Last Chance Motel (Audible Audio Edition) Abigail Keam Amy McFadden Worker Bee Press Books
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Eva Hanover hits 40 years of age...and she has it all a brilliant career, a gorgeous brownstone in Brooklyn, and a sexy husband.
Or, at least, she thought.
In the wink of an eye, Eva's husband leaves her. She loses the brownstone and throws away her career in a fit of pique. With only the clothes on her back, she flees New York for the sunnier climate of Key Largo.
As Eva puts it, her marriage went south, and so does she.
Stuck in Key Largo, it is sink or swim for the devastated Eva. Starting over at 40 is hard for anyone, but Eva wonders if she can. Step by step she makes her way back to happiness and possibly finds love again.
Last Chance Motel (Audible Audio Edition) Abigail Keam Amy McFadden Worker Bee Press Books
Last Chance Motel is entertaining but it's not a fully fleshed out story and I found myself questioning the author's intent. Was she in a hurry, did she mean to rush over that last scene, leaving us hanging, what about veracity?In the Josiah Reynolds Death By Honeybee series, Abigail Keam is a top notch writer, the stories are rich, and layered with figurative language, and there are few, if any, typos. Yes, I really do highlight authors' typos. I'm that kind of reader.
Some weak-kneed writing gave me pause:
I have issues with unnecessary apostrophes when lower case nouns and objects need to possessively own things. Usually it's a sign of writer weakness. The motel's logo? Motel logo is fine. The hotel's property? (Insert raspberry sound here). No apostrophe is needed, but a sentence overhaul would be better.
If Eva's new love interest, Mike is such a raging diabetic, why on earth is he eating chocolate cake and drinking wine?
His kiss...was lightening fast... Really it was in utero? How placental. LIGHTNING please, fergawdsakes.
Baby cat? Everyone knows what a kitten is. BTW, they don't EAT milk. Drink, yes.
Character's veracity is called into question when Eva leaves the wet kitten to take a shower and change her clothes first? Wow, her priorities are not in order. Most people would dry off a shivering kitten first, then feed it, not take a shower first. So, when all is said and done, now she sleeps with a still-wet kitten? Ohh-kay. No way it fluff-dried during a storm, not with that humidity.
Explanation of a john boat would be nice. I got to thinking of toilets, or heads with open hatches. Wrong image.
Again, a character's veracity is called to question: when Mike saves Eva from the raging storm, he changes her clothes and puts her to bed without treating her head wound or looking at her lacerated bleeding foot which is wrapped in a garbage bag? But he gives himself a shot of insulin. What about all that blood? C'mon Abigail, flesh out the story more....don't be slovenly. Don't rush over scenes. This story reads like a draft and it needs to go back to the writers' workshop team.
That said, I loved the basic storyline, Eva's rebirth, she's a great new character. I loved the story of the rescued manatee, the lap iguana, the flamingo sign, meeting the locals of Key Largo (sounds like Abigail visited the Sundowner Cafe—love those rolling tarpons). BTW, speaking of veracity, there is no mention of the clouds of mangrove mosquitos waiting for fresh blood, and they are particularly fierce in Key Largo. Suggest the author also watch the classic movie, Key Largo, for more background.
Last Chance Motel is a darned sight better than most of the romantic novels that populate Amazon's low rent Kindle space. But I expected more. As a series, it has great potential, if the author takes the time to flesh out her stories.
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Last Chance Motel (Audible Audio Edition) Abigail Keam Amy McFadden Worker Bee Press Books Reviews
I needed a light read after consuming so many serious and rather depressing books lately, and "Last Chance Motel" was just the thing to lighten the mental load for a while! Eva's marriage ended suddenly after the discovery that her husband had found a younger woman, and that the woman was pregnant. The divorce was acrimonious, but she did get her fair share of the valuable restored Brooklyn brownstone that they had both worked so hard on for years. Impulsively, while on a short vacation to the Florida Keys, Eva decides to buy a decrepit, vacant motel that had been owned by the same family for many years. The motel needs so much work that she soon fears she wouldn't be able to afford the rebuilding work required. Along comes a handsome, single contractor, Mike, who has great skills and ideas, and wants to help her realize her dream of restoring all of the period charm of the Last Chance Motel. But Mike has his own baggage; recently widowed with a young daughter to support, he is broke, lives with his mother, and also deals with the side effects of diabetes.
Just as Eva starts to think that she could let her working relationship with Mike start to develop into something more intimate, her husband comes back into the picture, humbled and apologetic, and wishing to start over. Though it's difficult to forgive him, Eva can't turn her back on the many years they had together.
Usually romance stories have a rather predictable story line and ending, but this one had enough drama and twists and turns to keep me interested right up until the end. It definitely fit the bill as a pleasant summer read.
It started out fine, then the author must have gotten tired and just crammed in a bunch of things after the first quarter. An editor should have told her to clean up her act )
This is a story about Eva, a successful career woman who is unexpectedly dumped by her cheating husband. Devastated, she escapes the scene of their life together and goes to Florida. She buys a run down family motel and as she restores it, she restores herself. She does find love again with Mike, the contractor, but it develops slowly as they learn to trust each other.
I find it difficult sometimes to categorize books so I’ve decided to include my own rating system along with the stars. This book falls in the E for Entertainment box. Meaning I want to be distracted and entertained for a few hours of reading. I don’t want to have to think or learn something new. I just want to get lost in a story and it doesn’t necessarily have to be a great story – just keep my interest until the end. This book did that. It was an easy, fun, if somewhat predictable read.
The story starts out interesting enough. The protagonist (Eva), is dumped by her husband. After her divorce she sets off to find herself and get over her depression. Unfortunately, the plotline quickly becomes stilted and uninteresting, and the narrative is choppy and mundane. It's filled with unnecessary and uninteresting detail that does nothing to move the plot. To name a few we get to go on a car buying trip, and read Eva's long to-do list. I gave it a chance making it to the 15th chapter then just gave up.
Last Chance Motel is entertaining but it's not a fully fleshed out story and I found myself questioning the author's intent. Was she in a hurry, did she mean to rush over that last scene, leaving us hanging, what about veracity?
In the Josiah Reynolds Death By Honeybee series, Abigail Keam is a top notch writer, the stories are rich, and layered with figurative language, and there are few, if any, typos. Yes, I really do highlight authors' typos. I'm that kind of reader.
Some weak-kneed writing gave me pause
I have issues with unnecessary apostrophes when lower case nouns and objects need to possessively own things. Usually it's a sign of writer weakness. The motel's logo? Motel logo is fine. The hotel's property? (Insert raspberry sound here). No apostrophe is needed, but a sentence overhaul would be better.
If Eva's new love interest, Mike is such a raging diabetic, why on earth is he eating chocolate cake and drinking wine?
His kiss...was lightening fast... Really it was in utero? How placental. LIGHTNING please, fergawdsakes.
Baby cat? Everyone knows what a kitten is. BTW, they don't EAT milk. Drink, yes.
Character's veracity is called into question when Eva leaves the wet kitten to take a shower and change her clothes first? Wow, her priorities are not in order. Most people would dry off a shivering kitten first, then feed it, not take a shower first. So, when all is said and done, now she sleeps with a still-wet kitten? Ohh-kay. No way it fluff-dried during a storm, not with that humidity.
Explanation of a john boat would be nice. I got to thinking of toilets, or heads with open hatches. Wrong image.
Again, a character's veracity is called to question when Mike saves Eva from the raging storm, he changes her clothes and puts her to bed without treating her head wound or looking at her lacerated bleeding foot which is wrapped in a garbage bag? But he gives himself a shot of insulin. What about all that blood? C'mon Abigail, flesh out the story more....don't be slovenly. Don't rush over scenes. This story reads like a draft and it needs to go back to the writers' workshop team.
That said, I loved the basic storyline, Eva's rebirth, she's a great new character. I loved the story of the rescued manatee, the lap iguana, the flamingo sign, meeting the locals of Key Largo (sounds like Abigail visited the Sundowner Cafe—love those rolling tarpons). BTW, speaking of veracity, there is no mention of the clouds of mangrove mosquitos waiting for fresh blood, and they are particularly fierce in Key Largo. Suggest the author also watch the classic movie, Key Largo, for more background.
Last Chance Motel is a darned sight better than most of the romantic novels that populate 's low rent space. But I expected more. As a series, it has great potential, if the author takes the time to flesh out her stories.
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