Sea Star Summer by Sally Partridge // Book Review

So about a month ago South African author, Sally Partridge, held a book giveaway on her website. In celebration of her latest book being released, Sea Star Summer.

I relentlessly & passively entered. And at the time of entering the giveaway I had seen her books at my local public library, but I never had the chance to take it out or read any of her books.

If I'm being honest, when I initially entered the competition I had no idea that I was actually stood any chance of winning. So would you imagine my surprise to finding out that I was one of the people that won the giveaway. I was so surprised by winning it, not only was it my first time winning a book giveaway but it was also the first time I could do a book Haul on my Instagram account [@themostlybookishblog]. 👁️👄👁️

I'm probably drawing this intro out for way too long.😅 So without further or do here is my review of Sea Star Summer by Sally Partridge.

Pros:

1 - The Atmosphere. I absolutely loved this book's atmosphere, it was very descriptive with its landscape and area that it was in. I might have never been to Jeffreys Bay, but this book made me see the surrounding in my mind. This book made me add Jeffreys Bay to my must visit holiday destinations (obviously, post-Covid).

2 - The writing. I read this over the span of about 3 days (yeah, I know, I'm a slow reader😅). It was such a quick paced read with a simplistic yet descriptive writing style. I whole heartedly believe that a person could read this book in a day.

3 - The Characters. I really liked the 2 main characters [Naomi & Elise]. They had chemistry, and I was shipping them from day one.

Cons:

I only have like 2 main gripes with the book. That it was too short, I feel like it could have been better if it was longer. The other gripe I had was that, was the side characters/background characters. I feel like they were very one dimensional and flat.

Overall thoughts

I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who wants a quick read, that also happens to be South African & queer/sapphic.

🌟🌟🌟🌟 /5

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