Lisa Wingate
Fiction
Again, love the cover of this book. It’s just gorgeous. But the great cover doesn’t make up for all the crazy plot twists. Good lord, the plot twists! This book was like a soap opera, and not in a good way (I used to watch lots of daytime soaps, for the record).
Blue Moon Bay is the story of Heather Hampton, an architect from Seattle who flies down to her hometown, Moses Lake, Texas, to sell the family farmland. But when she gets there, she gets the feeling everyone, her mom, brother, uncles, even high school crush Blaine, is hiding something from her. And boy is she right.
I should’ve known from the start that this book would have slight religious undertones, considering the name of the town is Moses Lake. But it wasn’t too in-your-face, which I appreciated. I liked Heather. Watching her transform from a business-obsessed yuppie to an enoying-life-as-it-comes homebody was nice. My only other real problem with the book, besides all the twists and turns towards the end, was the whole we’re-keeping-secrets thing. Now, I know this is the plot of many books. A lot of my own books involve secrets and deceptions. However, Heather suspects right from the start that something’s fishy but it takes until practically the end of the book before her mom, brother, and Blaine start confessing. I just got annoyed by the countless scenes of Heather wanting to know what was going on and everybody refusing to tell her or making her feel like she was crazy for being so suspicious. It dragged the book out and made me impatient.
Lisa Wingate has written a few other books, so if you liked those, you’ll probably like this. But for anyone who gets annoyed when everyone in the main character's life is lying to her, Blue Moon Bay is not the book for you.
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