Title: Landslide
Series: South Beach Connection #1
Author: A.R. Hadley
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: 1 February 2018
One summer has the power to change everything.
One night, one choice, can alter life’s trajectory — cause the heart’s debris to slip and slide down the mountain.
After graduating college, rising photographer Annie Baxter relocates to South Beach, Florida.
A new start.
ONE CHOICE.
A chance to leave behind her anxiety, her grief, and prepare her photographs for display in an art gallery. Annie is determined to mend her heart in the sand and breathe, commune with the stars and beach and old friends.
Then Cal Prescott steps in front of her lens — a man twenty years her senior. An understated, sexy puzzle who may not wish to be solved. Cal is quiet. Strong. Eyes like the tides. Coming in, going out. Pulling her under.
They meet at a party.
ONE NIGHT.
The chemistry cannot be denied.
But they only have the summer.
ONE SUMMER.
One unforgettable connection.
But every June, July, and August must come to an end.
This is the first book in the South Beach Connection
trilogy.
After suffering a painful loss so deep and from this wanting
to make a start on her career as a photographer, Annie moves to South Beach.
She goes to stay with her beloved Maggie and John who have been more like her
parents than her own could ever be, from a young age.
When attending a party with Maggie and John, she meets the
enigmatic stare across the room from Cal, an old friend of John’s from way
back. Once Annie and Cal get to talk with each other, they both feel the strong
attraction to one another. Despite the twenty year age gap they know this is
the start of something for them both.
The blurb for this one really caught my eye and I was eager
to read as I love a good age gap romance trope. Although I liked both Annie and
Cal I found it hard to connect to their characters emotionally.
The writing was overly descriptive for me personally and the
emotion was lost amongst all the filler paragraphs. I found myself skipping
pages and pages in order to get to the crux of the storyline and the
relationship between Annie and Cal.
When I picked this up to read I was unaware it would end on
a cliff hanger and there would be no HEA. I am not sure what is next for this
summer romance and if it would become more but I feel it could have all been
told in one book if the extra content had been stripped back. For me less is so
much more.
Overall I liked the plotline and the characters but there
was a lack of emotional and connection for me. It was more of a ‘tell’ than a ‘feel’
read. For me therefore this is a three star rating – OK but could have been so
much more.
*ARC kindly provided by the author to Foxylutely Books
A.R. Hadley writes imperfectly perfect sentences by the light of her iPhone.
She loves her husband. Chocolate. Her children.
And Cary Grant.
She annoys those darling little children by quoting lines from Back to the Future, but despite her knowledge of eighties and nineties pop culture, she was actually meant to live alongside the Lost Generation after the Great War and write a mediocre novel while drinking absinthe with Hemingway. Instead, find her sipping sweet tea with extra lemons on her porch as she weaves fictional tales of love and angst amid reality.
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