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A Month At The Shore (2003)

by Antoinette Stockenberg(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0312981554 (ISBN13: 9780312981556)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

St. Martin's Paperbacks

review 1: A Month at the Shore by Antoinette Stockenberg is a story about 3 siblings that grew up in their family business, a nursery. The family was poor but much worse than that was the way their dad treated them and their mom ignored it. Two of 3 siblings moved on to other parts of the country as soon as they were old enough and only Corinne stayed behind to continue working at the nursery. When their final parent passed away, the siblings all came back to the nursery for the memorial. Corinne manages to talk her brother and sister into helping her bring the nursery back to life and they agree to help her for one month.During that month at the shore, lots of things Snack and Laura left behind when they moved their lives across the country resurface. Old friends, enemies, and memo... moreries come back to haunt them. At first they're acutely reminded of why they left in the first place but they eventually start to question was it so bad after all?The first half of the book was mostly a reflection on their past. The plot in current time was slow moving and downright unexciting. As I approached the middle of the book I was thinking to myself what could possibly happen for the rest of this story? It seemed tied up and ready for it's predictable ending. And that's when everything changed...All of a sudden the novel takes a turn when human remains are found in the nursery compost heap. The dust kicks up and the story kicks into high gear. The plot moves briskly, conspiracy theories swirl, and friendships begin to shift.Overall, I thought the book was just OK. I tend to stick it out to the end of a novel no matter what but had I been the type of person that only reads what they love, I would have quit before half time - and I'm not sure I would have been missing much.
review 2: I'm a very quick reader. But it took me a while to get thru the first 10 chapters. They were a bit slow (for me) and not very thrilling. But, once we hit chapter 11, it was all a go!this book turned out to be a very good read. I enjoyed the mystery of the book (which I didn't even realize there was going to be a mystery!), and the romance, even though it was pretty light on the romance.The only reason I only givve it 3 stars, is I felt the first half was just too drawn out. less

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