When Violet moves to Swallow Beach, she inherits a small Victorian pier with an empty arcade perched on the end of it, and falls in love immediately. She wants nothing more than to rejuvenate it and make it grand again – but how?
When she meets hunky Calvin, inspiration strikes. What if she turned the arcade into an adult-themed arcade full of artisan shops?
Not everyone in the town is happy with the idea, but Violet loves her arcade and business begins to boom. But as tensions worsen and the heat between her and Calvin begins to grow, life at Swallow Beach becomes tricky. Is it worth staying to ride out the storm? And can Violet find her own happy ending before the swallows fly south for the winter?
Well, I’m going to start this review off by saying that there is absolutely nothing within the pages I’d call scandalous. Not one thing. It’s a very vanilla romance with very vanilla characters who have very vanilla problems. That doesn’t make it a bad book, however. Even though the title is somewhat misleading, it’s a decent read, if not somewhat dull through the majority of it.
But, since the word scandalous is right in the title, I will say that I had higher hopes for the story and the characters–particularly the main character and her love interest. Yes, I know that a scandal could be described in ways that are debatable–one gal’s scandal is certainly not the next, so take this with a grain of salt.
There is a bit of comedy within the story, which some of my blog readers know I love. So, it has that going for it. I may give this author another shot one day, but honestly I won’t go out of my way. I’ll recommend this book to some of my friends who read this sort of thing, though! Happily, too. It’s well written and the story is well formed–no big issues with anything other than that it just simply wasn’t for me.
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