It was interesting learning about the mural competition along with what it took to create a mural and restore one. As Morgan Christopher works on the mural, we get to follow Anna as she works on creating it. I like how the story is laid out in the two different timelines. I’m gonna chalk my disappointment with this up with it being one of her first books.Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain is an intriguing story. I will continue to read Diane Chamberlain’s books, seeing as I’ve enjoyed all the others I read by her. I had high hopes for Summer’s Child, but it was ultimately disappointing. It was perhaps the only thing I enjoyed from the book.

I will say that I did enjoy Shelly story and how it ended. It just wasn’t as satisfying as I had hoped it would be. I don’t want to spoil the book for anyone who may want to read it in the future, so I won’t say too much about the ended. She spent the entire book obsessing over him and his relationship with Grace. She hadn’t seen him in nearly 20 years and a day after he shows back up she’s suddenly completely in love with him? Bleh. I liked Daria as a character, but I was pretty annoyed with how much she talked about being in love with Rory. I did like how much Rory loved her and how obvious that was though. She was a woman who was born with one too many chromosomes but still lived a happy and full life. I know it’s just arrogance of the characters, but it just annoyed me. I guess I can’t blame it too hard seeing as the book is nearly 20 years old and language then is different than now, but it still bothers me a bit. One of the main things was how Polly was discussed. It wasn’t awful, but certain things really bugged me. Sadly, this one didn’t quite live up to my expectations. I feel like her novels are a breath of fresh air.

Piece by piece, the mystery of summer’s child is being exposed, a mystery that no one involved-not Shelly, Daria, not even Rory-is prepared to face.ĭiane Chamberlain has recently become one of my favorite authors. The more questions Rory asks, the more unsettled the tiny community becomes, as closely guarded secrets and the sins of that long-ago summer begin to surface. But when Rory Taylor, a friend from Daria’s childhood and now a television producer, returns at Shelly’s request to do a story about the circumstances surrounding her birth, something precarious shifts in the small town of Kill Devil Hills. Now, twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal young woman whom Daria continues to protect. But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria. When the infant’s identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by Daria’s loving family. GENRE: Fiction, Romance, Mystery, Women’s LitĮarly on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea-an abandoned newborn baby.

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