{"id":12458,"date":"2022-02-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12458"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:51:15","slug":"small-town-hearts-dont-fall-for-a-summer-boy-by-lillie-vale-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12458","title":{"rendered":"SMALL TOWN HEARTS, don’t fall for a summer boy! by Lillie Vale (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Future plans – check
Summer to enjoy – check
Romantic complications – ohhhh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Babe is content to enjoy the summer after graduation, living in the lighthouse<\/a> and managing Busy’s coffeehouse as tourist season in their little Maine coastal town begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even knowing that her two best friends will leave for college is okay (soon she’ll tell them she’s staying at Busy’s\u2026 soon) – until Penny dumps Chad who decides to kiss Babe, then Penny finds out and takes Chad back, freezing her out of their lifetime friendship!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add to that Babe’s ex-girlfriend Elodie (still not out) back from college and the almost-college guy Levi (already a famous artist!) who’s renting Mom’s house while she’s working away, both here for the summer art residency (small, small world in this small, small town).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nice to show Levi around, watch him sketch and learn to appreciate life at the shore and her baking skills (always experimenting for the coffeehouse)\u2026 and her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when the beach picnics and blueberry picking<\/a> and the residency are over, he’ll leave for art college (so say his parents and agent), and Babe is going to stay here, baking and managing Busy’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer ends with the artists’ exhibition and the town’s sandcastle building contest – what else will end?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Never fall for a summer boy” – local wisdom is rarely wrong, but maybe this time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This debut novel softly celebrates becoming yourself and being yourself in the face of others’ expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s your favorite summer out-of-town memory?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Small Town Hearts \/ Lillie Vale. Swoon Reads, 2019. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Personal collection; cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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