Give Me One Summer by Emilie Loring

Give Me One Summer Reviews

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  Crystal

  This book, although I read it quite awhile ago, I remember as being good, clean fun. maybe not the most original character, and sometimes some description-heavy prose--but still an enjoyable read.
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  Madeline

  A very sweet Emilie Loring book. A fast, sweet read.
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  Clara Ellen

  Another heartwarmer by Emilie Loring! I love the descriptions of the Maine coast - makes me feel I am there..
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  Donna

  Lissa Barclay has been managing Tarry Farm, located on the coast of Maine, and nursing her Aunt Hetty until her death. Now the property is going to her husband's nephew, Alexander Carson. Lissa was left her aunt's jewels and the island with the lighthouse on it, which her aunt bought with her own money, but Mr. Carson has been made trustee. She is taking her outboard motor boat to the lighthouse, accompanied by her Irish terrier, G-man, when another boat raced towards her and she is forced to jump overboard. She is rescued by the crew of another ship. She speaks amiably with her handsome rescuer. It isn't until a little while later that he learns that he is Alexander "Lex" Carson himself. Carson is there not only to take possession of his inheritance, but conduct a secret mission. And he is immediately attracted to Lissa.
  
  To complicate her life further, Lissa's stepmother and stepsister, Cleo, are also at Tarry Farm. Lissa doesn't like either one of them. Cleo stole away Lissa's fiance, Johnny Grant, simply because she felt like it, and then she tossed him aside. This same ex-fiance also shows up, hoping to win Lissa back. She doesn't trust him or any man with her heart. She fight her attraction to Lex.
  
  I liked this book. The plot and characterization are both good. It does get a little tiresome the way the Lissa is waxing poetic on numerous occasions throughout the book, usually to avoid a topic of conversation. Still, I see that is just her personality.
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  Sophie

  This is a genuine Emilie and full of her trademark optimism:

  Life is like that after showers, she thought. Storm and stress and the rain of tears followed by clearing skies and the sunshine of hope and joy and courage.

  But it is not one of my favorites. Mostly because I find it a little nauseating that the main character's burning ambition is to be a writer. Writers writing about writers (even would-be writers) is annoying enough to me, but in this case, it's clear the character's ambition is to be Emilie Loring:

  She opened her manuscript at the page where the story had stuck ... she thought of how the male lead had dashed up a flight of stairs in pursuit of the clue to a mystery which threatened his love interest ...

  In other words, the main character is writing an Emilie Loring romantic suspense novel. Yikes. Emilie, I love you, but that's a little self-indulgent for me.
  
  Other than that annoying sub-plot, though, it's a typically entertaining and satisfying Loring romance in sunny, summery Maine.
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  Jeanne

  I started reading Emile Loring books when I picked up a paperback from a rack in a hotel lobby (for 50 cents) while on my sister's & my yearly vacation to visit my father. Hooked! I went on to purchase and read every Emilie Loring romance written and available in paperback, not knowing that she had died before I was even born. I loved these books, but read them when I was between about 12 and 18 years old. I was a young reader - do keep that in mind! :-)
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  Lisa M.

  Another superb Emilie Loring book. It’s lovely to have clean fiction still with classic suspense and romance!
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  Replicant Rachel

  so much talking, gets nowhere
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  Katie

  Delightful quick read with period pace and slang. A little whodunit and a little romance.