Meet Me at the Lake -

Carley Fortune

Berkley

2023

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-10: 0593438558

A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects, in this breathtaking new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After.

Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in the city. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didn't.

At thirty-two, Fern's life doesn't look at all how she once imagined it would. Instead of living in the city, Fern's back home, running her mother's lakeside resort―something she vowed never to do. The place is in disarray, her ex-boyfriend's the manager, and Fern doesn't know where to begin.

She needs a plan―a lifeline. To her surprise, it comes in the form of Will, who arrives nine years too late, with a suitcase in tow and an offer to help on his lips. Will may be the only person who understands what Fern's going through. But how could she possibly trust this expensive-suit wearing mirage who seems nothing like the young man she met all those years ago. Will is hiding something, and Fern's not sure she wants to know what it is.

But ten years ago, Will Baxter rescued Fern. Can she do the same for him?

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3 (Bom)

Pls no more selfish guys

Segundo livro que eu leio da autora, e mais uma vez, ela me fez ler o livro em 2 noites e ficar obcecada.

comecei amando esse aqui, apesar do romance ser extremamente irrealista, eu realmente me interessava pelos protagonistas, conhecer mais de cada um, e adorava ver os dois juntos. meu maior problema foi no final.

tudo se resolve de forma muito rápida. não teve um climax, e apesar de ter muito drama - inclusive, a parte do drama familiar ZzzZzz que preguiça! - a autora não pôs angústia em cenas que realmente precisavam ter.

o grande plot do livro e reencontro dos protagonistas não teve grandes emoções, e não gostei de muitas atitudes do protagonista mais para o final.

eu tenho pavor de livros - e relacionamentos - onde uma pessoa tem que implorar para entrar na vida da outra e fazer a outra se abrir para ela. Quando uma pessoa move um mundo inteiro enquanto o outro só assiste. Foi isso que aconteceu nesse. Fern u deserved better!

foi uma leitura gostosinha até certo ponto, mas tinha potencial para ter uma construção melhor.