Finishing this book has been a long time coming. Not because I didn’t enjoy it, but because I always had to finish something for the podcast.
I started this book back in June or July and just picked it back up again on New Year’s Eve day. I had 150 pages left to go. I thought this will be the book that will allow me to finish my Goodreads Challenge. I had one book left to finish the challenge.
And, then I went out for New Year’s Eve and didn’t make it.
So then, finishing the book became the first thing I would cross off my bucket list for 2021.
And, YAY for me! I did it. I finished the book and crossed one thing off my bucket list.
2021 is going to be a great year.
Anyway, back to the book. Here is a quick summary:
Conley Hawkins is celebrating her last day as a journalist at The Atlanta Journal – Constitution, excited to start her dream job in D.C. at a digital investigative news service called Intelligentsia, only to get a text from her sister with the news that Intelligentsia has suspended publication due to lack of funds.
Out of a job, with no place to live, Conley has no choice but to head back home to Silver Bay, Florida to live with her grandmother until she can figure out what to do next.
Back in Silver Bay, Conley starts getting involved in the family newspaper – The Silver Bay Beacon – currently being run by her sister. She also meets back up with her high school crush who broke her heart many years ago.
And, small town drama doesn’t disappoint when a famous congressman crashes his vehicle late one night and winds up dead. The ambitious, investigative reporter that Conley is now has the opportunity to write the story of her life and write her way out of town to her next big job, leaving her family and crush behind once again.
There is a lot going on in this book. A lot of mini plot lines or mini mysteries to tidy up. So it kept me going. I liked the small town paper with the society pages written by the character Rowena Meigs who had been around forever and wrote as if she was living back in the 40s and 50s. Those were fun to read.
All in all a good choice – a light read with a little bit of meat to it.
-Kelley