The Inn at Sunset Harbor Bundle: Books 1 and 2

By: Sophie Love

Narrated by: Elaine Wise

This audiobook is a bundle of two books: For Now and Forever and Forever and for Always in Sophie Loves’s The Inn at Sunset Harbor series. This bundle offers the first two books in one audiobook, for hours of listening.

In For Now and Forever, Emily Mitchell, 35, living and working in New York City, has struggled through a string of failed relationships. When her boyfriend of seven years takes her out for their long-awaited anniversary dinner, Emily is sure that this time will be different. That this time, she will finally get the ring. When he gives her a small bottle of perfume instead, Emily knows the time has come to break up with him and for her entire life to have a fresh start.

Reeling from her unsatisfying, high-pressure life, Emily decides she needs a change. She decides on a whim to drive to her father’s abandoned home on the coast of Maine - a sprawling, historic house where she’d spent magical summers as a child. But the house, long-neglected, is in dire need of repair, and the winter is no time to be in Maine.

Emily hasn’t been there in 20 years, when a tragic accident changed her sister’s life and shattered her family. Her parents divorced, her father disappeared, and Emily was never able to bring herself to step foot in that house again.

In Forever and for Always, 35-year-old Emily Mitchell has fled her job, apartment, and ex-boyfriend in New York City for her father's abandoned home on the coast of Maine, needing a change in her life.

Tapping her life savings to restore the historic home and with a budding relationship with the caretaker Daniel, Emily prepares to open the Inn at Sunset Harbor as Memorial Day comes. But all does not go as planned.

Emily learns quickly that she has no idea how to run a B&B. The house, despite her efforts, needs new, urgent repairs she cannot afford. Her covetous neighbor is still determined to make trouble for her. And worst of all, just as her relationship with Daniel is blossoming, she learns he has a secret. One which will change everything.

The Inn at Sunset Harbor is a dazzling new romance series that will make you laugh, cry, and listening late into the night. And it will make you fall in love with romance all over again.

©2019 Sophie Love (P)2020 Sophie Love

It’s good, but…

This is going to be difficult. Overall I’m enjoying the series. I’m going to continue to the third installment even though I have to spend credits to do so. In that respect, obviously I liked these first two books.

However, I especially found the second book to be very annoying. The main character is so whiny to the point of distraction. Her character comes across as very weak. I get that there are people like her in real life, but I don’t enjoy hearing about it, lol. She has so much bad luck and I don’t like how she handles the curve balls that are thrown her way. But I did get invested in the story so I’m going to continue. I really didn’t want to give it four stars but three didn’t seem fair either. I don’t like criticizing narrators but I’m having a hard time with this one. It’s possible she is the reason I don’t like the main character.