Gray, Marguerite Martin. Room for Love. 2023.

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Summary of Room for Love

God gave her peace then; maybe He’ll do it again.

When Amy Lee’s son heads off to college, the bed and breakfast owner finds life even lonelier and emptier than she had after losing her husband. She needs something to occupy her mind and heart while she reinvents her life again. What more could she ask for than an after-school program for local children and a renewed interest in painting?

Then the arrival of a professor of archeology shakes her world and makes her yearn for the way things were only a few short months ago.

Still grieving the loss of his beloved wife, and ignoring the warnings and protests of his grown children, Professor Walker Standish escapes on a six-month sabbatical. His heart, barely beating these past months, jerks to life again when he finds more than a room at a B & B.

Where an ocean meets the shore, love has room for one more.

Take a trip to the Suamalie Islands where palm trees sway, the sand and sea pulse with life, and the people will steal your heart.

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My Adult Review of Room for Love

I enjoyed Marguerite Martin Gray’s contribution to the Suamalie Island series. This sweet romance involves two who are in their middle years and alone after losing their spouses. Readers will enjoy watching the relationship develop. Readers may also be intrigued by the archeological side of the story, I know I was. I always find it interesting when I learn culture in the midst of my fiction reading.

I’ll have to say, the Suamalie Island series has me a bit confused. The series is a spin off from the Independence Island series. Because of this I expected some overlap of characters or at least nods to the characters in that series, but it has only happened in a couple of the books so far. I was also hoping for more overlap of characters within the Suamalie Island books. The Independence Island books all felt like they were written in a similar style. That is not the case with the Suamalie Island series. From one book to the next you don’t know if you’re going to get a thrilling mystery or a sweet romance. 

I was also disappointed by the ending of the book. It really ends in a cliffhanger. I hope Gray continues the plot line in a future book. 

In spite of my disappointments, which are mostly personal preferences, I thoroughly enjoyed the story and look forward to reading more of Gray’s contributions to the Suamalie Island series. 

Room for Love is an adult contemporary romance. However, there is nothing to keep it from being added to a K-12 Christian school. I think high schoolers would enjoy it. 

I received a complimentary copy of Room for Love.  This is my honest review. 

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