Our Place on the Island

Our Place on the Island by Erika Montgomery and here is my review.

The Campbell women know loss. Mickey is on the verge of losing her restaurant and her business partner has no idea. Cora and her daughter Hedy, lost their husband and father but Cora has moved on with her life and all the Campbell women are coming back together for Cora's wedding. A wedding Hedy doesn't approve of. It's too soon after the loss of her dad.

But Cora knows she isn't rushing anything and when Cora's past starts to come to light, it has all the women questioning the choices you have made up until now and whether they can dig themselves out of the holes they have dug for themselves.

I actually enjoyed this one even with the slower pace, I usually like my books to get to the point a little faster but the pace worked really well for this one.

The storyline straddles two timelines, current day and Cora as a newlywed. I really enjoyed the past part of the book with Cora, her life in the early years before she was a mother and grandmother. I didn't much care for Hedy and Mickey really didn't come alive for me until nearer the end of the book. It felt like Cora was given all the limelight and that ruined Mickey for me. She really needed to have the same treatment to get a fuller picture of her and to make you connect with her on a more personal level.

I found the idea of them all coming together for a wedding really charming and once you understand Cora's story, you get a real feel of what fate can do in your life. The moral being you are never too old for true love and love has no expiration date. I love books with endings like this but the lack of character development of Mickey really did it damage in my opinion. The writing was really lucid and it was an entertaining read.

If you love books that jump from the past to the present with a generational family story, then this might have to be your next read!

3.5 stars. Thank you @stmartinspress for my gifted copy