My Review
Just for the Summer is a beach read about two very different women. Ginny Masters has a high pressure job managing a boutique hotel in Seattle. Jacqueline Potter manages her grandfather's rustic fishing lodge in Idaho. Both are unhappy with their lives and sign up at a job swap site. They swap jobs for the summer - and find a new perspective on life as a result.
I wanted to read this novel because I enjoy Melody Carlson's books. They never disappoint!
Ginny is a very sympathetic character, hard working and sincere. She learns to relax and enjoy life more when she goes to work at the fishing lodge that needs a lot of freshening up and new energy. She also meets a handsome river guide and romantic sparks fly! Jacqueline is much less sympathetic. She is someone who loves the finer things in life and she has not wanted to really work for those things in the past. She is challenged when she goes to work in Seattle at the always busy hotel - with a very demanding boss. She also encounters a possible romantic match.
This was a fun novel and a fast read. It would be perfect for a weekend read or as a true beach read.
Book Synopsis
If you lived in a different place and had a different job, couldn't you have a different life?
Ginny Masters manages a popular boutique hotel in Seattle and manages it with aplomb. But the daily challenges and irritations of a fast-paced job and a demanding boss are starting to get to her.
Jacqueline Potter manages her grandfather's fishing lodge in Idaho because it was the only job she could find after graduating with her hospitality degree. She's grateful for the work but longs for a more sophisticated and cosmopolitan life she's just not going to find in this backwoods town.
The solution to both their problems seems obvious. Just for the summer, they'll swap jobs and lifestyles--and even love interests. But they'll soon find that there's more to finding happiness than just switching up the scenery.
Ginny Masters manages a popular boutique hotel in Seattle and manages it with aplomb. But the daily challenges and irritations of a fast-paced job and a demanding boss are starting to get to her.
Jacqueline Potter manages her grandfather's fishing lodge in Idaho because it was the only job she could find after graduating with her hospitality degree. She's grateful for the work but longs for a more sophisticated and cosmopolitan life she's just not going to find in this backwoods town.
The solution to both their problems seems obvious. Just for the summer, they'll swap jobs and lifestyles--and even love interests. But they'll soon find that there's more to finding happiness than just switching up the scenery.
Author Bio
Melody Carlson is the award-winning author of more than 250 books with sales of more than 7.5 million, including many bestselling Christmas novellas, young adult titles, and contemporary romances. She received a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, her novel All Summer Long has been made into a Hallmark movie, and the movie based on her novel The Happy Camper premiered on UPtv in 2023. She and her husband live in central Oregon. Learn more at MelodyCarlson.com.
