Review: Summer's Fun (The Boys of Ocean's Beach Series Book 2) by Angel Lawson

Summer's Fun by Angel Lawson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Second Summer in Ocean Beach

I’d probably give this book 3.5 ⭐️ if I could.

This is the second book of a duet. It’s necessary to have read Book 1 before reading this book to understand the characters, world and plot.

Summer is back in Ocean Beach after 9 months away at college. She’s kept in touch with her guys but only seen them a few times because they are all so spread out. Now she’s back she wants to make up for lost time as she returns to the place she’s grown to love.

Summer’s mother is now living with her fiancé Richard, the man she left behind when she was young. She’s left her trailer to Summer to use for her stay over the holiday and she’s also given her a job in the bookshop she opened. Her mother’s off on a massive book tour and though Summer is enjoying the freedom she does miss having her mother around.

The guys are all back home too, all of them are happy to be home and have Summer with them full-time. None of them have changed their minds about her. The only one who isn’t happy is Whit. He hates being away at a military college just to suit his dad, who he doesn’t particularly like anyway.

There is very little drama around Summer and her guys, in fact, it feels almost too easy. There is a little gossip, but not a lot. Most of the drama occurs in the last fifth of the book. I felt that the drama came a bit abruptly. There were little hints (more like glaring signposts) but there wasn’t much ratcheting up of the tension. The book felt like breezy summer fun until it really wasn’t, all at the flip of a switch. It seems contradictory that the signposts were glaring and then be annoyed at how quickly the mood changed but I feel that was a problem with the writing more than anything. It could have been handled so much better with just a few paragraphs here and there to change the overall mood.

I’m also pretty mad at Summer because she’s been away for 9 months, living at college and she doesn’t seem to have changed or grown up one bit. I was sure she’d be more confident and less clueless, but no, she’s not.

I felt like this book was trying to be several things at once and none of them really worked properly. It was trying to be a happy Summer read, with dark undercurrents and hot polyamorous fun times. It was like the three things were thrown in a bag, shaken up and then thrown at the wall.

Having said all that hypercritical stuff, it wasn’t a bad read, I think I’m just disappointed because it so very nearly accomplished what it set out to do, it just missed and I feel let down because it could have been a really really good read instead of mediocre.

I also feel like a lot of what should have been accomplished with the book regarding Summer’s relationships just weren’t addressed. It feels like there should have been another book in the series and there isn’t.

This feels like a very muddled review, and I think that’s because the book and my feelings about it were muddled too.

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