The Best Goodbye

Rosemary Beach Series – Book 13

By Abbi Glines

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Synopsis

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Abbi Glines comes the next sizzling novel in the Rosemary Beach series, featuring well-known playboy and Blaire’s half brother, Captain.

The look on Rose’s face had screamed that she was hiding something. Hell, she’d practically run away from me. There was something to that. I knew there was…

After ten years in the employ of a mysterious crime boss, River “Captain” Kipling is ready to leave his sordid past—and his cover occupation as an upscale restaurateur—behind him. The only thing standing in the way of his “retirement” is his commitment to launch a new restaurant in the resort town of Rosemary Beach. With his sister, Blaire, nearby, Captain can delay his dream of running a humble bar on the waterfront, but the unwanted attentions of his head server, Elle, have him itching to get out.

Until he notices Rose Henderson, the new server at the restaurant. All he knows about the pretty redhead with the cute glasses is that she’s a hardworking single mom from Oklahoma. But there’s something overly familiar about her laugh…something strange about the way she looks at Captain…

Michel’s Review

I am a huge fan of the Rosemary Beach Series by Abbi Glines.  I have read every book  in this series.  I was extremely excited to see Captain’s book was releasing. River “Captain” Kipling has been an enigma throughout the series.  His appearance in some of the previous books has left readers with a sense that this guy has a story to tell and it’s not going to be pretty.

The Best Goodbye by Abbi Glines is the big revelation of who Captain is and where he came from.  The were some surprising revelations and a very complicated past.  Add that to his complicated dangerous career choices that he is trying to walk away from and the reader has quite a story to ingest.

I loved the concept of Captain’s story and his history with Rose.  I loved their past relationship and admired his dedication to that relationship.  But nine years have passed and he is not the same man.  Rose is not the same woman.  They had some serious issues but resolving them came too easy.  The reader didn’t get to experience the red hot chemistry, the cat and mouse dance that leads to explosive passion, and the hard earned resolution.  The entire back story and present relationship was too easy, a little too fast, and too easily won.  Captain’s dangerous history and present danger were flossed over and reached a predictable conclusion.  The other dynamic characters from the series were mostly absent from this book.  Blair made a couple of short appearances and Mase made one very short appearance.  These characters and their relationship with the other characters, their sense of family & friendship, was absent.  To me this is part of the dynamics that makes this series so successful and very much loved by the readers.

Overall Captain had a good story but it was rushed.  I was disappointed because I wanted to love him and Rose as much as the other Rosemary Beach characters.

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Since publishing her first novel Breathe in May of 2011, Abbi has also released The New York Times bestselling Seabreeze Series which includes Breathe, Because of Low, While It Lasts, Just For Now and Sometimes It Last, The Existence Trilogy that includes the USA Today Bestseller Ceaseless. New York Times and USA TODAY bestsellers The Vincent Boys and The Vincent Brothers. Last but not least her most popular series to date, Rosemary Beach which includes The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, Forever Too Far, Twisted Perfection and Simple Perfection. Her newest book scheduled to be released on December 17th, 2013 is Misbehaving (Seabreeze).

When Abbi isn’t locked away in her office typing away she is hauling her kids to and from their many social activities. You could say her second job is the Glines Kids personal chauffeur. It’s a rather illustrious job.

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