Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025--San Antonio
One Golden Summer by Carley Foretune is a "summer romance novel" which was listed as one of the best books so far in 2025 and which the library offered with "no holds" via the Libby app last weekend, so I downloaded it. It's a good book. There is wonderful bickering dialog between the two main characters that kept me laughing over and over again. Alice, a professional photographer returns to a summer cabin on a lake for two months with her grandmother who is recovering from hip-replacement surgery. It's the place where, at 17, she was given her first camera by her grandmother and where she took her favorite personal photo of all time of 3 local teenagers in a boat--persons she never met because she was too shy to interact with others at the time. Now, 16 years later, she discovers that the nearby neighbor Charlie who was asked to make the cabin ready for them at the request of the owner is the older "boy" in the photo where he is lovingly looking at his younger brother with his girlfriend. Charlie is 35 now with a massive ego and the reputation of being the town charmer and a love-um-and-leave-um ladies man. They seem to be attracted to each other and are soon spending all day with each other while both are being very cautious and insisting that it is just a friendship. Each has a reason for resisting it going beyond that. Like all romance novels, in my opinion there are way too many lengthy descriptions of sexual attraction and semi-sexual interactions--things that other readers want but which I find are greatly distracting from the continuing development of the love story. But the love story itself is well written and a pleasure to read. I gave the book 4 1/4 stars out of 5.
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