Ferris Beach

“Look, Michael! It’s a dolphin!” I couldn’t believe my eyes as the beautiful sea creature leapt from the water. Both of us laughed, but when I locked eyes with him, the only thing I could think about was how badly I wanted him to kiss me. If only he wasn’t my best friend’s dad…. Shelby goes on the vacation of a lifetime aboard her friend Lauren’s yacht, but when she gets there, she discovers Lauren is engaged—to her ex-boyfriend. He had been cheating on Shelby with Lauren for months. On top of that, Lauren’s snooty friends bully Shelby and make her feel bad for being poor. The only good thing about the trip is Michael. He’s so kind, considerate, and handsome. And Shelby thinks he might be interested in her, too. But… he just happens to be Lauren’s dad. Will Shelby and Michael let their true feelings be known, or will she always be longing for her billionaire beach daddy? Longing for the Beach Billionaire Daddy is created by Scarlett Rossi, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

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Make You Mine (Hermosa Beach Series #2)

(COMPLETED)Darren Fall Adams only wanted to have freedom as her life is always controlled by her parents who wanted her to marry someone she doesn't love. So here she goes, running away from home to look for it.

9.9

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Make You Stay (Hermosa Beach Series #1)

Sick of the life in Illinois, Kinsella Sloane decided to leave everything, travel and spend her whole summer in Hermosa Beach in South California. On whether, she would stay a little longer or not, she didn’t know. She wanted freedom. She longed for it ever since she’s turned twenty two. She wanted to explore and travel. She wanted to be carefree. But what would she do when she feels herself falling for one guy—one she knew would never be the man for her because sooner or later, she would leave the place? Everything would just turn into a memory. Would she be able to leave? Or would he be enough to make her stay?

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Billionaires And Beaches: The Kisses Series

Do you ever wish a secret billionaire would sweep you away to a tropical island? Do you ever wish that you could be like Cinderella and find your happily ever after with the prince? From New York Times bestselling author Krista Lakes, comes a sweet but spicy Billionaire Romance Series that will have you believing in happily ever after! Each story in this series is a stand-alone one. But with all the stories happen in one world, characters will reappear in other stories. ****** The First Set: Saltwater Kisses– An accidental marriage between Jack and Emma. Rainwater Kisses– Falling in love, and finding how they fit together with Owen and Kaylee. Freshwater Kisses– Finding love in childhood friends with Robbie and Sam. BONUS: Kisses From Jack: The first half of Saltwater Kisses, but from Jack's perspective! Timeless Love Stories: Champagne Kisses– A story of long lost love and second chances with Dean and Rachel. The Second Set: Sandcastle Kisses– Finding love in all the wrong places with Noah and Izzy Hurricane Kisses– Surviving the storm together with Logan and Olivia Barefoot Kisses– A Cinderella story with Aiden and Lena The Third Set: Sunrise Kisses– Ava and Bastian discovering true beauty Waterfall Kisses– Leo finally succumbing to Charlotte's charms Island Kisses: Gabe finally meets his match in Harper!

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He Ditched Me 52 Times

I dated my lawyer boyfriend for five years. He canceled our wedding. Fifty-two times. First time? His intern messed up some paperwork. He ditched me at the beach to fix it. I waited all day. Alone. Second time, we were mid-ceremony when he bolted. Heard that intern was getting heat from another lawyer and left me to face the guests and their stares. After that, every time we tried again, there was always some "emergency" with her. Always. I finally hit my limit. I was done. Packed up and broke it off. But the day I left Ainsley? He totally lost it trying to find me.

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Loving The Beast

Ferris Kingston is a ruthless mafia leader but when Hazel Lincoln is forced to marry him, she hopes to find mercy behind his cold eyes and strong hands. ____________ Hazel Lincoln was a nobody without her aunt. Feisty, hot-headed, dreamy, and naive was how she is described often. But to Ferris Kingston, she is a seductress who has intentionally made his nights restless... When a series of incidents force them arranged into marriage none of them ever had an idea what they were getting into. It was like thunder against a volcano... She hated his controlling manners and dominating nature. He was hell-bent on taming her feistiness. To the world, they are the most perfect couple but nobody knows whats happens behind the closed doors of Kingston Manor.....

9.4

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Which Is The Best Book To Read On The Beach For Summer Romance?

3 답변2025-09-03 10:49:59

Sun, salt, and a paperback — for me the absolute go-to beach romance is 'Beach Read' by Emily Henry. It has that perfect mix of witty banter, emotional payoffs, and a slightly sunburnt melancholy that makes it feel like a summer memory in prose. The pacing is spot-on for lying on a towel: you can breeze through chapters between dips in the water, but the characters stick with you long after you close the book.

What I love most is how it toys with expectations. On the surface it's a typical opposites-attract romantic setup, but there's real depth: grief, creative block, and the quiet work of figuring out what you actually want. If you want lighter fare, try 'People We Meet on Vacation' by Emily Henry or 'The Flatshare' by Beth O'Leary for cozy laughs; if you want something that leans into queer best-friend romance with fireworks, 'Red, White & Royal Blue' is a riot. Even 'The Kiss Quotient' can be surprisingly tender between sunbathers.

Practical tip: pack a wide-brim hat and switch to the audiobook for the last hour of the day so you can watch the sunset hands-free. Bring a playlist of mellow indie and seaside soundscapes, and don’t be shy about dog-earing lines you want to reread later. Honestly, the book that feels like summer to you is the right one, but if you want my pick for pure, salty-sweet beach romance, I’ll always nudging you toward 'Beach Read'.

What Is The Best Book To Read On The Beach For Young Adults?

3 답변2025-09-03 14:08:01

If you want something that grips and melts at the same time, pick up 'We Were Liars'. I love how short and poetic it is — perfect for a sun-baked afternoon when you want to read something that feels like a wave: gentle at first and then hits harder than you expected. The rhythm of the sentences and the island setting give you that hollow, dreamy beach mood while the twist keeps you wide-awake; it’s the kind of book you can start before lunch and still be thinking about at sunset.

Bring a paperback or an e-reader with a backlight, because 'We Were Liars' benefits from rereads. After the twist, I always flip back and find little clues hidden in throwaway lines. If you want a companion vibe, toss 'To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before' in your bag for lighter laughs, or Nicola Yoon’s 'The Sun Is Also a Star' for another seaside-y, romantic read with big emotional beats. Pro tip: a chilled drink, a comfortable towel, and a playlist of lo-fi or indie folk make the pacing feel cinematic. And if the sky turns dramatic, that’s when the book really feels cinematic to me — pages turning like waves.

Which Book For Holiday Suits Beach Reading Best?

3 답변2025-09-04 10:59:28

If I'm packing a beach bag, I like to think about mood more than genre — do I want something sunshiny and silly, or a gentle story that lets the waves carry me away? For me, the perfect beach book is portable, has a strong hook, and either moves quickly or wraps you in atmosphere without demanding intense focus. A breezy rom-com or a page-turner thriller works wonders on a windy shore; a dreamy, lyrical novel can be lovely at golden hour when the light softens.

A few picks I actually reach for: 'One Day in December' for light, comforting romance with warm characters; 'The Martian' when I want humor and momentum — it's weirdly perfect for reading between dips; 'The Night Circus' for late-afternoon magic when the sea feels like it could be enchanted; and 'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine' if I want something that balances heart and humor without being emotionally exhausting. For a moodier seaside read, 'Where the Crawdads Sing' gives me marshy atmosphere that matches the ocean's edge.

Practical stuff: paperback or a basic e-reader is my go-to because sand and wind hate hardcover. I always bring a zip-lock, sunscreen for my hands, and a lightweight clip-on reading light if I plan to stay until dusk. If you like pacing, try pairing a short, fast read with one longer, immersive book — you get variety and won't feel stuck if the tide pulls you out of one story. Mostly, pick what you’ll be excited to unwrap between sunscreen slaps and ice cream drips.

What Themes Does Monkey Beach Explore?

5 답변2025-08-25 09:08:25

On a rain-splattered evening when I pulled 'Monkey Beach' back onto my lap, the themes hit me like the tide—slow, relentless, and full of hidden things.

At the surface it's about family and grief: the way loss ripples through a small community and reshapes relationships. The narrator's search for her brother folds into memories of childhood, abuse, alcoholism, and generations stitched together by both tenderness and trauma. Beneath that, there's a strong current of cultural survival—language, ceremony, and the talk between people and the land—and how colonial pressures erode those ties.

Then there's the spiritual thread. Spirits, visions, and the liminal space between life and death give the novel a magical realism pulse that makes the supernatural feel ordinary. It explores identity in the sense of belonging—who you are to your family, to your nation, and to the sea. Reading it felt like overhearing someone telling you why the shoreline matters; it left me quieter and more alert to the ways stories keep people intact.

Is There A Movie Adaptation Of Monkey Beach?

1 답변2025-08-25 05:07:37

Good news: there is a film adaptation of 'Monkey Beach'. I stumbled on this one a few years ago after rereading the book on a rainy afternoon, and I got that giddy thrill you get when a favorite novel gets the cinematic treatment. The movie was adapted from Eden Robinson's novel and directed by Loretta Todd. It premiered on the festival circuit around 2020 (Vancouver's festival scene was an early home for it) and has circulated through Canadian festivals and limited releases since then. If you loved the novel's mix of family drama, grief, and Indigenous spirituality, this film is a heartfelt attempt to translate those textures to the screen.

As a thirtysomething who grew up along the coast and leans on stories to connect me to place, I appreciated how the film leans into atmosphere. The movie follows Lisamarie—just like the book—portraying her memories, visions, and the slow unraveling of family secrets as she searches for her missing brother. The director keeps those haunting, liminal moments that made the novel feel so vivid: dreamlike sequences, encounters with ancestors, and that persistent pull of home. Of course, any adaptation has to trim and reconfigure material, so expect some shifts in pacing and a tighter focus on the visual storytelling rather than the novel's internal monologues.

Speaking from the perspective of someone who watches a lot of indie and literary adaptations, I think the casting and cinematography were purposeful choices that aim for authenticity. The film highlights Indigenous talent both in front of and behind the camera, which matters a lot when translating cultural nuance. Critics and festival audiences generally praised the performances and the moody, naturalistic visuals, though some readers of the book felt that certain interior layers—those intimate, restless voice notes from the novel—inevitably get lost when you move to film. That’s a trade-off I expected: movies can show the world in gorgeous, succinct images, but novels let you dwell in a character’s head for pages on end.

If you want to watch it, check Canadian festival archives, local indie cinema listings, or streaming platforms that carry Canadian films and Indigenous cinema. It has popped up on VOD/rental services at times, and libraries or university collections sometimes have copies too. Personally, I recommend pairing them: watch the movie to experience the visuals and atmosphere, then go back to the book to re-enter Lisamarie’s inner life at your own pace. Either way, it’s a moving pairing that kept me thinking about home and memory for days after—perfect for a late-night watch or a quiet weekend read.

What Historical Events Influence Monkey Beach Plot?

2 답변2025-08-25 10:33:51

Reading 'Monkey Beach' felt like holding a family album that was slowly bending and folding under the weight of history — and that sense of history is exactly what drives so much of the novel's emotional power. For me, the biggest historical threads are colonialism and its offshoots: the Indian Act-era policies that enforced assimilation, the missionaries who suppressed Indigenous spiritual life, and the potlatch ban that attacked public ceremony and kinship networks. Those policies didn't just erase rituals on paper; they fractured daily life, leaving gaps where old knowledge used to live. In 'Monkey Beach' those gaps show up as fragmented memory, a loss of language, and a generation of people trying to make sense of haunting things without the cultural scaffolding they once had.

Another layer that really shapes the plot is the legacy of residential schools and child removal practices — including the Sixties Scoop — along with broader patterns of state violence and systemic neglect. The novel doesn’t always name each policy explicitly, but you can feel their fingerprints in the characters’ struggles with addiction, intergenerational trauma, and fraught family relationships. The disappearances and deaths in the story echo a national pattern: missing and murdered Indigenous people, whose tragedies are often treated as isolated incidents rather than symptoms of long-standing social and political harms.

Environmental change and economic transformation also steer the narrative. Logging, industrial fishing, and the encroachment of resource extraction onto traditional territories don’t just change jobs; they alter spiritual relationships to land and sea. In 'Monkey Beach' the ocean and the old hunting grounds carry memory and grief — and when those places are threatened or commodified, characters lose more than income. Reading it aloud on a damp ferry ride once, I kept thinking about how the legal history of land dispossession and resource management — treaties, government policy, corporate logging — quietly shapes the choices people make in the book. Put all these threads together and you get a story where the supernatural sits next to bureaucratic reality, and both are shaped by history: the colonial laws, the cultural bans, the removal of children, and the steady economic pressures on coastal communities. It's heartbreaking and intimate, and every time I revisit the book I notice another historical shadow behind the personal scenes.

What Are Iconic Summer Beach Scenes In Romance Novels?

4 답변2025-08-27 09:48:42

Sun-drenched love scenes are my catnip, and beaches in romance novels hit that sweet spot of nostalgia, heat, and a little danger. I love how authors use sand and salt to strip characters down to their rawest emotions—think messy hair, bare feet, and a single heartfelt confession that feels inevitable. A few books come to mind instantly: 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' makes the beach into a living, breathing third character with bonfires, midnight swims, and that ache of first love; 'Beach Read' flips the trope by putting two very different writers in neighboring beach houses and letting the shoreline do the heavy emotional lifting.

Some beach scenes are quiet and devastating, like the lonely cliffs and tidal pull in 'On Chesil Beach', where the setting amplifies tension and regret. Others are cinematic: fireworks reflected on wet sand, hands sticky with salt and ice cream, or a surprise kiss under a lifeguard tower. I also adore the way older novels use seaside towns—'Persuasion' at Lyme Regis, for example—to stage pivotal encounters that hinge on changing tides.

When I flip through those pages on a hot afternoon, I can almost taste sunscreen and hear waves. If you want scenes that pair summer heat with romantic stakes, start with the ones above and be ready to get sandy.

What Outfits Do Cosplayers Wear For Summer Beach Conventions?

4 답변2025-08-27 09:01:12

Sunshine and cosplay are a combo I get way too excited about—beach conventions make people get creative with cooling fabrics and playful summer skins. I see everything from sleek swimwear recreations (think character-specific bikinis or one-pieces that match a character’s color scheme) to full-on beachwear mashups: sarongs, kimono-style robes turned lightweight, and even cleverly trimmed armor pieces made from craft foam so they don’t roast the wearer. Wigs are often thinned out or braided for airflow, and cosplayers swap heavy boots for sandals or water shoes that look right with the outfit.

Practical stuff is a big deal too: moisture-wicking fabrics, quick-dry liners, sunscreen-friendly makeup, and small repair kits tucked into fanny packs. Props get adapted for sand—floats, foam swords, or small parasols that double as shade and accessory. I also love seeing summer skins from 'Azur Lane' or 'One Piece' inspire entire groups; colors pop against the sea and photographers chase golden hour for that perfect glow. Honestly, the best beach cosplays balance the look with comfort, and when someone nails that, the photos and vibes are unbeatable.

What Fanfiction Tropes Use A Summer Beach Setting?

4 답변2025-08-27 16:23:14

Sunset-smeared sand and the distant crack of a bonfire are such a rich backdrop that I always picture a dozen tropes snapping into place the moment someone says 'beach'. The classic 'beach episode' is a catch-all — it can be a light, comedic detour where everyone wears summer clothes, awkward swimsuits appear, and a character finally gets roasted in a teasing way. From there you get 'first-kiss on the boardwalk', lots of 'sunburn misunderstandings' (I still laugh at fic where an orange-red shoulder becomes plot), and 'friends-to-lovers' slow-burns that use late-night walks and shared blankets to nudge chemistry forward.

Then there are the moodier options: 'hurt/comfort' after a cliffside fall, 'mermaid AU' or 'sea witch' fantasies that let authors reimagine canon with salty magic, and 'reunion' fics where estranged characters meet at a memorial or a summer festival by the pier. I love when writers throw in sensory details — the squeak of sand under flip-flops, salt sticking to sunscreen — because it turns a trope into a memory. If you’re plotting one, think about combining a small domestic slice-of-life moment with a larger reveal, like a secret letter found in a tide pool; that little contrast is gold to me.

What Are The Best Books To Read By The Beach This Summer?

3 답변2025-08-06 20:20:22

I've always been drawn to books that match the vibe of summer—light, breezy, and full of life. One of my top picks for beach reading is 'The Unhoneymooners' by Christina Lauren. It’s a hilarious enemies-to-lovers story set in a tropical paradise, perfect for soaking up the sun while laughing at the witty banter. Another great choice is 'Malibu Rising' by Taylor Jenkins Reid, which captures the essence of summer with its vivid descriptions of beach parties and family drama. For something more introspective yet still summery, 'Call Me by Your Name' by André Aciman is a beautiful, sensual read that feels like a warm breeze. These books all have that perfect balance of escapism and emotional depth, making them ideal companions for lazy days by the water.