A Familiar Story, Done Well

Another older series title - I owe this one to AAR, which recently reviewed it.

A Summer To Come Home by Dallas Schulze (HAR 368)
(1990, Contemporary Series) 4/1/06
Grade: 4

When Jake Quncannon comes back to Riverbend after twenty years, everyone in town is ready to assume the worst. Paige was just a child when he left, but now she’s grown up and is the respected town librarian. But there’s something about Jake that makes her want to take chances, even if it’s only for the summer.

The plot is familiar, but somehow, the author makes this familiar plot come alive. The characters are well drawn and the emotions are real. It doesn’t really matter that the background is familiar. In a longer book it might have become tired, but here, it works. It’s more like listening to an old song you haven’t heard in a while.

The opposite of my last read - the story may be familiar, but the execution makes it worth reading.