Regan has been busy trying to tick everything off her lottery wish list: she’s started her own business, helped a worthy cause, and even sorted out a new home – albeit a temporary one. But she still has a couple of items to check off – including get a hot new boyfriend, and she knows justwhere to find one…
Will Regan and Charlie get their happy ending and sail off into the sunset – or does fate have other ideas?
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Many thanks to Avon Books via NetGalley for my copy of Meet Me at Pebble Beach part four Seas the Day to review and to Sharon for having my review on the blog.
Seas the Day is the final instalment in what has been an absolute cracker of a series from Bella Osborne Meet Me at Pebble Beach. This has to be one of my favourite stories from this author and I loved every minute of it from start to finish. Seas the Day provided us with the perfect ending, it tied up all the lose ends, secrets were finally uncovered and answers were supplied to the many questions that had arisen over the course of the series. Part three ended on a cliffhanger and I have to say Bella Osborne has excelled at those jaw dropping moments quietly slipped in at the end of each part which make you sit up in shock and more than keen to return to find out what is actually going on and will the characters be able if at all find their happy ending?
Bernice, manager of the market, has just received some earth shattering news and to be honest I never saw that connection coming but it showed the reader she has more of a softer side than she has shown in the past. That deep underneath her gruff behaviour and stern manner she does have a heart and what she has heard has deeply affected her. The news that Bernice receives certainly puts herself and our main character on the same page as Regan got answers to something that has been worrying away at her for some time. I think Regan got closure and resolution to this aspect of the story and she knows that the lively challenge that she has taken on was the right thing to do. She is aware that she is now doing more than just a favour for someone and she views things in a new light and perspective.
Regan certainly has been through the mill since we first met her but I love that she has turned misfortune and a rotten joke into something positive and life changing in a good way. She really had reached rock bottom and in the beginning I saw no way in which she could turn things around without getting into a heap of trouble but through her wits, ingenuity and some new friends she is starting to make a success of her market stall selling unusual jams and chutneys. By ticking off things on her lottery wish list Regan had an aim and she didn't want to be know as a failure and the girl who believed she had won the lotto only to come crashing back down to earth with a bang when she realised what a cruel joke had been played on her. I still can't over that Alex, her former colleague, could have been so mean. Mentally I wouldn't have been able to cope with such a cruel joke being played on me.
Regan's best friend Cleo has arrived back from her stint in Japan with a new found attitude. I was surprised that she wasn't too upset that Regan had been staying in her studio but I suppose she had other things on her mind. Honestly her storyline in the last part kind of came out of nowhere and not that I have anything wrong at all with the subject matter I just felt it was thrown in there with no warning and I thought it deserved a bit more attention. Given how short this last part was there wasn't room for this and I would have loved a little more in-depth exploration of it. That is the only very minor issue I have had with this series as a whole because really I have thoroughly enjoyed it and I could sense that the author really enjoyed writing it too and weaving all the little sub-plots together to make one great big fabulous story.
I loved the super sleuth in Regan emerging and she really stepped up to the plate to find out things which had been bugging her for quite some time. I had had my suspicions regarding her Dad for quite some time and I was proven right to a certain extent. Her reaction to what she discovered was just so lovely and accepting and I am glad she showed no judgement or misunderstanding of the situation. But what I really wanted to know was how things would work out with fire-fighter Charlie given what a great friendship had developed. But there was a fine and delicate line to be walked and I could only see things going in one direction.
As I got nearer to the end there was still no resolution and I thought is this going to be it haven given us so many cliffhangers and then just the most brilliant resolutions instead of things tapering off leaving the reader unsatisfied were we going to reach the end and I would be so frustrated? I think you'll have to read this wonderful book for yourself and see what I am talking about to decide whether the ending was perfect or not. I envy those readers you can read Meet Me at Pebble Beach all in one go as it is a real page turner but at the same I loved being left hanging and always wanting more. It's a great summer read that is perfect for these glorious sunny days that we are having.
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