more openly, a little more sensitively especially by the other characters, but I also think I'm glad it was included.

The Characters: Three Women, One Family

The Bookstore on the Beach focuses on the three women, but it also had some fantastic secondary characters. They were well-crafted and had stories of their own, lives of their own, worries and concerns of their own. But there were also some tertiary characters that almost completely muddled together in my mind. I was disappointed that Caden was treated in this manner as I think he could have had an interesting story instead of being such a well-adjusted counterpoint to literally everyone else in the family.

Then there's the love interest for Autumn, Quinn. I thought he was adequately complex and kind of interesting, but he also came off as too much of a good guy, almost too perfect. But I liked that he had his own history that was, admittedly, kind of nutty. Unfortunately, he just didn't win me over, so that might explain why his and Autumn's romance made me feel cold.

But the focus of The Bookstore on the Beach is on Mary, Autumn, and Taylor. I really felt for Mary and really enjoyed her story. I think I kept reading because I wanted to know what she was hiding. It was more terrible than I thought, but it perfectly led to her characterization at that point of time in her life and in the story. I loved that it was coming back to haunt her, but also opened her to the opportunity to face and overcome it and prove to herself and everyone around her just how brave she is and was. Autumn was more of a problematic character to me. I think she was meant to have a heartbreaking story with her husband missing, but I felt like I missed out on most of her anguish, instead getting mostly a sappy Autumn who just jumped into a new romance. Overall, I felt she regressed back to adolescence and was barely functional as a mother until everything just fell on her head. But then there's Taylor, sweet, confused Taylor who cares deeply and is fiercely loyal. I loved everything about her. She was strong, but scared, yet had a strong backbone that a solid, happy childhood provided her. But she is deeply confused through most of the book and dealing with a huge secret that really impacted how she interacted with the other characters.

The Setting: A Quaint Seaside Town

The Bookstore on the Beach is set by the sea in a cute little seaside town called Sable Beach in Virginia. Everything about it is meant to be idyllic and beautiful. The why all comes down to Mary's past, so I found it easy to picture a picturesque town with a beautiful blue, glittering sea. One thing I found interesting, though, was that the characters constantly noted how hot it was, but, as I live close to beaches in Southern California, there seemed to be very little ice cream in sight? Maybe it's just me, but ice cream and summer and beaches usually go together.

Anyways, I loved that much of the story is set on the beach. It felt relaxing and beautiful and made me want to go to the beach. I loved how well it transported me to warm sands and blue water glistening in the sun. Nothing more idyllic than that! I just wish more attention to detail had been given to the town itself as I got a lovely sense of community, but had to make up most of what it looked like. I also wish the bookstore had played a larger role in the story, though it felt like a perfectly lovely place to quickly pick up a book. It felt more like an escape to the main characters than an actual place of business sometimes and I couldn't help wondering what it's bottom line was like.

Overall: The Family Story More Interesting Than the Romance

Overall, The Bookstore on the Beach has it's strength in the family part of the story. Mary and Taylor definitely had the more fascinating story lines that kept me reading while the romance was cute, but definitely not my cup of tea. This book has a lot in it, and I fear it may have overwhelmed the real exploration of Autumn's story and romance. I think I wanted more anguish from her, more conflicted emotions. It was just too neat and perfect, which made the ending not fall on a heartwarming note that made me smile. Honestly, I think there might have been too much packed into this story, but some good things were explored.

Thank you to Justine Sha at MIRA for a review copy and the opportunity to take part in the book blog tour for The Bookstore on the Beach. All opinions expressed are my own. ( )
  The_Lily_Cafe | May 29, 2022 |
The Bookstore on the Beach by Brenda Novak is a multifaceted novel. Autumn’s husband disappeared eighteen months ago, and she has exhausted every avenue trying to locate him. Autumn along with her two teenage children are heading to her mother’s beachside town for the summer. It will give them a chance to relax, be together, and heal. Autumn’s oldest child, Taylor is having a tough time. Taylor feels emotionally unconnected plus she has a secret she is keeping from her family. Mary, Autumn’s mother, has kept something from Autumn her whole life. Mary is afraid her daughter will learn the truth, but she does not feel it is the right time to share. Autumn reconnects with her high school crush and old feelings resurface. What should happen, though, if her husband returns? The novel contained good writing with realistic characters. The author packed a lot into the book with a missing husband, a teen questioning her sexuality, a woman with cancer, a woman with a hidden past, a second chance romance, a teen pregnancy, a criminal ex-wife, and expansion of the bookstore. It was easy to follow the various storylines once I got into the book. I did feel the ending was abrupt and needed an epilogue to make it feel complete. I enjoyed the descriptions of the bookstore, the beach, and Mary’s cottage. This story allows us to follow one family and the issues they are encountering over the course of a summer. This is a dramatic tale about one family’s drama. The Bookstore on the Beach is a good book to read while sitting beside a pool. ( )
  Kris_Anderson | May 22, 2021 |
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:"A page-turner with a deep heart."â??Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Summer
How do you start a new chapter of your life when you haven't closed the book on the previous one?
Eighteen months ago, Autumn Divac's husband went missing. Her desperate search has yielded no answers, and she can't imagine moving forward without him. But for the sake of their two teenage children, she has to try.
Autumn takes her kids home for the summer to the charming beachside town where she was raised. She seeks comfort working alongside her mother and aunt at their bookshop, only to learn that her daughter is facing a huge life change and her mother has been hiding a terrible secret for years. And when she runs into the boy who stole her heart in high school, old feelings start to bubble up again. Is she free to love him, or should she hold out hope for her husband's return? She can only trust her heart...and hope it won't lead her astr

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