Three Sisters Island On a Coastal Breeze, Book 2, (Paperback)

If you haven't spent a summer on the island yet, pick up this book and go there now!\n\nOn a Coastal Breeze takes place the summer following On a Summer Tide, and this volume focuses mainly on Maddie. She is now a certified, practicing therapist, eager to help people and operate a profitable business. I found that I especially liked her. She is grounded in Scripture, and has the knowledge and winsome personality to help people, through her marriage and family practice. She is the go-to person when you need a listening ear. She can also be the no-nonsense purveyor of truth. But reading through, it happened that she and each of the main characters had problems that need to be confronted. That's what kept the book so believable-everyone was dealing with something.\n\nOne thing I love about reading this author's books is the way I am drawn in by a relaxed, comfortable writing style. It's like going home. In this case, it's going home to a beautiful island with all of its wonderful and quirky characters. This novel can be read as a stand-alone, but it's best if it is read as a sequel to On a Summer Tide.\n\nIf you're looking for a great summertime read, this is it! Readers of inspirational contemporary romance and women's fiction will certainly enjoy this book.\n\nI received a copy of this book for m the publisher, Revell, through Celebrate Lit, for review purposes. The thoughts expressed here are my own.

"If you had no fear of death, then that vague dread that constantly hovered - it could be vanquished. Not just managed or discounted, but eliminated. Overcome. Conquered. Defeated." Suzanne Woods Fisher is a gifted storyteller with a voice that wraps around your reader heart to deliver heartbreaks, showers of grace and mercy, and tender reconciliation. This is book 2 in the Three Sisters Island series, and, though it could be read as a stand-alone, it's better read after Cam and Seth's story in On a Summer Tide so you're better acquainted with the minor characters of the island who truly make the story more lively. Filled with family tension, misunderstandings, issues of fear and anxiety, and faith lessons of facing life's challenges head-on, the story will have you falling in love with the island and its inhabitants while walking with them in their daily lives on a remote island off the coast of Maine. This story focuses on Maddie, the middle sister who starts a counseling/therapy center on the island. She's the glue that keeps the Grayson family together and works overtime with her sisters and father to help them become more self-aware. The islanders call Rick to be their very first pastor and he sweeps everyone off their feet but there's a lot of history between Maddie and Rick which come out in flashbacks. Misunderstandings and secrets swirl around all the Graysons and Rick. All the four Graysons (Paul the father, Cam the oldest, Maddie, and Blaine the youngest) have a voice in this story, which is fun because more pieces of all four of their lives come out in each book. This book delved deeper into the characters' thoughts, motives, fears, and dreams. What will the third book hold? I can't wait for Blaine's story! Fans of well-written contemporary romance will thoroughly enjoy this book and the series. I received a copy of the book from Revell via Celebrate Lit Tours and was under no obligation to post a positive review. All comments and opinions are solely my own.