Book: Summer’s Runaway 

Author: Rebecca L. Marsh

Releasedate: April 2023

Once again Rebecca managed to get inside my head. I love the way she’s able to make this book feel like a stand alone. It’s technically the next book after Where Hope Is Found, but you can easily read it without reading the first book. For me it helped to know what characters were being portrayed in the book, but no worries if you haven’t read it!

Rebecca’s writing style is easygoing and it doesn’t take much effort to get into the story. It really isn’t hard to imagine where the main character is and after a while, what’s she’s been through. 

I experienced all sorts of emotions again, I mean, Rebecca has a knack for it to make you feel things you don’t want to, haha. But she manages it nevertheless. I was absolutely able to picture the situations happening on the island and I felt miffed, sad, enraged, happy for what happened there. It’s quite a thing to get inside a teenager’s head. Heck, if I’m looking at my teenagers I’m like ‘What dustball has settled in your brain? I have no idea’. Teenagers do stupid things and Rebecca mastered the ability to let you share in those teenager feelings. As a grown-up you can poke through those feelings, because we see them for what they are. I almost felt as if I was jammering against my own teenager. “Whyyyyy would you do that…” 

And that’s quite a feat not everyone can master. 

Summer’s Runaway isn’t your standard happy go lucky book, but if you stick until the end, you will be rewarded!