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to move his relationship with Susie from friendship to serious love interest. One of the strongest books in this ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015

Woods returns with book 7 of her Chesapeake Shores series. This time the focus is the relationship of the “not dating” couple, Susie O’Brien and Mack Franklin. Mack has finally decided that it is time to act, to move his relationship with Susie from friendship to serious love interest. One of the strongest books in this popular series, Beach Lane is a rich, emotional read. I’ve looked forward to Mack and Susie’s story, but it exceeded my expectations. Friends-to-lovers is one of my favorite themes, and Beach Lane includes some wonderful scenes that show the transition in Susie and Mack’s relationship.

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Extremely disappointed in this book

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2017

Very disappointed in this book. Conflict based on keeping secrets. Boring dialogue. There's just no sparkle. Facts wrong: ie. Breast cancer is not treated with a biopsy and surgery all in one setting. You have to wait for the biopsy results. Extremely disappointed in lack of real conflict and not doing basic medical research. I have loved Ms. Woods books in the past, so this was a real let down.

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Shawn H.

Sad story

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2021

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One of the most depreshing stories I've read in along time. The hope in her books seemed to squeezed at the end. Just not my favorite.

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busybee

It was ok

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2018

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Not as good as the other books in the series. It seemed to drag on and on. Love the series.

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Lioness

Unbelievable relationship

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2017

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I have mixed feelings about this book. First, the couple in the romance have loved each other for years and spend a lot of time together. Yet they haven't had sex and don't even kiss! How likely is that? Then she finds she has cancer and about half the book is focused on that. I do not find this entertaining. I assume the author is trying to get a message across about cancer. However, I am a cancer survivor, and do not enjoy this subject in a 'romance' novel. Or maybe this isn't a real romance novel?
I also found that the book changes the subject from one paragraph to the next, so kind of confusing. This might be because I have the Kindle edition... ??

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Marlene Frew

Another fine book

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2013

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another selection in my collection of Sherryl Woods books. I am always buying anything new that she puts one. Have been reading her books for years.

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Katherine

About Time

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2016

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I am rereading the entire series and Beach Lane has left me flat. Susie was never a character I liked in the prior stories and frankly her actions in this one were so childish in her dealings with Mack and Kristen I found myself losing interest in her story. I realize that no one is reading a romance for a cancer story but if it is going to be used as a plot device then the story needs more meat. I felt it was so glossed over I generated little sympathy for Susie and truly only related to Mack.

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AsahMommy

Kind of like riding a kiddie roller coaster...

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2011

I enjoyed some of the characters Ms. Woods created in this series; however, because there were so many characters, I never felt very close to any one of them. There is much interference from the O'Brien relatives that at some points it annoyed me. If my parents, brothers, sisters, had asked about my sex life or personal relationships as often as this family did, I'd go insane.

Mack and Susie are adults, but at times it felt as if they were teens being watched over by a group of well intentioned relatives and friends. I found it too claustrophobic. Reading about a family that became so intertwined in their relative's personal business that they threatened to beat up or handle the relative's significant other felt condescending and invasive.

I felt it was quite dreary with Susie's illness being a huge focus of the book. The intimate scenes were brief and fleeting. The romance was short and cut off by more serious issues. And with all the friends and family members taking up space in the book, I didn't really attach myself to the family or the romantic leads.

It just didn't work for me, I guess. We all have our own styles of writing we prefer to read and this storyline just didn't work for me.

The story felt like a roller coaster ride where you see a hill coming, hoping it might get your pulse pumping, but soon find the hill was just a bump and the bump flattens out. You get off feeling cheated...especially if you got on thinking it was going to be a grown-up roller coaster ride with peaks and valleys that would take your breath away. This felt flat to me and I don't intend on buying any others in the series. I live near the Chesapeake Bay and so I thought this would be an interesting read, but I much preferred Nora Roberts' Chesapeake Blue series.

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Anne D. Kress

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2015

Kinda boring and predictable..
not too interesting..

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