Book Excerpt:
"Sandy Gingras's Paradise Girls features a broken engagement. A ruined vacation in paradise. One adorable little girl. The perfect recipe for the chance of a lifetime...
Mary Valley is in a funk. She's a writer for home magazines, but she's lost touch with what home means. Her life seems meaningless. The last house she wrote about was a gazillion-dollar mansion with a moat! Plus, she's estranged from her daughter, CC, and granddaughter, Larkin, and mired in a dead-end relationship with her boss.Daniel is a man adrift since his son Timmy was killed in Afghanistan. He lives on a houseboat in Florida with Timmy's three-legged dog, Tripod, and takes tourists out on fishing charters. But his life is on edge. He's painting his houseboat black, and he can't stop thinking about "getting lost at sea."
When Mary's boss tells her he's spending Christmas with his ex, she books a trip with her family to The Low Key Inn, a hotel on the edge of the Everglades. But things go wrong from the get-go. CC bails out of the vacation, and Mary is stuck with an unhappy Larkin. The hotel is dated, down-on-its-luck, and perhaps its owner is a witch. Then Mary meets Daniel, casts a hook into his head, and wrecks his boat.
This is the story of how wounded people can help each other heal and how lost people can help each other find their way home. How life can become a love story…"
Title: Paradise Girls
Author: Sandy Gingras
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Griffin
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Five
Review:
"Paradise Girls" by Sandy Gingras
My Assessment:
"Paradise Girls" was quite an interesting Christmas story portrayed by having so many subtopics...from sadness, heartbreaking, and depressing to an ending that finally showed some happiness. The author gives the reader something to think over as she delivers a well-written read about Mary, her daughter CC, granddaughter, Larkin, Daniel, Ollie, and Al. We find that each of these characters had something to work over to get to that certain future they all needed, giving the reader a good read.
Be ready for quite a read that will give one' loss, grief, hopes, vulnerability, dreams, and love' self-discovery, forgiveness, and a satisfying conclusion that will leave a smile on your face. "Paradise Girls' indeed was able to show how even wounded people can help one another find themselves.
Thank you, NetGalley, St. Marin's Press, for the chance to read and review this book.
Author: Sandy Gingras
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Griffin
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Five
Review:
"Paradise Girls" by Sandy Gingras
My Assessment:
"Paradise Girls" was quite an interesting Christmas story portrayed by having so many subtopics...from sadness, heartbreaking, and depressing to an ending that finally showed some happiness. The author gives the reader something to think over as she delivers a well-written read about Mary, her daughter CC, granddaughter, Larkin, Daniel, Ollie, and Al. We find that each of these characters had something to work over to get to that certain future they all needed, giving the reader a good read.
Be ready for quite a read that will give one' loss, grief, hopes, vulnerability, dreams, and love' self-discovery, forgiveness, and a satisfying conclusion that will leave a smile on your face. "Paradise Girls' indeed was able to show how even wounded people can help one another find themselves.
Thank you, NetGalley, St. Marin's Press, for the chance to read and review this book.
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