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a surprise. This was thoroughly enjoyable despite being somewhat predictable, like comfort food, I found it moving, with a lot of depth, and nothing like I had expected, Having lost my mother recently, some parts were tough as I related too much, yet this likely contributed to my overall love for the novel as well.
The Beach House is a magical feelgood South Carolina Lowcountry novel, the first in a series, I read booklast summer and was surprised to see this is a series, I loved it and knew I had to read them all!
Daughter Caretta, Chicago IL is requested to come home to her mama Lovies beach house on Isle of Palms SC.
Once she arrives home she begins to experience all shes been missing in the lastyears since leaving there love of family, real friendships, true love, and becoming a turtle lady protecting loggerhead beach nests.

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, she begins to reconnect with her mama which is this reason Lovey wanted her home, Lovey needed to become close to her daughter again as a mother and child should be, as shes made important changes to her will and needs to divulge a few important secrets shes kept for decades.
Add to that a recent medical issue she hasnt revealed to anyone with exception to her dear friend, She feels its time has come to reach out to her daughter and release them before its too late, A beautiful story that will make you laugh but also bring a tear to your eye, I enjoyed this, its such a heartfelt, fun and wonderful book! I rated all the! Although I started out thinking the writing was a bit corny at times, I give itfor all the wonderful, clever and moving analogies between women/life and loggerhead turtles and their amazing life cycle.
It was fitting that the first part to move me to tears, about motherhood, I read on Mother's Day on a plane headed back to where I was hatched.
That was aboutinto it, and the story only got better and better from there, winning my hanky rating with

a predictable but beautiful and thoroughly enjoyable ending.
Great story about family love and pain, romance and life on the seashore, What a nice sweet beach read, Wonderful story about love and forgiveness, I have to say, this book surprised me! Looking at it, I would have assumed it was a generic romance novel like many of the other books on the shelves at my club.
But I wouldn't even call it a romance novel, There is some romance in it, but it's very clean, and that's definitely not the central focus of this book,

One thing I didn't like and it almost put me off at the beginning of the book is something I consider a lazy authoring technique having the characters say things to each other like "you know me I love to be outside" or "you know me I can't do anything without my morning coffee!" It seems such a lazy way to set up characters, and so obvious people who actually know each other and know each other well don't say that to each other.
Because they already know it! I might say to a friend, "you know how I am about maple doughnuts", and she does.
But I don't explain to her how I am about maple doughnuts she knows! Anyway, there was a lot of this in the beginning of the book, but I kept going.
And I'm glad I did :

It's a little naturelovery, because of the whole deal with the turtles, but they are so integral to the story that it wouldn't have been a story without them.
I appreciated the author giving some information and education about them, but not using the story as a device to further a bleeding heart cause.


The development of the mother/daughter relationship in this book is really beautiful, Although I wondered often how the daughter was paying bills and what she was doing for money, her "transformation" from highpowered city career woman to turtle lady was for the most part very believeable.


I also liked the unwed mother's character, It was fascinating to see how she viewed Cara and her mother, money, home, etc, Her boyfriend was annoying, but I guess that was his job,

I did like this book, and will definitely recommend it to others, Loaned to me by a friend, who is anxious for me to read Mary Alice Monroe's books,
This was a very good novel about a prestigious Lowcountry South Carolina family, It contains numerous references to loggerhead turtles and their nesting habits on Isle of Palms, where the author is a member of the Turtle Team, just as her main characters were.
While I do not normally like these "family sagas," I quickly became engrossed in the lives of the family and their friends and was pleased that it ended exactly as it should have.
Very enjoyable. It's chiclit written well. It's predictable, nobrainer, relaxing, light, No surprises. It's a lesson in southern charm, and southern food and southern morals, And a moral quest to save sea turtles,

Then there's family dynamics, a cruel history with secrets waiting to burst forth, and a flourishing future, There's a romance and a few other elements to boot like the few billion books, following the exact same blueprint, in the same genre.


Not a bad book for the right audience, I'm not. And that's it. It's a good read when you don't need to think too much, Oh, Hallmark movie material!


This is myst novel by Mary Alice Monroe, I found it to be a great beach read and wonderful telling of the nature of Loggerhead turtles,
Set in the Isle of Palms this story was about friendship, heartbreak, love and loss,
The storyline, characters and information about the turtles were woven together to capture and keep my interest,
I look forward to the next book in the series! After losing her highpowered advertising job in Chicago, Caretta Rutledge grudgingly returns to her lowcountry home at her mother's behest.
Cara has long resented her mother, who focused her maternal efforts more on looking after the annual loggerhead turtle spawn than on protecting herself and her children from their abusive father.
But when Cara learns that her mother is ill, she must lay her bitterness aside and try to make amends, Cara starts by restoring her mother's small beach house and joining the same turtle brigade she resented while growing up, In the process, she reconnects with an old friend and finds love in the arms of a local boat owner and naturalist.


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