I loved this book! It's well-written, enjoyable, and a great read. Sarah Morgan did a great job of writing in a way that captures the readers attention, and makes you not want to put it down until you're finished! I would highly recommend it!

Kathleen is 80 years old, living in her house and all is going well. That is until her home is burglarized and now her daughter wants her to move to an assisted living facility. Kathleen will not hear of it. She wants to have an adventure, she wants to have fun. She is 80 years old not dead.
Liza is busy with her own life. She has her own family and she is tired. She cannot handle the idea of her mother heading out on an adventure. Martha is young and has no idea what she is doing with her life. She is unemployed and bored and she needs a change too.
Martha sees an add for a driver and applies for the job. The add says that an epic road trip is involved. Martha can’t wait to hear about it. She sees this as opportunity to get out of her parents house, take some time off to think about her life and finally have some fun. Can these two ladies make it on their own? There is bound to be trouble ahead. But regardless both ladies are throwing caution to the wind and heading out in the journey of a lifetime.
Over all this was a quick, enjoyable read. The characters and story is cute. I want to thank Netgalley and the Sarah Morgan for my copy of Summer Seekers for an honest review. It was my pleasure to read and share my thoughts. I hope you enjoy it too.

Sorry, I was unable to read this because it kept getting bumped to the bottom of my list. So much to read! This sounded just like what I needed at the time, but life got in the way and more books kept showing up. Sorry about that

I read this book pretty fast and found it to be predictable. It was definitely fun and full of romance, but not something I was totally interested in. It definitely got me in the mood for warmer days!

I really enjoyed the message behind the story and that you can never be too old to change your life and make it how you want it to be. This was a major part of this novel and I think that was written well.

The reason this got 3 stars from me is because I am someone who loves to connect with the characters and I felt like I had a hard time doing that. Also, the ending seemed pretty abrupt and I was surprised at that because this book wasn't all that short.

I like Sarah Morgan and have a bunch of her books on my TBR that I cannot wait to read! Hoping the next one up is one that I can connect to more.

This one was just okay for me. The storytelling was well done and I liked the idea of three women embarking on a journey together for all different reasons. However I think this is just a case of me not being in the headspace for this type of book right now.

The three women were very likable and I really liked the romance at the end with Martha, especially.

Would recommend to readers who have enjoyed other Sarah Morgan books and women’s fiction.

Positively delightful!

This story follows three women (Kathleen, Martha, and Liza) and their personal journeys. Things wove together by the end nicely! I really enjoyed the audio and think this would be a fun one to add to your summer reading.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin for the advanced readers copy of this book for my honest unbiased opinion.

Kathleen is an eighty year old women who was a huge adventure seeker in her youth. She travelled the world leaving her daughter Liza home with her husband for long periods of time.
Kathleen has settled into a quiet existence after the death of her husband in their little cottage by the lake until one night when someone breaks into her house and she hits them over the head with a frying pan, It is then that she remembers how much she enjoyed adventure and decides to travel Route 66 in a Mustang.
Liza is a teacher with a busy husband and demanding dependent teenage daughters who doesn't have time to fix her mother and handle all the demands placed on her.
Martha is a young 25 year old looking for a job and a way out of her life so she answers the ad to be Kathleen's driver.

This books is a cute fluffy book, I was expecting more of a humorous story about an old lady and a young girl on a road trip. It was a good book but not really what I was expecting.

Sarah Morgan knows how to write Women's Fiction. I really love reading her books when I am traveling because I can be immersed in a different world.

Kathleen is eighty years old. After she has a run-in with an intruder, her daughter wants her to move into a residential home. But she’s not having any of it. What she craves—what she needs—is adventure.

Liza is drowning in the daily stress of family life. The last thing she needs is her mother jetting off on a wild holiday, making Liza long for a solo summer of her own.

Martha is having a quarter-life crisis. Unemployed, unloved and uninspired, she just can’t get her life together. But she knows something has to change.

When Martha sees Kathleen’s advertisement for a driver and companion to share an epic road trip across America with, she decides this job might be the answer to her prayers. She's not the world's best driver, but anything has to be better than living with her parents. And traveling with a stranger? No problem. Anyway, how much trouble can one eighty-year-old woman be?

As these women embark on the journey of a lifetime, they all discover it's never too late to start over…

DNF @25%
2021; HQN/HarperCollins

I enjoy Sarah Morgan's Christmas/holiday novels, so I was excited to read this non-holiday book. It reminded me a bit of the movies Tammy and In Her Shoes which I really liked. There was something about the story or humour that just didn't click for me.

***I received a complimentary copy of this ebook from the publisher through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.***

I just love Sarah Morgan and this was such a wonderful and enjoyable read. She always bring such authentic relationships and characters you root for.

this was a enjoyable read, it had what I was wanting from this type of book. The characters were great and I enjoyed the plot of the book.

I'm a, little late with my review as, we're now slipping out of the summer season and I'm about to read Sarah's next Christmas novel!
This book made me feel all warm and sunny inside as the autumn nights draw in.
I loved the concept and duel narratives.
Another brilliant piece of escapism from one of my favourite authors.

This novel is all about embracing your potential and that you're never too old to make things right. Three women are all struggling. Kathleen is getting older and missing the wild lifestyle she had as a world traveler. Her daughter Liza thinks her marriage is in trouble and is overwhelmed running her household and dealing with her twin daughters. And then there's Martha who isn't sure what she wants to do with her life but knows it's not continuing living with her parents after a bad breakup. Seeking the adventure she missed, Kathleen hires Martha to take her on a road trip down Route 66. While she's away, Liza embraces the opportunity to housesit as a way escape her daily life stresses. Each on their own adventure, the women all learn what they're really capable of and that it's never too late to mend broken relationships.

With the three women in varying stages of life, this novel touches on a number of challenges people face as they grow older and see life moving forward. It is a wonderful reminder that if you're not happy with the way things are going, it's in your power to make a change. This novel is filled with great characters, a little bit of romance, and just the right balance of emotion. It was a very enjoyable read.

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

I love books with a wide range of age ranges!
25 - 80 years old! Love it!!
Kathleen and Martha go on an adventure. A road trip across the USA.
Meanwhile, Kathleen’s daughter, Liz, escapes her selfish children and neglectful husband to house sit for Kathleen.
Escapades abound!!!
This is a great read!
The different narrators really work too.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

I loved the multiple narrators and their different life experiences. It's so refreshing to read a story about women who ranged in age from 25-80 and who are each in a different stage of life, facing their own challenges but ultimately learning from and about each other. I really loved the importance of friendship in each case, and how Martha, Liza and Kathleen all gained different lessons from this one summer. This was a lovely summer read!

Thanks to Netgalley for the e-ARC!

The Summer Seekers is a lovely road-trip novel that starts with violence from a woman clinging to her independence and ends with an important meeting that we - frustratingly - never get to see.  In between, there are little black dresses, marriages that are healed, and white water rafting trips.

Octogenarian Kathleen is determinedly living on her own in Cornwall when a prowler breaks into her home.  She bashes him unconscious with a frying pan after a brief struggle, resulting in injuries all around.  This sets her daughter off about Kathleen going into a retirement home, but proud and independent Kathleen refuses to give in.  Instead, she places an ad for a companion to drive her across America in hopes of reuniting with her youthful past as a nomadic and famous traveler, if only to prove that she’s not ready to be put out to pasture and can live happily alone.

Kathleen’s daughter Liza is always anxious that something will happen to her mother, but her pleas for her to move into some sort of retirement community constantly fall on deaf ears.  A teacher who can only see her mother’s careless mistakes instead of her independent actions, Liza is frazzled, and her relationship with her distanced and distracted husband, Sean – which began when they were both sixteen -  is slowly falling apart because she has been absorbed by the intensity of their connection to the extent that there is no individualized ‘her’ left to tend to her own desires and wants.  Her twin daughters – Caitlin and Alice - are teenagers who express their independence in typical, dangerous teenage bursts of rebellion, Caitlin more aggressively than Alice, and Liza is struggling for peace of her own.  She wishes both her daughters and her mother were closer to her; in trying to live a life opposing wild and free Kathleen’s, Liza’s ‘self’  has dissolved into the ether.

Martha Jackson is a recently-divorced (after only four days) twenty-five-year-old who likes books better than people.  Going back to live with her parents is a humiliating change of lifestyle; she yearns for independence the same way that Kathleen does, and her parents are nitpicky, critical, and sometimes verbally abusive.  Realizing she hasn’t accomplished anything with her life, Martha has vowed to jump on the next fresh option when she comes across Kathleen’s ad.  Martha is not a good driver at all, but she’ll do anything to get out of her parents’ house.

The three women strike up a deal. Martha agrees to fly with Kathleen to America and then drive her from one end of Route 66 to the other in a rented Mustang soft-top.  Though she intended to stay with her family over her summer break and head on a family trip to France, Liza is finally pushed to the brink when her daughters’ selfishness combines with her husband’s choice to go on a work trip during their anniversary week.  She chooses to head to Cornwall to watch Kathleen’s house instead.

While Martha and Kathleen try to navigate the oddness of America and Kathleen tries to regain confidence in herself, and remembering some memorable stops from her days as a TV travel host, Liza carves out space for herself as she forces her family members to deal with their own messes – and starts to flirt with her mother’s cute neighbor, Finn.  Martha and Kathleen pick up a handsome stranger named Josh who soon makes himself quite useful to Kathleen.  Will Liza pick Finn or Sean?  Will Kathleen’s confidence return?  And will the truth that Kathleen has secretly been keeping for years finally emerge to the light?

The Summer Seekers works as women’s fiction and as a romance, though the romantic component is naturally a sidebar to the each woman’s personal growth as she moves through her vacation.  What’s important is what they learn about themselves and how they can (and do) change their lives to live richer and more fulfilling ones.

My favorite among the women was definitely Martha, with her rough edges and difficult choices.  But it’s impossible not to pity Liza, who is incredibly sympathetic as she struggles her way toward regaining her best self, becoming friends with her mother’s long-estranged friend, and deciding which man she truly loves.  Of the three women, Martha is the most weakly drawn, but there’s also something worth rooting for in her, as she learns to let go of her husband of four days.

I wanted a little bit more color tossed onto the travelogue – certainly there could have been more interesting side-trips or places that Martha and Kathleen could have visited.  But the point is the bond Josh, Martha and Kathleen form, which is solid, interesting, and rather unique.  One expects it to resolve in romance, and it doesn’t.  And then there’s Liza, painting and swimming and figuring out who she is. The style of the book is smooth, easy to enjoy and read and a lot of fun to dip your toes into once you get rolling with it.

The Summer Seekers is the epitome of a smooth, easy to read beach book.  It might not be memorable in the long run, but it makes for a lovely and easy to like experience.

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Sometimes a book finds us at exactly the right time, which is what happened here. The Summer Seekers is the book I didn’t know I needed to read.

Based on the cover and blurb, I was expecting a light, humorous story. But, wow, is this story heavy! We have layers of emotions and family dynamics. The insight into marriage, aging, and simply discovering ourselves is powerful. Don’t get me wrong; we are given moments of levity, and we have lots of fun throughout the journey. The overall experience, though, is so much more than I expected.

The Summer Seekers is a fun, light, slightly predictable, perfect for lazy summer days kinda book. I loved the different perspective of the different generations that alternated view point chapters. It also made me want to to take an epic road trip across the country!

Fantastic summer reading! This book has everything you need for a great summer beach or poolside read. There's family drama, romance, and a little mystery. I really liked all of the characters. The story moved along quickly and jumped to different POVs. I loved Kathleen and hope that I'm like her when I'm 80! I definitely had sympathy for Liza though but I'm a worrywart as well. Really great read, highly recommended!