Boca by Moonlight is full of quirky, relatable characters who think they have it all figured out in their retirement years. Until they don't! Relationships are explored especially with the central male characters. Not everything is what it seems and everyone seems to be holding back on who they really are. Loved the author's sense of humor. and would like to read more.

The Boca resort has its social club, condos, pools, golf club - indeed anything the wealthy American retiree could desire. George & his golfing buddies have the perfect life. That is until George's wife dies and he is snowed under with medical bills he can't afford, his relationship with his adult children is disintegrating, and golfing buddy Willie dies suddenly. It seems life isn't quite as settled as George thought it was.
This is one of those books that starts well and then heads downhill fast. Though, to be fair, I quite liked the ending. The middle just wallowed about with mediocre characters and a plot which seemed more unlikely by the second. It is quite hard to read a book where you just don't like any of the characters. It isn't that they are particularly evil. They are just the sort of characters that if I met them I would try to avoid them in future - dishonest, womanising, snobby, discriminatory, self-centred......you can imagine the sort of person. As the plot is focused on these people, their interactions & their lives it did make the book quite hard to read. I wasn't interested in the characters or their lives.
The beginning of the book looked promising until I got to know the characters and then it went downhill. The plot didn't develop & it all got quite stale. The ending did work and made the book worth finishing. Not an author I shall bother to read again.
I received a free copy of this book via Netgalley.