Sarah's Reviews > The Island Villa

3.5 Stars - We follow best-selling romance author Catherine who lives on the island of Corfu and is about to embark upon her fourth marriage. We also get points-of-view from her daughter Cassie, who is close to her mom and excited about the marriage, and her estranged daughter Adelaide, who lives in London and is quite skeptical about the mom who abandoned her marrying yet again.

I believe this is by fourth Sarah Morgan book, and I'd have to rank it at the bottom. All of the books focus as much if not more on the characters' personal lives and struggles than their romance storylines, which is great by me. In this one, though, the romances all felt very rushed and less than believable. Morgan also frequently writes characters who are not entirely likable, but I usually come to understand and root for them. I had a harder time getting to that place with this novel. It just failed to all come together for me. It seemed like the romance storylines of the two daughters were forced into the novel, and I would have rather focused on seeing the family dynamics playout after the secret is revealed.