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Sweet Tomorrows Review

Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced reader's copy.

Sweet Tomorrows by Debbie Macomber is the last in the Rose Harbor series.  I was disappointed when I learned this because I have really enjoyed this series.  However, I was hopeful that this book would have a resolution that I had been missing at the end of the last few books.  I am happy to say that there was a resolution and it was a satisfying one.

Jo Marie is back helping wounded people at her Rose Harbor Inn, and this time she needs to finish her own healing.  Her boarder Emily is a big part of this story too and she has some healing to do as well.  Both characters fight their own pasts and end up creating their happy endings.  The heroes in the story Nick and Mark also have pasts that they need to overcome on their way to happiness.

The trouble I had with this story was it was written in a different style than the others in the series.  That threw me off right away, and although I got used to it and really appreciated it after awhile it made this story seem separate from the others in the series.  These characters were good, but they didn't come to life like some of the characters in Macomber's other stories.  I also had a little trouble with Jo Marie in this story.  She seemed very different and much more indecisive in this book.  She actually was seeing another gentleman while Nick was away and then when he came back she continued to see both.  Although that didn't bother me in itself, what was troublesome for me was how she couldn't make up her mind.

Overall it was a solid story with a great ending.  If you read and enjoyed the other stories in this series I would recommend this one as well.  I rated this a 3/5 on Goodreads.
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