Five-Star Summer by Sarah Morgan

Five-Star Summer by Sarah Morgan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!
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Running a five-star Cornish hotel should have been Evie Hamilton’s dream job. But restoring it to its former glory is going to take a miracle. All Evie has is grit, and a hoard of unruly staff who love to speculate about her love life. She needs back-up, and fast.

Enter Abby Jones. Parachuted in by the hotel’s umbrella company for the summer, Abby thinks Evie could be the best friend she never had. But Abby has her own agenda for being in Cornwall. If her real motives are uncovered, their friendship is going to melt away faster than an ice cream in the summer sun.

Yet Abby’s arrival starts a chain reaction. With the help of a charming chef and a gruff pub owner, they begin to embrace their true selves and the bonds that unite them. But it’s not just the hotel’s five-star reputation that needs rebuilding – Evie and Abby will also have to brave tearing down their lives in order to reshape their futures…
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After reading several thrillers recently, I was looking for a kinder, gentler kind of book to kind of cleanse my palate, and this new offering from Sarah Morgan was all that I was hoping it would be. It had everything that is needed in a contemporary romance beach read as we head into the summer months, but it was also more than that. This was a tale of found family and women's friendship, of starting over and learning more about yourself. Told from multiple points of view, this book gave us insight into the thoughts and experiences of the three women who were at the heart of the storyline, and Morgan weaved their lives together to create a very enjoyable novel. I found myself coming to care about the small town of Cornwall, the hotel at the center of the story, and most of all the various characters (and some of them were real characters) who made up the cast of the book. There was just enough conflict to keep things interesting, and best of all, there was a HEA (and maybe even more than one!) to tie everything up in the end. I realize now that I have read very few of Morgan's books, and I want to go back and remedy that immediately.

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