Maria Pinelli is voluptuous, confident, smart and sassy. She’s also extremely unlucky in love. It doesn’t help that she’s wildly in-love with her handsome but socially inept best friend Ethan, who happens to be engaged to a young, bubbly, skinny blonde.As Maria tries to forget her woes by throwing herself into her work at the Olsen Corporation, a revelation threatens to unravel her family and she … family and she comes to rely on her friendship with Ethan more than ever.
Ethan attempts to forget the trauma of his childhood by managing his life to the minute. He begins to find that there is no recipe for life, and no amount of meal prep or precise ironing will change the fact that sometimes life is meant to be messy.
Does Maria have what it takes to keep her family from imploding? And can Ethan overcome the ghosts of his past and allow himself to live a life without fear?
‘Spring at Lake Grange’ is a story of love, family and facing your fears in order to live the life you were born to live.
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I just loved how Maria and Ethan were fairly opposite but brought the best of each other, you couldn’t help but smile at their interactions and love how caring their families were. This book is definitely about finding what makes you happy not just with work but life and that it is never too late to find love and sometimes it’s all about revisiting your past. This is the first book I have read in the series so will be reading the others to catch up now!!
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Book four in the Seasons series. Maria Pinelli is voluptuous, confident, smart and sassy and she is in love with Ethan who hasn’t a clue. But Ethan has somethings from his past that he must get over before he can move forward. I want to read more in this series. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I have thoroughly enjoyed this series, I love the fact that the women are over 40, are strong women and are still able to find their happy ever after.
This one especially ticked all my boxes due to its abundance of inclusion from so many aspects of our society.
I really loved our main female character Maria, we were introduced to her in book 3, Winter in Mason Valley and it was lovely to see her get her own story. She’s such a positive, sassy, sexy lady and I loved that she really seemed to know who she was.
Ethan was a different kind of character altogether, described as socially inept and he certainly was that, part of it came from his upbringing, and lack of positive role models and lack of relationships formed when he was young, but part of me continued to feel that he seemed to be on the autism spectrum, whether this is because I work in this industry or not, I don’t know, but I liked that this man, who had so many social issues, was still able to find ‘the one’ and form a meaningful relationship. I did find myself rolling my eyes many many times at Ethan’s complete inability to understand feelings and felt sad that he thought feelings were to be avoided at all costs.
I liked Maria’s whole family, her brothers were both good characters and I especially loved her brother Steven and I thought it was very brave and right of him to decide it was time for him to be happy and to be truthful to his family no matter the fallout, in order to be true to himself. I loved how wonderful Maria’s relationship was with Steven and how she had his back completely.
There was so much to like about this novel, it was a story of family, of inclusiveness, of figuring out who you really were and what you really wanted, a story of coming to terms with what life has dealt you and loving those around you for who they are no matter what. I definitely ended this novel feeling good for all the characters involved and knowing that they would all be travelling happily ever after.
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This is a well written book with strong characters and an interesting story line. The author does a great job building the story and pulling you in with all the emotions flowing through the pages. She brings action and a true to life read , painting her scenes in vivid detail. I enjoyed reading.
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These characters were very different but interesting, as was the story. There was a sidelines homosexuality theme.
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Family Drama At Its Best
This is a multi-layered story of family and how it changes. From the scars some carry from having a horrible family to the joy of having a family to depend on, there is quite a range of action in this book. The entire story was very true to life with honest emotions and believable situations. While I was very disappointed with the very graphic sex, it was easy to skip past. I received this ARC book for free from Booksprouts and this is my honest review.