Thanks to #NetGalley and #HarperMuse for an advance listening copy of SummeronLilacIsland. A nice cozy romance featuring many intertwined characters. 3 stars.

Being from Michigan this review feels a bit biased, but I just loved this story. The writing created a beautiful picture of the magic that is Mackinac island. The plot was cute and I appreciated the development of the various characters. This is a perfect spring/summer read that I definitely will recommend to my friends!

As a kid my husband spent his summers in the UP of Michigan, so I was so excited thee first time he took me to Mackinac Island. I was a Southerner, and honestly the only thing I knew about the Island was the Grand Hotel from the movie Somewhere In Time, but once there I fell in love with the area, especially the fact that their was no cars traveling about the streets, it gave everything the most quaint feel I had probably ever experienced.

Summer On Lilac Island takes place on Mackinac, so it became a sure read for me. ( Lilac Island is Mackinac's nickname due to the amount of Lilac bushes that are on the island, they also have a Lilac Festival there every June )

The story is about Gigi, who moves back home to live with her mom, as you can imagine, it is an emotional time for her, no one wants to have to go home to their parents once living on their own.. Right off the bat, her mother tries to fix her up with the towns single doctor ( makes me, a Jewish woman, wonder if Gigi has a Jewish mother hahaha ) but Gigi will not agree until her mother also agrees to a date with a man Gigi met on the Ferry on the way to the island. Throughout the book you will see each to the two women grow from the place they started at the beginning of the book.

The book does have several perspectives of the story, five to be exact. This is usually a sore spot with me because I sometimes get confused on who is who, but Macmillan's writing was smooth and coherent and I had no trouble keeping up with the amount, The entire book is light and charming and the Island even felt like an additional character.

Publishing in July, this is a perfect summer read. Everything about the book is summery and you feel the warmth as you read. There is light romance, it doesn't rule the story, the story is the woman and their lives.

Pick up Summer on Lilac Island this July, and escape to Mackinac, no matter where you are, it is so easy to do with Macmillan's vivid descriptions and imaginative world building!

Summer on Lilac Island by Lindsay Macmillan, narrated by Kira Fixx. Great beach read. Gigi returns to Mackinac Island to live with her mother Eloise. Matchmaking, healing old hurts, coming to terms with family issues, get ready to read layers in this book. Thank you to #NetGalley and # Harper Muse Auto books for this arc. This is my honest review.

Lindsay MacMillan knows how to take the reader to another place, and create the most fun, summer story! I was caught into this book from the first page. Loved the characters and this beautiful place!

Oh I absolutely loved this book about community, family relationships, mother and daughter duos. It is perfect for any season, but especially if you can't wait for summer time, as the island setting makes the descriptions leap off the page and make you long for the next season.

The personal growth of the main characters resulting from working through their traumas and the consequent opening up for the next challenges and surprises that life has in store for them were my favourite part of the book.

Thank you Netgalley for this ALC.

Cute little story about a mother daughter relationship and how we always end up being our mothers, listening to our mothers and finding ourselves on the way.

A wonderful beach read with so many layers and brings the reader closer to a fanastic place. After years of leaving Mackinac Island, Gigi Jenkins is back to her hometown and is going to spend her summer in Eloise's--her mother--house there. Their relationship isn't exactly mom-daughter duo, but somehow they start a competition to match make the other. Gigi would agree to go on a date with a man Eloise chooses, and vice versa. They know it's going to be unpredictable, but what they don't know is how the date could ignite something the islanders (and the fudgies) never expect to happen that would affect not only the Jenkins, but the whole community. Pealing beneath the layers of the story it unfolds with the improtance of family, healing wounds as well as dealing with the truth of the past in order to move forward. It is a lovely story of family stepping back and seeing one another for who they are other than who you expect or what them to be, reconnecting and loving the people in your life and meeting them where they are at on their journey. Really recommend this novel for a great beach read especially if you are interested the gem of Mackinaw Island (Lilac festival is usually starts the Second Friday in June) Thank you to Netgalley, the author, and publisher for this opportunity.

Gigi Jenkins returns to Lilac Island after escaping it right before graduation high school. Gigi has been chasing a wanderlust lifestyle for years and has come back home to reset and figure out what is next. Her relationship with her mom and sister are strained and her father is in out of their lives at his convenience. Her plans are to stay for a short period and relaunch as soon as possible.

It is a lovely story of family stepping back and seeing one another for who they are other than who you expect or what them to be - reconnecting and loving the people in your life and meeting them where they are at.

Thank you to NetGalley for an early review audiobook.

I just finished listening to the best audiobook. Summer on Lilac Island by Lindsay MacMillan was such a great story.

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW 🎧

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Thank you NetGalley and audible audio for the audio ARC

The audio was ok I didn’t like the narrators voice so wasn’t my favorite. But it flowed nicely and it was a sweet story. I think I would have enjoyed this more if Gigi didn’t annoy the crap outta me 😂 she was too whiney and her mom just made me mad lol. Other than that it’s a sweet story of a mother/daughter relationship.