Spend another month in Five Island Cove and experience an amazing adventure between five best friends, the challenges they face, the secrets threatening to come between them, and their undying support of each other.Eloise Hall has reached a turning point: she either wants to marry Aaron or break up. Her scientific mind gets clouded by her heart, and she decides to quit her job at Boston … at Boston University and move back to Five Island Cove to fix up and open The Cliffside Inn, a building she purchased decades ago on the rocky cliffs of Sanctuary Island.
She thinks that’ll show Aaron she’s ready to wear a diamond and say I-do.
Robin and Alice are dealing with their teenage children who’ve started dating when Alice learns that her ex-husband has filed for bankruptcy. All of the payments she’s been getting…won’t be coming anymore.
With her husband back from Alaska, Robin struggles to learn how to balance home and family with her full-time job as well as her friends. When she has to make a difficult choice between her husband and helping Eloise with the inn, Robin doesn’t know which to support.
AJ has met a great guy — or so she says. She’s been texting her friends about a man named Peterson, but when they’re supposed to come to the cove to help Eloise with the inn, only AJ shows up.
Kelli brings her son to the cove for another extended vacation after learning her husband has started another relationship in New Jersey. He’s asked her to consider an open relationship where they stay married, and he can still see and date this other woman.
With their different personalities and in their different states of mind, none of these best friends are prepared for the secret contained within the walls of The Cliffside Inn. They’ve survived tough situations before, but this might be the thing that tears them apart for good…
more
Hard to keep all the characters separated
I enjoyed the interplay between the five friends. There were complications and unhappiness but that’s life. Everything didn’t turn out positive but relationships between friends were worked out. I wished I had friends with strong bonds like these.
About middle aged women in relationship transitions. Well written but not my cup of tea.
Not really crazy about the book. Way too many people to keep track of, not to mention their kids and X spouses! Also very unlikely to happen in real life! Sorry, but not my favorite book!
I enjoyed this book very much, and can’t wait to read the next in the series.
An entertaining storyline with an array of emotional issues and upheavals facing the various characters that kept the story flowing and interesting
Light relaxing reading.
I enjoyed the book but Eloise’s decision left me scratching my head. I hope the next book makes things clearer.
Tons of typos and characters. Predictable.
Somewhat entertaining. There is an ambitious number of characters likely which will be part of future novels, but none of them was fleshed out to be realistic. Nothing terribly bad, nothing terribly great.
I want to know more about the brother. I have unanswered questions.
I enjoyed it but I would have enjoyed it more if I has read the two previous books first. After I read the first two, I went back and reread this one. It was worth it.
This is the 2nd book written b Jessie Newton and I liked it as much as the first one. The main characters are well developed and the story continues to show their vulnerabilities and the strong bond these five women have for each other. A sixth woman is a mother figure to them and they seek her love and advice with difficulties in their lives. If you like books with strong, yet vulnerable women, a bond among friends that can’t be broken and characters who are flawed and learn from their flaws, then this book is for you! I encourage you to sit down with these six women and immerse yourself with their life stories to enjoy! I’m looking forward to the next Five Island Cove book “Christmas at the Cove!”
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
This is book three of the Five Island Cove series and sees a group of lifelong friends coming together as each face their own challenges in life and love. The five friends are Eloise, Robin, AJ, Alice and Kelli. Kelli has just found out that her husband Julian is in love with a younger woman who also works in his courier business, and he wants Kelli to join them in being a ‘throuple’! The final straw is seeing them in bed together and her husband asking her to join them. She takes her eight year old son Parker back to Five Island Cove to stay with her old friend Alice. She also needs to deal with a man called Zach, who has tried to prove he is her half-brother, but has been bothering her elderly mother for money!
Alice is weeks away from her divorce from her ex Frank, finally being finalised and settling into her own life with her twins Ginny and Jamie. But there seems to be a lot of secrets from his side of their relationship and money issues, which she will discover later on in the book. Robin is married to fisherman Duke, who has been away fishing in Alaska for over four months, and she can’t wait for him to get back. They have two children, Jamie and Mandie, and he comes back to find they have grown into teenagers with the usual demanding lives and that Robin has her own schedule that she organises well without him. The two of them will have to relearn how to work together as a team once again before the next departure comes along. AJ works away on the mainland and rarely comes back to see all the others. She is the only one so far away, but her chasing of a front of camera position, instead of just being the one behind the stories doing all the research, may finally make her have to decide what she really wants.
Eloise has finally given up her job of teaching biology after some twenty years and moved back to the island to stay with her mother, while she starts to renovate the Cliffside Inn of the title, enough to stay in the caretakers abode. It was a big decision, but she has fond memories of the place from her youth and wants to see the whole building redeveloped and has visions for each of the rooms and what it could become. Another reason is to take her relationship with Aaron and his daughters Billie and Grace, to the next step and he is firmly fixed on the island with his job as the chief of police. The building previously belonged to her father, but is was foreclosed on by the bank and she bought it cheaply, after he didn’t leave it to her in his will. The latter part of his life was one she doesn’t like to remember, as he was a nasty, alcoholic and devious gambler and left both her mother and her almost penniless when he left the island, before his death. All of the friends do what they can to help out with the clear out of the inn, when they can and meet to discuss all of their problems with each other.
A discovery that Eloise makes from within the walls of the old inn, could help fix many of their financial issues, but her distant brother has another agenda. The five women formed into lifelong friends whilst part of the Seafaring Girls group as teens at the Lighthouse with a woman called Kirsten, and she is still a person they all gravitate towards when they need advice. Issues with bad parenting, alcohol problems, needing to change lives completely, find a job and a new home, become more independent, deal with teenage children and new relationships, and then legal issues as well. Every type of family issue you can imagine is brought into the mix, as these women come back together to help each other with the changes they are each facing. Eloise has a very difficult issue to deal with at the end of the story and it could end up pushing each of the other women away from her and each other.
A great read and realistic storyline of everyday issues in our modern world. This is the first book I have read in this series and the multitude of names and characters took a little while to get my head around at the start, but you need to learn about each characters own situation and place in the story, to follow what happens. I look forward to catching up with the other books and all future ones by this author. I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.
This is my first time reading something by Ms. Newton, but it certainly won’t be my last. This book is about a group of women who have been close to each other for a very long time and love each other dearly. They each have difficult issues and challenges they are facing and I loved how supportive they were of each other. There were so many layers to this book with each woman’s story, but all were woven together so expertly and the storyline flowed smoothly. The characters all had such great depth and personalities I enjoyed getting to know them. These characters felt real and relatable facing their challenges and struggles. There are many plot twists and turns, that will keep you turning the pages anxious to find out what happens next. This is the third book in the series and after reading this one, I definitely want to go back and read the first two! It is a beautiful and inspiring story and I highly recommend it!
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Confusing and Scattered
The author of this book is a talented writer; her words are easy to understand and paint an excellent picture. But I have a problem with the books in this series. I think the author is being too ambitious following the lives of five women (and their families) who have been friends for a long time. For me as a reader, it’s just too much to try to keep track of. I feel like I need to write out a few sheets with all the pertinent information about each woman’s backstory, their families, and their sequential trials and tribulations throughout the series. Frankly, I don’t like a book that makes me work that hard! I think these characters, who are wonderful and complex, would have been better served if each just had a book about her with a little peripheral information about the friends as often happens in chick lit. To me, not only is the way the author is doing it confusing, but it makes the book seem scattered and unfocused with no true story or character arcs. If you enjoy women’s fiction that seems to be more about the exploration of their friendships than of any one coherent plot that follows one or two characters through a satisfying character arc and plotline, you might enjoy this more than I did.
2.5 rounded up to 3
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
Entertaining and interesting characters. Lots of twists and turns to keep you hanging on until the end. Great dialogue and interaction between characters. Witty and complex issues with all the characters. Good read.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
It was great to see the ladies again and see where they are now, not everything is smooth sailing but there are also some sweet and happy moments as well getting to see the inn finally taking shape! The one thing that really really irked me was how Eloise’s find at the inn turned into so much more but then she just bends over to what was requested, I felt well a little let down by the women and Eloise and almost would rather it have not been in the book.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
The third book in the Five Island Cove series a well written story that kept me turning pages. Five girlfriends Robin, Alice, Eloise, Kelli, and AJ’s story of how they are all their for each other as they go through another chapter in their lifes. Eloise and Aaron’s story mainly this time. I want to read the next book. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Really loved the first two books in this series and have really enjoyed this book as well. Started it the other night and finished it this morning. So hard to put down.
The five ladies who were in the Seafaring group all those years back have grown into the best of friends and really seem to have each other’s back when they need help. No matter what kind of help is needed. You don’t cross one girl without crossing them all.
All I can see about this book is you certainly don’t want to miss it. A great cast of characters and you will laugh, smile, cry and sometimes get angry. You go through the feels with it. A must for the romantic.