I’m not done yet but so far this is my least favourite Robyn Carr story. There doesn’t seem to be a point to the story. I keep reading to find it. I’m half way through and now starting to skip the continual writing about “Chad” and how difficult their lives were with him. It seems that’s all this family’s life revolves around.
The continual reference to Covid is off-putting. We are still in this pandemic and reading it as if it was finished and past or getting constant reminders about it in the story is a big negative to the story.
I’ll finish the book but I won’t be giving anymore then 3 stars for this one sadly.
I finished the book and I stand with my earlier review. Unfortunately nothing changed. I was even surprised to turn the page and find it was finished. It didn't feel finished. It just all ended with an epilogue to get the final details done.

This was a great story! I love that the main character is a 50+ woman. There are not enough books with the main character(s) in my age period.
This was a heartwarming story about family and friendships and life. When I finished this story all too fast I immediately started with the next one!

I love Wyndham Beach #1 and was pleased to find #2! I enjoyed this continuation of the 3 friends and their families. The struggles and the happiness of women in their 50’s who have been connected to each other since their teen years. It is so very nice to read a story about women from my own age group. I was sad when the story came to the end and so very happy to find out that there will be a 3rd.
My only criticism of this story is there wasn’t as much of a story about the three friends as there was in book 1.

My first experience with this author. I enjoyed the writing style and will probably read more. Chandler Baker did a great job of conveying just how real life is for many mothers/wives and showing their frustration with getting the dads/husbands to understand.
Somewhere while listening to this story I forgot that it was categorized as a thriller. I was listening to it more as a women's fiction agreeing with a lot of the issues that were brought up and feeling lucky at times that I didn't experience the level of mom/wife unhappiness that the main character, Nora, did. There was a bit too much of the frustration part between Nora and her husband, Hayden, before the story moved on. At times I felt frustrated myself, but maybe that was the intent. Due to this it took way too long to get to the "thriller" part which is when I remembered that is what the story was suppose to be. I would say it is more a Women's Fiction Mystery.
I did figure out the "twist" and how the husbands became super dads, it was kind of obvious to me but I was interested in how that all related to the rest of the plot. How the fire and the neighbourhood dynamics played into that. The ending was not as thriller as I thought it was going to be and almost felt unbelievable. There were too many women involved for that to have worked.
I found the social media sections a bit long at times and fast forwarded through them. If I had been reading I would have skipped them completely.

I liked the story as an audiobook. I enjoyed listening to Alyson Ryan narrate. She read well as Nora and most of the other women. She has an easy to listen to tone to her voice.

Thanks very much to MacMillan Audio and NetGalley for giving the opportunity to listen to and review this book.