74 Seaside Avenue (Cedar Cove, Book 7)
by Debbie Macomber
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Book Reviews of 74 Seaside Avenue (Cedar Cove, Book 7)
Book Review: The Soap Opera Continues With Seventh Cedar Cove Book
Summary: 5 Stars
I love Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove series. Reading each book is like sitting down to cake and coffee with friends and catching up on the town gossip. Debbie has created an idyllic little town and peopled it with people you can come to truly care about. Get involved with their problems, agonize over their dilemmas, and delight in their triumphs as their most intimate stories captivate your imagination.
The home of Teri and Bobby Polgar is the focal point of this addition to the series. As with all Cedar Cove books, the home is pictured on the cover, and Debbie tells us in her intro that this particular home just happens to be the one she shares with her real-life hubby.
The characters you have grown to love in previous entries are all moving forward. Olivia and Jack face a problem they never anticipated, Grace adjusts to married life and deals with her embarrassing past, Maryellen gets great news, Rachel finds herself in a troubling triangle, Sheriff Troy Davis reacquaints himself with a past love his daughter will not abide, and Linnette McAfee takes her broken heart and runs away. A dangerous kidnapping involves several residents and a cliffhanger ending sets the stage for Dave and Emily Flemming to share their story at 8 Sandpiper Way with readers in September, 2008.
If you like light romances with surprising twists and mysterious turns, you'll be charmed by this series and relish each new peek into the lives of the people of Cedar Cove.
Book Review: It's time to move on!
Summary: 3 Stars
I loved the four first books in the Cedar Cove series. The fifth and sixth started to become a tiny bit repetitive and this seventh felt exactly that.
A lot of space - and time - is used to get up to date with the characters and their previous doings, which makes for a lot of repetition. I simply think the series should be based on reading the books in correct order; it seems impossible and somewhat amputated, in spite of the catching up, to start with, as in this last case, book 7!
Debbie Macomber writes well. Both the invention of small town Cedar Cove and the many interesting characters, who after a while seem almost like old friends, is excellent. I only think this series has gone on for long enough. Not only the up to date information in this book, but also further developments in peoples' lives, seemed repetitive. As if one had read it all before.
Many readers call the Cedar Cove series a soap opera. I think it's much above that, but at this point I may agree somewhat. A true sign of soap operas is that after a substantial number of episodes, they seem to go back to the beginning and start all over again.
Book 7 left many questions unanswered, but I'm not overly keen for the answers. Linnette and Pete? Probably. A new baby for Megan? Probably. Will Troy get his Faith in the end? Probably. And so on.
It's been an enjoyable stay in idyllic Cedar Cove but by now I'm ready to move on.
Book Review: fun small town tale
Summary: 4 Stars
In Cedar Cove, Washington, international chess grandmaster champion Bobby Polgar takes the threats seriously. He drops out of a tournament in which he is one of the favorites for fear that someone will kill his "queen", his beloved wife Teri if he plays. Teri knows something is not right as she feels she is the queen Bobby is protecting but from what, who and why remain unknown to her. At the same time that Bobby hovers all over his spouse, her sister Christie seems to want nothing to do with her.
Meanwhile other townsfolk struggle with issues. Widower Sheriff Troy Davis feels his heart ripping apart as he believes he must choose between his daughter's needs and an attraction. Her heart broken; Linnette McAfee leaves Cedar Cove; while Rachel has become involved in a romantic triangle.
Fans of this Puget Sound small town series will enjoy the latest entry as the locals face personal crisis with the chess king being checkmated as the prime theme. Newcomers will have no major adjustment to the goings-on as this and its six street predecessors stand alone while telling the continue tales of Cedar Cove.
Harriet Klausner
Book Review: The Cedar Cove saga continues
Summary: 4 Stars
The characters from Cedar Cove return like old friends. This book centers around Teri and her chess-playing husband, Bobby. Their story is not as compelling as some of the others, because they seem to be an unlikely couple who have very little in common, but the sub-plots are interesting. Rachel has two men interested in her and she has a hard time deciding which one she really loves. Troy Davis meets up with an old friend, but he's afraid to tell his daughter who disappoves of him dating so soon after the death of his wife. Linnette leaves town with a broken heart after Cal falls in love with someone else. Author Debbie Macomber spins these separate stories into an interesting whole and manages to set up intriguing situations for her next book in the series. One other complaint I have about this book is that natural disasters and diseases are thrown into the plot just to encourage some of the romances, and sometimes the situations seem forced and unrealistic. Other than that, the book is a fast read and it catches readers up on the lives of fictional people whom they've come to enjoy.Book Review: Debbie Delivers Again !
Summary: 5 Stars
If you love books that have a folksy, down home, what's happening in the neighborhood kind of feeling, then you'll love this series, including the newest addition - #7.
Honestly, Debbie writes just as if you were sitting there sharing a coffee and she was filling you in on all the happenings in Cedar Cove.
I don't know how she creates the intimacy she does, but honestly, you feel like one of the locals just catching up on the news.
And there's a lot of good news. The local hairdresser, on her own too long, unintentionally snags the wealthy successful International chess champion, and the sweet girl-next-door finally gives up on Cedar Cove and its men and heads back to the city, leaving her family still on the island. The turns and twists that these girls experience and all the other convolutions that occur in Cedar Cove are shared in such a comfortable, easy way that you feel like you're sitting in the beauty shop hearing it all face to face.
Debbie does a great job as usual on this entertaining book !