Juniper Isle: A Kayla Hicks Book Review
What if you awoke on a girl's getaway... and found a dead body in your garage? What if your best friend told you not to call the police?
What is Juniper Isle by Ava Roberts about?
A getaway to a lush vacation rental with her dearest friend, Camilla, is just what Abby needs after a tough breakup.
Back on the island where Abby spent her childhood, she comes face-to-face with her first love, Micah, on the weekend before his wedding to another woman. Abby finds herself agreeing to attend the ceremony. But not everyone wants her there. Threatening notes appear. Personal items are stolen from her room. Soon, Micah's invasive, dysfunctional family is making her life miserable, and a long-buried scandal resurfaces.
As Abby realizes it may have been a mistake to return to the island, a hurricane approaches, and half of the wedding party gets trapped at Abby’s house during the storm. As wind and rain hammer the house, tempers flare, secrets are revealed, and Abby learns that danger comes from the least expected place.
And by morning, one of them is dead.
My Review:
Abby is just another woman who has her dreams dashed when she suspects her fiancé is having an affair. Scooting back to a favorite vacation spot of her childhood with her best friend for a weekend to clear her head, she runs into her first love, Micah, who is about to get married.
As a rush of feelings come back, Abby questions herself and how she let her life go the way it did. But it didn't help that Micah's sister drowned after borrowing Abby's family boat. That was the nail in the coffin for Micah and Abby's relationship.
But seeing Micah and feeling these old feelings, she finds herself attending his wedding, happening that weekend, and helping his fiancé with her photo shoot.
But things get out of control quickly leading to a series of events that will change Abby's life forever.
Roberts does a phenomenal job of throwing twist after twist at the reader. Doing a fabulous job of painting a clear picture that we don't truly know anyone as well as we think we do.
Just when I thought I'd figured out what was going to happen, something new happened making me second guess everything once again.
Each character was mysterious enough to lead the reader to think anyone was in on the betrayal against Abby making for an interesting read.
A big 5-star rating from me.
Get it here: Juniper Isle