Showing posts with label lakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lakes. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2026

It's Not Her

It's Not Her by Mary Kubica, 352 pages

Courtney thought the family trip to the lake was going just fine until she woke to find her brother and sister-in-law murdered in their cabin. To make things worse, her teenage niece is missing, and her nephew managed to sleep through the whole thing. As Courtney works with local authorities to search for her niece and figure out who killed her relatives, she discovers that things weren't quite as rosy as they seemed, and the list of suspects could include just about everyone.

Interspersed with flashback chapters from the missing niece's point of view, this thriller certainly keeps the reader guessing and the plot zooming along. The problem comes when all the cards are finally on the table and we learn exactly what happened, as the culprits feel a bit random (did the author throw names in a hat and pick someone out? It's possible!). I read this a few weeks ago, and I honestly couldn't remember the particulars until I looked it up. So maybe pass on this one. (Unless you really want to read every book about a missing teenage girl, then sure, add this to your TBR for completion's sake.)

Monday, March 2, 2026

One Golden Summer

One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune, 400 pages

When she was 17, Alice spent the summer at her grandmother's lake house and took an amazing photo of teens in a boat. As she started her photography career, she gained success, but nothing ever lived up to that one photo, in part because it was so free from the demands of commercial Photoshop-heavy photography. So when she gets a chance to return to the lake house to care for her grandmother after she breaks her hip, Alice takes the opportunity to reevaluate her life and her photography. What she doesn't expect is to fall for the insufferable man who comes roaring across the lake in a familiar boat.

This book reads like a chick flick in book form, and I mean that in the best of ways. It's a comfortable romance, full of humor and emotion, and just a wee bit of spice, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it adapted for the screen. Read it on your next lake vacation.