Firefly Beach

avid reader

I liked this book a lot. I was a great book on the relationships of mothers, daughters and sisters. Good, fast read.

A younger reader, reviwer

I LOVE THIS BOOK! I dont read that much, but I was asked by my parents to do so. I picked up this book and never could put it down. Now I also love it because I love love stories with mystery and so much more tied in. Its modern but with a twist. If you are on the line between getting it and not, get it, you wont regret it.

A new author to love.

WOW! Great book! A friend loaned me this book and I was very grateful for that. This is the first Luanne Rice book I have read but it was very good and I will definitely read more of hers. The story was wonderful. The characters were well developed and you learn everything about them. They are 'real' people with 'real' issues. It seems good to read about something so real. I would definitely recommend this book. I am glad to find someone new to read, since I have read all my fav authors to date. It is one you won't want to put down.

MY ALL TIME FAVORITE BOOK EVER!!!

This was absolutely my favorite book of all time ~ Luanne Rice has a way of making you part of her stories once again. I really enjoy the fact that she refers to some of the characters from this book in some of her more recent ones.

Great Book

Great book, I loved it, gave it to 3 friends who read it and loved it too. Buy it!

great

This book rocks like so many of her others do. I loved the characters and how she made them seem so real and alive! Make time for it this summer.

I love this author

I loved this book and I love this author. I have gone out and purchased all her books to read. Can't wait to get started on the next one.

one of the bests

i absoultly love this book, it is one of my favs. the love story was just so sweet and made you want to read more until you were finished with the book, i couldnt put it down, i felt like i knew all of the characters and thats what i liked about the book the most

Another Great Love Story!

Firefly Beach by Luanne Rice is one of her best books yet. I have read all but three of her books, and with each new book I read, I come to endear Rice as one of my favorite authors. Her books are incredibly sensitive, the characters are so real and believable, and she writes from her heart. Her writings seem to center on family issues that one can relate to at one time or another. Rice lets us know that love can heal, prevail and make things right. Caroline Renwick knows the secret of Joe Connor's father's untimely death when he was only six. Yet Caroline befriends him at a young age and their relationship grows deeper through their letters to each other. That is, until Joe discovers the truth of his father's death, and at seventeen and blames Caroline for not telling him the truth, and cuts her out of his life. Years later, Joe comes back into Caroline's life, back to Firefly beach to see for himself where the death occurred, and to find some more answers. Now a grown woman, Caroline, remains the main support for her mother and two sisters, as they all must confront those demons and deal with them, as well as the arrival of Joe Connor. With grace and style, Luanne Rice portrays a dysfunctional family whose yearnings to heal are marred by more challenges and confrontations. With Joe's help, Caroline is able to listen to her heart and to her longings and in the process helps her own family to find the strength to heal and to love again. This was another could not put down book, and Ms. Rice writes with the same sensitivity that I have come to admire in her previous books. A very endearing love story - I highly recommend it!

Boring and Depressing

This book is full of violence and cheap romance. It is so boring I didn't even finish reading it (which is VERY rare with me). I don't recommend it!

Summer Read? Summer will be over by the time you finish it!

This novel was a little slow and boring at first but when the romance started it became a lot more interesting. My final opinion of the book was that while it held my attention enough to finsh it, it had a little too much drama.

Great summer read

Firefly Beach is a great summer read for the beach. It kept my interest from the time I turned the first page. I recommended it to three of my friends already.

A Great Summertime Escape!

I found Firefly Beach a warm and exciting. If you love the ocean, art, family,suspense romance and of course fireflies, you will find it in this book. I think the relationship of the sisters was beautiful and true to life in many ways. L.White

a great heart warming summer read

I found this one of Luanne Rice's best books yet. It was a real page turner. I enjoyed the bonding between 3 sisters. This story made me want a sister. You will really enjoy this book.

powerful look at the aftermath of a tragedy

In 1969 at FIREFLY BEACH, Connor arrives at the Renwick home carrying a gun. He accuses the famous artist Hugh Renwick of stealing his wife and plans to steal something that the man loves. However, Renwick is not at home and Connor is unable to kill any of the three Renwick sisters as he had planned. Instead he kills himself. Five-year old Caroline Renwick begins exchanging letters with Connor¿s six-year-old son Joe, but those letters end years later when he learns his dad committed suicide rather than dying from a heart attack.

Over three decades later, Joe returns to FIREFLY BEACH to meet the Renwicks and gain closure. Instead, he finds the Renwicks needing emotional help too. He helps one sister dry out, but opens his heart to the vulnerable, caring Caroline as love blossoms between them. However, that tragedy thirty plus years ago still nightmarishly lingers as a blockage to any permanent relationship between Caroline and Joe.

FIREFLY BEACH is a powerful look at how one tragic event impacts on innocent family members. Three decades after their father had an affair with his mother; all four now adult children and the girls¿ mother still are psychologically damaged. Luanne Rice escorts the audience inside the heads of her cast so the reader can feel the swirling often-dark emotions that threaten to engulf each character. Ms. Rice is among the top gurus in invoking a realistic healing power of love in her novels and this novel showcases the author at her holistic best.

Harriet Klausner

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