This week's book:
28 Summers
By Elin Hilderbrand
I have been seeing books by this author for a while and I had never picked one of her books up. This past week my online book group had a buddy read for the book 28 Summers. The book for the most part takes place on Labor Day weekend, so it's a perfect post for today… Labor Day.
I don't want to say I hated the book, because I did finish the audiobook, but my God, did it make me mad. Have you ever heard of the movie Same Time Next Year? Because the book and that film have almost the same plot. Both the film and the book are about two people meeting once a year to have a weekend of romance, but in both stories the people are married/involved with other people. The whole book is so much more dramatic than it needs to be. If two people love each other as much as the two characters do in the novel, why in the holy heck would you not just spend the rest of your life with them instead of some overly complicated once a year love affair for almost thirty years?
I have never been a fan of Hallmark/Lifetime style stories in books or films, so I just don't think this book was my cup of tea.
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