Smuggler's Cove

 

Smuggler's Cove by Fern Michaels
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Well…while this book, Smuggler's Cove, ended up being a fun cozy as I had hoped, but I had a tough time trying to figure out what was going on through the first part of the book.

Madison and her brother Lincoln were raised in an elite setting. Money is nothing and they have everything they ever wanted. Don’t even realize there is any other lifestyle. Through it all, they have a mother that obviously loves them and a father who is distant and has no time for them. But his distant attitude is not even the beginning of the problem.

As you can see from what I remember, this story had a somewhat interesting plot. It is just that between the beginning of the book with Gwen and the time when young Madison must get away until she grows up and arrives in Smuggler's Cove, I was lost. I got one generation mixed up with another and that’s because the story jumps decades without any cohesiveness. It made the whole beginning seem rather disjunct.

Amongst all this were good characters, some that you love and some that you hate. A story that begins to grab you but not til halfway through. As much as I would really like to complain, I kept reading all the way to the end. I think the reason was the writing and the characters. I think I was just so discombobulated at the beginning that I really thought I didn’t like the book. First impressions can mean a lot.


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