Summer Secrets

I remember trying to read this book a couple times over a decade ago and only being able to make it halfway through. For years I was thinking I should just read the whole dang thing and I finally accepted the challenge. Overall there's nothing entirely special about this read. It's light, it's cute, it's cheeky. It's like a sailing rom com you'd see on Hallmark or some cheap Netflix original. The mystery aspect to it is essential to making this read enjoyable, since I could not read an entire book just on the “will they/won't they” romance aspect from the characters. And the humor... let's just say it's as funny as one of those rom coms I mentioned earlier. It's similar to an Emily Giffin novel but the cheese is turned way up to 11 (no disrespect to Giffin; she's the queen of this type of book genre). Also I think the reason why I couldn't finish this book before is that it is way too stretched out. This book could've easily had a third cut out of it and it would still remain the same read. Overall this was a kind of enjoyable and airy read that's as light as the sea breeze. I just read it mainly to finish this mental challenge of mine, not so much to be entertained.