Title: First Love in Bar Harbor
Author: Amy Rafferty
Date: 2023
Publisher: Amy Rafferty
Quote: "But the biggest love you'll ever feel is for your own children."
While this short novel is about romantic love, it is not a romantic novel. It's realistic to the point of pain. Despite all the reasons why she doesn't want even to date Logan--he's her brother's friend and they've made it a rule not to date each other's friends, he's about to ship out with the Navy, his engagement to the "sweetheart" actress of the moment has been reported in the newspapers--she "falls in love" and spends a night with him. All we're told is that she spends a night with him. And the story ends with a burst of... motherly love.
Rafferty says this is the prequel to a series, so we can imagine that Hope and/or Logan will find romantic love in the volumes to follow.
By itself, First Love in Bar Harbor is a good book to hand to teenagers who've not lived through similar stories with their own friends.
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