Title: Lilac Lane
Author: Sherryl Woods
Series: Chesapeake Shores #14
Rating Out of 5: 4 (Really good read!)
My Bookshelves: Contemporary, Contemporary romance
Pace: Slow
Format: Novel
Year: 2017
This was a really nice, sweet and peaceful ending to the Chesapeake Shores series. Honestly, I did get to a bit of a point with the last few books that I started losing interest. Which is why it took me a little while to finish off this series. Not because the books weren’t still enjoyable. But it’s a romance series that features the O’Briens, and it started to have people so distantly connected to them that you started to lose sight of the main family…
Having said that, this is still a romance filled with the O’Briens and their meddling ways. Which, of course is seriously enjoyable and kind of hilarious. I mean, it’s literally a whole family (four generations) of meddling matchmakers. They might have everyone’s best interests at heart, but man are the manipulations and things that they push for kind of intense. It’s fun to read about and made me laugh. But kind of the exact thing that would drive me up the bloody wall.
This is a really easy read, again, I found myself very connected to the O’Briens, and although Kiera is distantly related to them, I just wasn’t as invested in her happily ever after moment. In fact, it was when the father-daughter relationship between Deanne and Bryan started to come to light that I got more invested in this story. I liked the romance. But it was most definitely the parent-child relationship which drove my need to finish this novel.
Admittedly, I thought that Kiera was going to be a much tougher battle to find her happily ever after. And I was expecting a whole lot more fireworks. On the one hand, I like that she wasn’t and that happily ever after was so easily achieved. On the other, it was just so not what I was expecting. And I really enjoy feisty women who like to fight and get in their own damn way!!!
For as much as this was probably my least favourite Chesapeake Shores book, it was a nice way to round out the series. You can see that everyone in the adult generations is content and have found their happily ever after. And you don’t necessarily feel like you need anything more in this. Everyone has come full circle and you can cheerily wave goodbye to the happy, sleepy town.
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