Hurricane Season by Lauren K. Denton - Reshelved Books

Hello Dewey Readers!

It's HOT here in northern New Jersey and dare we say it's Hurricane Season?  Well, it's definitely been thunderstorm season.  I absolutely adore thunder and lighting, which Jillian thinks is absolutely insane.  She's probably right.... I recently finished Lauren K. Denton's novel Hurricane Season.  I'm guilty of the fact that I smuggled this book of the donation cart at work and brought it home because I fell in love with the cover.  Isn't it gorgeous?  I also spilt ginger tea on this lovely cover last night about 40 pages before I finished it. 

Before the ginger tea spillage.

I almost wasn't going to write a review of this novel 1) Because I've been busy writing other stuff and 2) I just didn't love it as much as I thought I was going to.  I guess what they say is true.  You shouldn't judge a book by it's cover... but do I really want to waste my precious book space by not bringing home a book that's pleasant to look at?  

Onto the book!  This novel is about a young single mother of two named Jenna.  Jenna works in a coffee shop to support her family even though she dreams of pursuing her passion for photography. Now, Jenna's sister Betsy lives on a dairy farm with her husband Ty.  Yup, they have cows AND chickens.  Betsy does not have a good relationship with her parents because she married a farmer rather than a business man, but she lives a somewhat happy life with the man that she loves.  The one problem the couple faces?  They can't get pregnant.  (Is this bringing up memories of Colleen Hoover's All Your Perfects!?)  Then Jenna decides to go on a photography retreat and she leaves her children with Betsy and Ty for a couple of weeks.

I felt that this book was too neat, and even the problems resolved themselves almost too happily.  I also felt as though I was heading towards a reading slump and this book just pushed me into it a little bit quicker than I would have liked.  (Does anyone ever really like to be in a reading slump?)  When I finished reading this book I had trouble remembering what I read.  

So Dewey Readers, I leave you with a rating of 3 out of 5 Coffee Beans. The cover IS really pretty.  

Until the next read!
~Jessica