The Seaside Café
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3.8 • 364 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Set on breathtaking Coates Island, off the coast of North Carolina, bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ new series debut brings together three book-loving women whose summer will offer a chance to rewrite their
own stories . . .
For three decades, the Seaside Café has served delicious meals to locals and island tourists alike. Kayana Johnson has moved home to help her brother run the café—and to nurse her wounds following a deep betrayal. Between cooking favorite recipes—creole chicken with buttermilk waffles, her grandmother’s famous mac and cheese—and spending time reading, Kayana is trying to embrace a life free of entanglements, while staying open to new connections . . .
After striking up conversation with two customers, Kayana suggests a summer book club. Each week, they’ll meet on the patio to talk about their favorite novels. But there are plot twists awaiting them in real life too. For schoolteacher Leah, this two-month sojourn is the first taste of freedom she’s had in her unhappy marriage. Cherie, filled with regret about her long-term affair with a married politician, discovers a powerful new passion. And Kayana finds a kindred spirit in a reclusive visitor who’s ready to make his true identity known, and fill this summer with new possibilities . . .
"Stunning coastal settings, heartfelt moments...this novel whisks readers away to the beaches of North Carolina...a tale of love, friendship, and new starts." - Woman's World on The Seaside Cafe
Customer Reviews
Great book
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I liked the characters, I liked the side characters, I liked the setting, & I liked the premise of the book. There were only minimal sexual encounters & they weren’t terribly explicit, which I appreciated.
I kept reading
This book was awful. The writing was repetitive, saying the same thing over and over. I don’t know how many times the author wrote how Graeme’s birth mother got pregnant in college by a married professor and he was adopted by two loving people that any kid would be grateful to have. It’s as if the author thought her readers all had dementia and would forget this part. Or that Kayana’s ex husband was a famous surgeon and they worked at the same hospital. There was something about the character, Graeme that gave me the creeps. I kept waiting for him to do something like kidnap Kayana. ChatGPT could have written it better.
Ben
Nigel
The pedal love third