What Happens at the Lake

Vi Keeland
• 2024

When life took an unexpected turn, I decided to get out of New York for a while. What better place to go than the idyllic small town my father spoke about so fondly when I was growing up? Laurel Lake ...held the title America’s Friendliest Town for seventeen years running, and friendly was just what I needed right now. Unfortunately, friendly wasn’t the welcome I got when I arrived. Instead, I got Fox Cassidy. My tall, dark, and burly neighbor, who grunted at me instead of saying hello. Okay, so I might’ve had his mailbox in my hands the first time we met. And it might’ve been a little crushed after removing it from under my tire. And I might’ve needed his help breaking into the place I was staying in after the key broke off in the lock. But still…he didn’t have to be so grumpy. As time went on though, I started to notice things about Fox other than his glares. Like how he watched me when he thought I wasn’t looking, or how fire ignited in his eyes whenever we bickered. Though I was in Laurel Lake to escape my problems, not create new ones. And getting involved with a man like Fox screamed trouble, even if he was gorgeous and unlike any man I’d ever met. But alas, problem seemed to be my middle name this year. So why not have some fun while I was here for the summer? It seemed like a good plan. At least until it was time to go home… They say what happens at the lake, stays at the lake. But it’s not so easy to walk away when what stays behind…is your heart.
Viac

Sumár recenzie
Po rozchode sa Josie utiahne do otcovho rodného mestečka Laurel Lake, kde po nehode stretne protivného suseda Foxa Cassidyho a z nepriateľstva medzi nimi postupne vyrastie príťažlivosť. Kniha je ľahký romantický príbeh, ktorý sa číta sám a hodí sa na leto. Recenzentka oceňuje sympatickú chémiu medzi postavami a vtipné hašterenie, no vytýka, že autorka sa nedostatočne venovala hlbšiemu spracovaniu minulosti a citového života postáv, takže príbeh pôsobí príliš jednoducho a čitateľ sa k postavám nepripútava.

Sumár recenzie
Keď Josie opustí New York a nasťahuje sa do zdedeného domu pri jazere v priateľskom mestečku Laurel Lake, stretne nevrlého, no neodolateľného suseda Foxa. Po počiatočných trablech (poškodená poštová schránka, zlomený kľúč) sa medzi nimi rozvíja silná chémia, ktorá vedie z nevraživosti k romantickému zapleteniu. Kniha od Vi Keelandovej (preklad: Andrea Vargovčíková) je popisovaná ako nekomplikovaná oddychovka plná humoru, vtipných dialógov a príjemného letného prostredia.

When life took an unexpected turn, I decided to get out of New York for a while. What better place to go than the idyllic small town my father spoke about so fondly when I was growing up? Laurel Lake held the title America’s Friendliest Town for seventeen years running, and friendly was just what I needed right now.

Unfortunately, friendly wasn’t the welcome I got when I arrived.

Instead, I got Fox Cassidy. My tall, dark, and burly neighbor, who grunted at me instead of saying hello.

Okay, so I might’ve had his mailbox in my hands the first time we met. And it might’ve been a little crushed after removing it from under my tire. And I might’ve needed his help breaking into the place I was staying in after the key broke off in the lock. But still…he didn’t have to be so grumpy.

As time went on though, I started to notice things about Fox other than his glares. Like how he watched me when he thought I wasn’t looking, or how fire ignited in his eyes whenever we bickered. Though I was in Laurel Lake to escape my problems, not create new ones. And getting involved with a man like Fox screamed trouble, even if he was gorgeous and unlike any man I’d ever met.

But alas, problem seemed to be my middle name this year. So why not have some fun while I was here for the summer? It seemed like a good plan. At least until it was time to go home…

They say what happens at the lake, stays at the lake. But it’s not so easy to walk away when what stays behind…is your heart.