Tuesday, June 17, 2025

The Sweet Life by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Series: Cape Cod Creamery #1
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Revell
Released: May 3, 2022
283 pages

About the Book:

Dawn Dixon can hardly believe she's on a groomless honeymoon on beautiful Cape Cod . . . with her mother. Sure, Marnie Dixon is good company, but Dawn was supposed to be here with Kevin, the love of her life (or so she thought).

Marnie Dixon needs some time away from the absolute realness of life as much as her jilted daughter does, and she's not about to let her only child suffer alone--even if Marnie herself had been doing precisely that for the past month.

Given the circumstances, maybe it was inevitable that Marnie would do something as rash as buy a run-down ice-cream shop in the town's tightly regulated historic district. After all, everything's better with ice cream.

Her exasperated daughter knows that she's the one who will have to clean up this mess. Even when her mother's impulsive real estate purchase brings Kevin back into her life, Dawn doesn't get her hopes up. Everyone knows that broken romances stay broken . . . don't they?

Welcome to a summer of sweet surprises on Cape Cod--a place where dreams just might come true.



My Rating & Thoughts:    

A Mother-Daughter story filled with characters I wanted to root for. If you love ice cream this will definitely have you craving some. Dawn and her mother are completely different personalities and approach life differently, but they are family and support one another. I related to Dawn so much. When Dawn's fiancé breaks up with her but gives her the honeymoon vacation she takes her mom to Cape Cod. This trip changes the direction of both of their lives. Dawn's mom, Marnie, decides to stay at the Cape and buys an ice cream shop. We follow the process of fixing up the shop and preparing to open for the season and the struggles faced along the way. The story deals with touches on various life challenges - the loss of a family member, cancer, and unexpected changes in life's direction. There was a character I didn't like at the beginning, but as the story progressed my opinion began to change and by the end I was okay with them. There was one character that really intrigued me and I am looking forward to the next in the series in hopes that we get to know more about them. Also there are some fun quotes shared at the beginning of each chapter.

(I purchased my copy of this book; opinions expressed 
in this review are my honest opinion and completely my own.)

 

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