I thoroughly enjoy getting lost in Robyn Carr’s novels and Sunrise on Half Moon Bay is the perfect example of why! Centering around sisters Justine and Adele (Addie), I was completely hooked from the very first chapter! Justine and Addie are sisters but being that they are 20 years apart in age they weren’t super close. Adele is in her early thirties and Justine in her early fifties, so the sisters are obviously in different stages in their lives, but they both find themselves going through major life changes and turn to each other for a shoulder to lean on.

I know there are a lot of readers looking for a great Women’s Fiction/Romance novel that’s a standalone and I am here to say this book is for you! I loved how Robyn Carr always organically develops characters /relationships and I really felt that with Sunrise on Half Moon Bay! This 5 star novel would make a fantastic beach read! As per usual, I already look forward to reading Robyn Carr’s next book!

I was thrilled to final,y be approved for a Robyn Carr book. I loved this book. I couldn't read it fast enough. Two sisters embark on major life changes in a small community. Addie has spent eight years caring for her parents. Now she has to figure out the rest of her life. She loses weight, finds a job, wrestles with her past and finds her future. Justine discovers her husband is not what he see,s to be and has to reconfigure her entire life. But it's a Chance to really be happy. It's all about transformations and making the most out of life.

Justine and Adele, two sisters 20 years apart in age, have never been close. Their lives have been completely different. Adele has to drop out of school to care for their ailing parents. Justine is married with 2 children and a career as a high powered lawyer. When their lives change they both have to figure out where their future is and they become closer. I liked this story, watching Adele and Justine grow closer and figure out their paths for the future. This book is about family, love and forgiveness. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy.

I have to say that I wasn't into this book like her other ones. It was still good though. I loved the relationships that the sisters had and the fact they both started over. I love the family feel to it. It covered serious issues like divorce and domestic violence. I give this book 4 stars and I am grateful that Netgalley gave me the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review. I look forward to reading more of Robyn Carr's books :)

The story of two very different sisters is both wonderfully sweet and gut wrenchingly sad. A riveting read about family ties, all kinds of love and living your best life. Perfect.

Sunrise on Half Moon Bay
Robyn Carr
April 14, 2020

Robyn Carr gives us another wonderful selection, only this time it is not in her series category. She provides her readers with a well written stand alone. This is the tale of two women. Justine Descaoro grew up in a middle income home. Her father was a custodian in an elementary school, while her mom was home taking care of the family. Justine entered college planning on becoming a teacher. Life was good. She enjoyed life at college and had met Scott, a business major. They seemed to fall in love from across the room. When she was twenty, her mother gave birth to another daughter, Adele. It was quite a surprise for the entire family. Because of the many years between them Justine and Adele were not close. Justine was planning her wedding to Scott shortly after college graduation. They had thoughts of starting a family while Adele was growing up in what seemed to be family but entirely different from what Justine lived in.
Adele was close to her sister’s girls. She babysat them and enjoyed her time in high school. She too headed off to college planning to get her Masters in English Literature hoping to teach at the college level. Justine became a corporate attorney while Scott took care of the girls. He worked part time and seemed to enjoy taking care of the girls as well as spending spare time while all was quiet at home. He would go out biking, swimming, canoeing and all sorts of sports. Justine worked long hours at work and brought more home but continued to spend time with her daughters helping out with homework and keeping track of their social life.
Adele was within a year of finishing up her graduate degree when her father had taken a fall at school. He was in and out of surgery, then physical therapy but most of the time he lay in bed flat on his back. Adele quit school and came home to help her mother take care of him. Upon his passing, their mother became bedridden from a stroke. She could not talk nor feed or take care of herself. Adele put off finishing her degree again and continued being the caregiver for her parents. Justine would help on occasion but with her work and the girls to care for, her time was limited.Years passed and just before Christmas, eight years after her father’s fall, their mother passed. Adele did not realize how much she did not have, until the days went by and her world seemed empty.
This novel was extremely well written. It had great flow as did The House on Olive Street. The journey each woman took after their parents passing told of how much there is to learn from daily experiences when things go wrong. Unexpected turns that leave families in ruin.
Sunrise on Half Moon Bay is such a terrific yet emotional read. I devoured it over 2 days. It was difficult to put down.
Robyn Carr’s latest is published by Harlequin Books and will be available on April 14, 2020. Books in her new series editions are grabbed up immediately upon publishing. Sunrise on Half Moon Bay should be the same. She is an excellent writer. I hope all of her readers enjoy her latest offering.

The beginning of this book was a little choppy for me until I got into the flow of the story. It was a good story of two sisters finding their way through their separate lives, as well as exploring and growing their relationship together.

Robyn carr always pulls her readers in from the start of the book. This story was about two sisters and how they dealt with life and their personal problems. There was no happy ever after in this story. I really like more romance in books so my favorites are her older series

Carr gives her fans a well-spun story of two sisters who really could be mother and daughter with their age difference and jumps right into a critical juncture in both of their lives. Justine (52), the successful, bread winning attorney, married to an emotionally abusive philanderer; and Adele, the 32 year old younger sister who put her life on hold to care for her aging parents while also on the rebound from a failed relationship. Like many of her books, Carr puts both sisters on the road to self re-discovery and does not pander to her audience. there is no concrete HEA, but instead an ending that makes everyone acclimate to their new normal and move forward with more healthy relationships.

Travel to Half Moon Bay

Sister getting a divorce? -- have to split EVERYthing?
Sister running office of Social Workers and moving on with ...

Characters made me cheer, yell, think

I was reading anohter book
opened this to see if part of a series or standalone (standalone)
...couldn't stop reading
I got completely wrapped up in story - reading entire book!

4.5 stars Two sisters Adele and Justine were never close- there was a 20 year age difference. Adele cared for her ailing parents and when her mother died, she was lost and depressed. Justine was happily married with 2 kids, or so she thought.
Both sisters have to find themselves and start over and in doing so, they become close sisters.
The book is the story of getting your life together. At times, it was sad, but mostly it made you feel good.