I am late to reviewing this title but it may be a good one for moms and daughters as the U.S. Mother’s Day holiday approaches.

Faith is aptly named as she may need some help believing in her life and her mother. She has found hard won security as a chef in a fine Manhattan restaurant. All is going well when her mother gets in touch to tell Faith something that Faith finds preposterous-Connie has won a B and B on the New Jersey shore. Can this be legit? Faith will try to find out.

Faith goes to the Jersey shore. While there, a storm, a big hurricane blows in. What else blows in with it to unsettle Faith? Who else will she get to know? Will she and her mother come together in their relationship with a new respect and liking for each other? Read this title to find out.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Lake Union for this title. All opinions are my own.

They win a B&B on the Jersey shore, a hurricane hits, then they house some displaced people. Great premise and well-told story. Sucked me in from the beginning and I just really related to the characters and got swept away by the tale.

I liked it but I didn’t love it. The story was long in the way a mini-series is long. It wasn’t wordy exactly but the story could have ended in a number of places and felt complete without any additional story.

What a nice spring read! I love the way in which Patricia writes. I could picture the shore, The Mermaid's Purse, and all the quirky characters perfectly!

There are several conflicts throughout the story - mother/daughter, mother/son, boyfriend/girlfriend, town/storm and so many others.

The main conflict, faith v. herself. What does she want for her life? Can she reconnect with her mother and work through the past mistakes? Can she learn to let go and live the life that she was intended to live?

All these questions and more are answered and I loved the trials and tribulations every step of the way. The crazy family unit of The Mermaid's Purse will pull at your heartstrings and leave you wanting more.

A great story which I enjoyed. Faith's mother Connie wins a run down bed and breakfast in a competition. Faith is a chef in an upmarket restaurant and enjoys her life. Hurricane Nadine strikes and Faith rushes to be with her Mother at Wave's End. When the hurricane has passed the area is devastated, so her mother takes homeless people into the bed and breakfast. Faith and her Connie start to reconnect an we meet the guests and learn their stories. A good read!

A must–read book on mother daughter relationship. Faith is exasperated with her mother’s naivety and innocent mind when she gets duped by scammers. But the latest was when she supposedly wins a bed–and–breakfast inn, Mermaid’s Purse which is nothing like the picture depicted. Faith is at wit’s end with this Mermaid’s Purse at Wave’s End. A cyclone Nadine destroys the town and brings out the physical and emotional upheavals…

This is my first book by the author Patricia Perry Donovan, and what a beautiful read it was. It was everything the story promised and more. She has done a fabulous job describing a mother and daughter relationship sometimes coated with frustration, with anger, fights, skirmishes, arguments, but always on the background of love.

I love stories like this, where love is depicted in so many ways. The author has made the main character Faith as the too controlling street smart daughter, who learns to calm down and start trusting her mother, and the mother Connie, as the naive and innocent victim of most online scams, who learns to be confident and start trusting herself.

I loved the play by play moments of emotions on the landscape of a relationship which is at tether hooks sometimes. It is due to love that Faith moves to protect her mother, it is due to love that Connie tells Faith everything, even when she knows she would be rebuked for it. Every nuance of a mother daughter relationship, including long hidden secrets, is explored here.

The author Patricia has shown a beautiful facet of humanity, a natural calamity, though it brings devastation and loss, it also brings the inner innate humane into surface. Strangers come together and show love, compassion, and life-long friendship. Such bonds, forged in moments of need, are forever bound by kindness and gratitude.

Patricia has great power over her writing, every word adds to the story, every sentence is a beautiful vision and every page reads like a scene of a movie.

The book, its story and its characters, is a tight weave of emotions, and Patricia is the weaver who joins them all together in a bond arising from destruction but surviving in friendship, with moments of hope and ever binding love…

Thank you for writing this book, Patricia, you brought me warmth and a strength to look into the brighter tomorrow. This I swear to the Moon and Stars…

I received an ARC from NetGalley and publisher, Lake Union Publishing and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.

I read and enjoyed Patricia Perry Donovan's first book Deliver Her for a TLC Book Tour last year so when she contacted me several months ago and asked if I would read and review her new book, At Wave's End, I agreed of course. My good intentions to read and review the book when it published in August didn't quite happen. I did read and enjoy the book but did not get around to making a dish and posting a review. Since then several states and communities--most recently Puerto Rico--have suffered severe hurricane damage, which makes a book about it very current. As I read through the book again, deciding on a dish to make for my usual book and food pairing, my thoughts and heart are with all of those who are suffering the after-effects of storms like the book's fictional Hurricane Nadine (based after Hurricane Sandy back in 2012).

At Wave's End is about more than a hurricane on the Jersey Shore, it's about the relationship between a mother and daughter, and a book about taking chances and finding yourself--all things I enjoy reading about. With the main character Faith, being a chef, it also has an strong element of foodie fiction in it. As in her first book, Perry Donovan creates characters that are believable and relatable. Both Faith and her somewhat flighty mother Connie are engaging, as are the supporting characters--mainly the people that stay in the bed and breakfast due to the storm. Faith's harder edges soften and are understandable when you look at her upbringing and Connie has hidden depths to her personality that are not easily seen at the beginning of the story. Despite having heavy topics like the storm and its aftermath worked into the story, overall At Wave's End leans to the lighter side--there is romance, plenty of food, a balance of humorous and poignant moments, and the way the community comes together in a difficult time is heartwarming. A very enjoyable read and I look forward to the author's next book.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC for my Kindle.
This book is an easy beach read. Dealing with a mother-daughter relationship and the ins and outs of running a B&B, the book was a basically good book.

Being a jersey shore girl I adored this novel. Fun and page turning. My first read of this author but not my last

This is a sweet story that focuses on the aftermath of a hurricane on the East Coast. A good summer read.

Faith's mom Connie is a dreamer. Faith is practical. She's used to her mom following one dream after another. This time, Connie has really won the contest. She won a bed and breakfast called The Mermaid's Purse in a town called Wave's End. When a big storm threatens to hit, Faith heads to Wave's End planning to keep her mom safe.

Mermaid's Purse fares way better than anywhere else in town and soon the b&b becomes temporary housing for the locals. Faith takes over on the kitchen, along with another chef named David.

The cast of characters thrown together because of the storm form a tight bond. When the future of Mermaid's Purse is threatened, they have to band together.

It feels very timely, given all the natural disasters we've had lately.

I liked the characters, I also enjoyed the description of the meals.
There was a good bit of drama going on here. I could have appreciated a bit less. It seemed like the characters had a lot to deal with.

Sweet story.

I got to read an early copy through NetGalley.

I like food so I did like the idea of a setting in an upmarket Manhattan restaurant where Faith works as a chef for relentlessly long hours but is blissfully happy in her job. Her mother however is another story - always falling for a hard luck story and keeping her on the straight and narrow has been Faith's responsibility. Now just a couple of months away from getting a pension Faith faces a quandary. Her mother in one of her infamous lottery schemes has actually won something. A bed and breakfast inn, which looks idyllic on the coast of Jersey Shore.

Knowing very well that her mother will get taken in, Faith is determined to accompany her mother to the Inn and then get her to turn around and return. The whole thing falls apart when Nature (like the present tornadoes, hurricanes and bad weather) turns the Jersey Coast into a nightmare and Faith and her mother Connie are both stuck - one by choice and one by circumstances. Overnight Faith's dream job has disappeared in the storm damage and she decides to wait behind till things change, hopefully for the better.

A story of a fragile understanding between mother and daughter developing into a more solid relationship, lots of romance and stories of human nature and survival in the face of impending crisis is the basis of this story.

The settings helped the story along.

With lots of cooking and chefs involved this is a book for those of us who like food.

Goodreads and Amazon reviews are posted on 21/9/2017. Review on my blog 26/10/2017. Also linked to my FB page.

Mother's and daughters don't always see things the same way, as many of us who are both mothers and daughters know well. In this beautifully written story, Faith and her mother Connie don't see eye to eye on many things. As a result of her upbringing, Faith feels that she is the adult in the relationship, always needing to remind her mother of what to do and when to do it, a responsibility she does not happily embrace. In another of her schemes, Connie enters a contest to win a bed and breakfast at the New Jersey shore...and much to the dismay of her daughter, wins. Will this completely destroy their relationship? A beautiful story from beginning to end!

Faith is worried about her mother, Connie, after she wins a bed and breakfast in a contest. Down on the Jersey shore, the hurricane arrives shortly after, displacing many and causing much damage to the already crumbling Mermaid's Purse. The story of how Faith and her mom repair their relationship, as well as broaden their "family" with the new boarders, is heartwarming as well as well written. Based on the real Hurricane Sandy, this novelist has produced a lovely read.

This is the story of Faith, a chef who is trying to outrun her horrible childhood caused by her Mother. She is happy in her life and enjoys her career as a chef. When her Mother calls and claims she has won a property on the East Coast beach area, Faith goes immediately to stop her Mother and thinks it is all a ruse. When she arrives she finds it is not a scam and her Mother indeed does own the Inn on the beach. Soon after a terrible hurricane blows in . The Mother daughter relationship that was strained for so long is tested and then reaches new understanding. This is heartfelt, a sweet story and also heartbreaking in the descriptions of the hurricane damage.

An enjoyable book, easy to read, written clear, and simple style.
A horrific hurricane highlights the first pages, as a daughter tries frantically to get to her mother.
The description of the storm and its aftermath is vivid and so accurate. Heartbreaking to read of the resident's efforts, to cope with the devastation fighting a sense of helplessness and hopelessness.
There is of course, a beautiful lesson- catastrophe can bring out the best in people.
A group rallies to forget their own troubles as they work to restore property, lift spirits to come together in love and a sense of community.
Definitely a good read!

First of all, this is going to be a difficult review to write in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and the people of Texas. My thoughts and prayers go out to them all.

This too is about a hurricane, Hurricane Nadine, in Wave's End. There was a lot of devastation in this coastal town , but this is a book about resilience and survival. It is about a community that comes together to help one another. It is a story of loss, love, compassion, empathy and strength. This is the story about Faith and her Mom, Connie, who won a bed and breakfast in Wave's End, just as it is hit with a hurricane. It is about the people of Wave's End coming together to help each other and it turn, it helps the relationship between Faith and her Mom. I must say that I loved this story. It is more about the love of people than about the Hurricane itself. It made me cry and laugh. It is a story of hope. It is a book that will make you feel. The characters, main and secondary, are richly developed and the story is a seamlessly woven tapestry. It flows like a river from beginning to end. It is a quick read, because you just don't want to put it down. Hope abounds in this book and it is truly a pleasure to have read it. Pick it up and see for yourself. This is a work of fiction, but to all those now and in the past who have gone through hurricane's, you are in my heart.

What has Connie gotten herself into this time? Faith, sweet, frustrated Faith, has had it to the moon and stars with her mother’s contest entries and pyramid schemes. Each time, will be the time it will work out. This time is, of course, no different. Connie is so close to retirement and pension when she up and wins a B&B on the Jersey coast by writing an essay to the current owner. Faith, let’s just say, is a little less than thrilled. A chef in NYC, she has rescued her mother more times than she can count and is not looking forward to having to do it again. Donovan whips up a wonderful tale of mother and daughter at odds, during a hurricane no less. Each dealing with their own issues, separately and together, throw in some whacky local charm, some unexpected guests, and you have yourself a wonderful book to ride out the storm.

I’d like to thank the author, Patricia Perry Donovan, and Lake Union Publishing for the honor of receiving this book in exchange for an unbiased review and of course NetGalley for the technology to make it possible.

I was given a free copy of this book for by honest review.

The story follows Faith a chef and how her life was changed by hurricane Nadine ( inspired by events from hurricane Sandy). It's a light read with a little bit of everything friends, family, romance and personal development. I think the book had a good story line I just don't think it was executed to its full potential. There was something missing.
I hate to say this but I didn't enjoy this read 😕 #sorrynotsorry

I felt that the characters weren't developed enough. I really didn't care for their problems and I wasn't emotionally connected to them. I feel the base of a good story was there it just need a little extra hmp to make it an enjoyable read.

The romance was missing the connection. I seriously thought to myself I don't get how they are together? They just happened.
I love books with friendships but again here they weren't developed. The things they did for each other here weren't believable. I was thinking ok so how are these people friends?
I disliked Faith the main character from the beginning of the story. She came off as pretentious but as the story progressed her character read a little better. At the end I still didn't like the her character but I didn't hate her anymore.
Also, the story felt disjointed. With 99 chapters in a book about 350 pages you would think it would have a better flow. Why were there so many chapters? The story was missing transitions and I don't feel the story unfolded in a natural manner it felt rushed and incomplete.
I really wanted to like this story but alas it wasn't for me. (Rating: 📚) #the_reading_foodie #foodie #fatty  #pizza #pepperoni #mushroom #friedchicken #bookstagram #foodstagram #alwayseating #alwaysreading #readingandeating #readingissexy #books #bookish #read #reader #booklover #bookslut #booknerd #bookgeek #bookworm #readersofinstagram #summerread #bookish #book #readabook #bookreview #atwavesend #patriciaperrydonovan

At Wave's End by Patricia Perry Donovan, is a book about a woman who's mother wins a Bed & Breakfast in New Jersey and she feels it is the worse thing her mother has done. This book is about love, friendships and people working together to get things done. I read this book within hours it was so good. I imagine it will be a best seller I highly recommend this book for all to read. It is a journey from the first day they see the Bed & Breakfast to when it is saved. A great read