3.5 stars. An easy summer read.

So charming and easy to read and get into

I love the characters and it was a sweet and satisfying read. I feel connected to the main character, I too broke my leg and I have a limp, but more than that she's personable. An easy read, fun, inviting. Some mystery, some romance, a lot of soul searching.

Four stars because it made me feel like I was in the beautiful, rainy, green English countryside. An excellent book for Anglophiles who wish they didn't live under a heat dome.

I devoured this book and now I’m really wishing I’d read slower. I dreamed about it the other night! She’s one of my favorite authors and this one was just as fantastic as all her others. My only quibble was that there were some funky loose ends at the end that I felt like Olivia should have been more upset about or at least been further explored. But the setting, the food descriptions, and the great side characters were all on point, and I loved Olivia.

Well, that was (mostly) fun. Easy read Just what i needed. Glad I didn't think too hard about it while I was reading it (or after).

Good beach read!

**Spoilers**

I listened to this book while I was driving to and from work. However, as I got about a little over half-way I had to know what happened and would start to read or listen to it while at home too. I really enjoyed the narrator’s voice. The characters were interesting and the secrets from the past were intriguing and kept me wondering. The relationship with Samir was interesting and I liked how he tried to help prop Olivia up and make her more independent in her new world. I appreciated that Olivia was respectful of Samir’s boundaries around his writing. I liked their dynamic with each other and there were a few swoony moments.

I did feel like the clues about the past were revealed kind of slowly and that the treasure hunt clues were just kind of forgotten about at times. This then leads to the end of the book kind of shoving all the clues at you at once. I was also a bit weirded out by the end of the book where Olivia learns that she is really a few years older than she thought. How can an almost 40 year-old not know that they are actually already 40? I found this part very unbelievable. I also was left with more questions about the past that were never going to be answered. I also was curious if Olivia’s mother knew that that estate’s money was slowly being stolen? I was a bit bummed that more wasn’t explored about Haver and Rebecca’s involvement in the estate’s money.

While I enjoyed the characters and the world that Barbara O’Neal created I just had trouble with the ending of the book. It left me with more questions and a bitter taste about Olivia’s true age.