This book was readable and I definitely found myself skimming quite a bit. Not a favorite. Thank you for the ARC.

I love a thriller that centers around family drama, and The Summer We Lost Her falls right into that category. Matt and Elise's relationship is on the brink of ending, and when they decide to sell their cabin that has been in Matt's family for a very long time, their daughter Grace goes missing. And Matt's ridiculously attractive ex shows up--because she lives next door. Everything is strange in this book, and it kept me guessing until the end what exactly was going to happen and if Matt and Elise's relationship would survive. This was such a good book!

Heart-wrenching and suspenseful, The Summer We Lost Her kept you guessing until the very end. Did they find the missing child?


Synopsis:
It’s been a busy—and expensive—few years for Matt and Elise Sorenson and their young daughter Gracie, whom they affectionately call Little Green. Matt, a Manhattan lawyer, has just been offered a partnership, and Elise’s equestrian ambitions as a competitive dressage rider may finally vault her into the Olympics. But her long absences from home and endless hours of training have strained their relationships nearly to the breaking point.

Now they’re up in the Adirondacks, preparing to sell the valuable lakefront cabin that’s been in Matt’s family for generations. Both he and Elise agree it’s time to let it go. But as they navigate the memories the cabin holds—and come face to face with Matt’s teenage crush, now an unnervingly attractive single mother living right next door—Gracie disappears without a trace.

Faced with the possibility that they’ll never see their daughter again, Elise and Matt struggle to come to terms with what their future may bring. The fate of the family property, the history of this not-so-tiny town, and the limits of Matt and Elise’s love for each other are inextricably bound up with Gracie’s disappearance. Everything for the Sorenson family is about to change—the messy tangle of their past, the harrowing truth of their present, and whether or not their love will survive a parent’s worst nightmare.

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So it took me almost several months to get through the first half of this book and only 3 days for the second half. Why? you ask... because the development of the story was lengthy. I usually avoid reading the book summaries because I like to go into the book with a clear mind. After not getting far into the book , I read the summary. It took more than 50% of the book before Gracie disappears. I felt like the author could have moved that up earlier in the book to sink her hooks in the reader and then worked more on the development of the characters histories.
That being said, I did enjoy this book a lot. It's been compared to Picoult, but I disagree. This author has her own style. The book was suspenseful and well developed making me uncomfortable when my favorite MC's did something I disagreed with.
Overall a very good book about relationships, parenthood and life choices.

This was a character-driven suspense/domestic drama about a missing child and, even more so, family dynamics. I found the first 75% to be pretty good and I was turning the pages to find out if they would find the missing girl. The ending didn’t entirely work for me. I felt that it was implausible and contrived. Still, an overall good read.

I enjoyed watching the family drama in this book play out. It was really realistic because the everyday struggles they face and the hardships of balancing everything in life really came through in this novel. The additional strain of losing there daughter and them trying to overcome the trauma was really inspiring. The fact that all the people in this book were all good people and there wasn't anything super dark was a plus because those kinds of stories are all I have been reading lately.

Matt and Elise are a couple with a lot of ambition. Matt is a lawyer and Elise is an Olympic level equestrian who has to spend a lot of time away to train. They have a daughter, Gracie, who they call Little Green. They leave the city for a final time at Matt's family property in the Adirondacks. They've decided to let the property go and Gracie disappears-a parent's worse nightmare! Matt and Elise have to make decisions and move past some decisions that have hurt each other. I enjoyed the setting of this book, the equestrian element, and the likable characters.

This book starts off as an intriguing story of a family facing the dilemma of balancing two careers, while caring for their young daughter. It develops into much more, as the characters discover things about their family histories and its impact on their present. They become surrounded by a mystery that will change the course of their lives. The characters are well developed, and the story pulls you in, slowly at first, and then keeps you turning pages until the intense ending. All in all, a good, solid summer mystery.

Really well written family drama surrounding a family's stay at their summer place while preparing it for sale. There are many turns in this story including the kidnapping of their only child, the husband's first love living next door and a cast of characters who seem to alternately revere and loath the family. Both Matt and ;Elise are nearing the top of their careers but what will they sacrifice to get it?

This is the ultimate domestic drama that deals with marital issues. Any book that involves the disappearance of a child tears at my heart. I can’t imagine a feeling worse. There are the typical thrill moments amidst the mystery. Experiencing the difficulty of handling work and family makes you feel like you are right there living the story. Even though the characters may make some mistakes, they aren’t bad people. They just make bad decisions. But can forgiveness be discovered by the end?

Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery Books for my advanced review copy. All opinions and thoughts are my own.

Heartbreaking, depressing, and sad. It also made me angry. This book definitely brought out all the emotions in me. Can't say I enjoyed it but this was engrossing.

Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this title.

This book was just okay for me and I definitely found myself skimming quite a bit.

This is your typical domestic drama story. There's not much going on, but I'd recommend it for an easy read that doesn't require much thought.

The writing is gorgeous, but so much of it is specific details about Elise's life as a dressage rider that the average reader might not be intrigued enough to keep going. These details, plus the exquisitely drawn setting, set this book apart from other books about missing children.

The Summer We Lost Her by Tish Cohen is a domestic mystery. I was really intrigued by this novel because of the description which described this book as similar to other domestic thrillers. This book was definitely suspenseful and surprising at times. But I found it really hard to like this book for a few reasons. First, the characters were not likable or relatable. Also, the ending just was not satisfying for some reason. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher with no obligations. These opinions are entirely my own.

A very gripping and emotional story! I loved this book very much! I also loved the emotional depth of the characters. A must read!!

The Summer We Lost Her by Tish Cohen is a family drama, with a bit of mystery, centered around the Sorensen family. Matt is a Manhattan lawyer from a very prominent family in Lake Placid, New York. Elise is a competitive dressage rider with her sights on the Olympics. Together they have a young daughter, Gracie, who has disability. When they go to Lake Placid to sell some family property to help finance Elise’s Olympic goals they find their time spent there will either save their marriage or end it.

Elise and Matt are from two very different worlds and The Summer We Lost Her shows how that affects the way they see things and their place in the world. There were many times when this couple frustrated me. They are both very flawed people who both have to come to terms with the past and the demons that have followed them. Though they frustrated me I did find myself engaged and rooting for them. I enjoyed watching as different realizations came to each of them.

I enjoyed learning more about the sport of dressage and the time, money, and sacrifice that goes into Olympic goals. And the conflict of such an athlete who is also a wife and a mother.

While in Lake Placid, Matt and Elise’s daughter, Gracie, disappears. I wanted to know who took Gracie, and whether or not she would be found. The answer did surprise me and was something I did not see coming. I felt though that the story was more about how Matt and Elise handled such an awful time rather than about what happened to Gracie. They each handled the tragedy differently and their upbringing and past experiences are shown to contribute to how they handled things and I found that look into their lives very fascinating.

This is a family drama that I really enjoyed. I enjoyed the look into the complications in a family and also the forgiveness that a family needs to have. Though there were a couple of times that forgiveness came a bit to quickly and easily to make it feel realistic, I did feel the author handled it in a way that I could buy. The story also shows development of self worth and how that worth changes the way you look at life.

Tish Cohen is the author of five previous novels, including The Truth About Delilah Blue. Her latest release, The Summer We Lost Her, is an exquisitely constructed, emotionally rich look at a family in crisis and the ways in which spouses Elise and Matt navigate the unimaginable.

Elise is a devoted wife to Matt and mother to Gracie, but she is also chasing an Olympic dream. With her beloved horse, Indie, known for his winning combination of enthusiasm and charm, she hopes to qualify to compete in the dressage event. Wearing white gloves and tails, dressage riders navigate their steeds through precise routines, some of which are set to music. The sport is not just technically exacting. It's expensive, requiring a vast financial investment in the ownership, care, and transportation of the horse, training, and endless hours of practice. Elise's life is a constant balancing act -- training, competitions, travel, and spending time with her family all compete for her time and attention. It wasn't always that way. After a devastating accident while she was pregnant with Gracie, Elise did not get back on a horse for three years and it was only through an intervention in which Matt participated that she resumed training. But Elise carries a substantial amount of guilt -- about a few things, not the least of which are promises made to Gracie she has had to break and milestones she has missed.

Matt has been understanding and supportive (emotionally and financially), but the strain of being a single parent much of the time is taking a toll on him, as well as the marriage and Gracie, and has gotten to be too much for Matt. Elise's ambitions have impacted his own career as an attorney. Now he's been offered a partnership with his law firm after toiling as an associate for eleven years -- because he has been thus far to devote the hours to his practice required in order to advance. Matt has made a decision and plans to announce it to Elise . . . as soon as she returns home for a much-needed break with the family.

As Elise finally arrives home and the family embarks on a summer break at the lakefront cabin Matt inherited from his grandfather in beautiful Lake Placid. Just like Matt, Elise is at a crossroads and needs to talk with Matt about the family's future and whether it can accommodate both of their dreams. From the outset, Cohen establishes that there are no villains in her story. Matt and Elise love each other, their child, and the family they have formed deeply. But both are painfully aware that the stresses of their competing needs have pushed them to the brink of breaking. And something or someone will have to give in order to find resolution.

Cohen quickly endears the Sorenson family to readers. Through a highly effective third-person narrative, she takes readers into Matt and Elise's internal struggles and evaluations of their priorities, limitations, and willingness to compromise or even sacrifice in order to keep their family intact, Through flashbacks, Cohen reveals their history as a couple, as well as with Matt's late grandfather, a man who showed a different side of himself to Elise than to Matt. Matt always believed the man was a pillar of the close-knit community of Lake Placid -- a generous benefactor to those in need, if a shrew businessman and investor who amassed a large and highly marketable parcel of land upon which the old cabin that needs significant improvements sits. But there may have been much more to him and his business transactions that Matt ever imagined.

And then the unthinkable happens. On what should be a happy morning, Gracie vanishes without a trace. As the frantic search for her unfolds, Matt and Elise respond to the crisis quite differently. Cohen appropriately accelerates the narrative's pace, and credibly portrays the myriad emotions the parents experience, wavering from utter to despair to unsparing determination to never give up looking for their girl. For good measure, Cohen includes a romantic complication in the form of Matt's high school girlfriend, now permanently residing next door, as well as a mystery surrounding the true motivation and machinations of Matt's grandfather.

The Summer We Lost Her is a believable exploration of the real stresses associated with wanting to "have it all" -- career, marriage, family -- and the not-so-subtle ways in which the resultant challenges impact men and women differently. Cohen makes readers first-hand observers of Matt and Elise's inner turmoil and reveals the excruciatingly painful journey of losing a child in what may be the cruelest way imaginable. How does a parent come to terms with the disappearance of a child and, perhaps, never learning what happened to him/her?

The Summer We Lost Her is, at times, heartbreaking, but always compulsively readable and thoroughly engrossing. Cohen challenges readers to ponder their own capacity for resiliency and to withstand stressors they encounter in their own lives, as well as how they would react under similar circumstances. Cohen's compassion for her characters is evident from start to finish as she takes each of them to the outer limit of their capacity to cope . . . and then a bit further. She also imbues the story with hope and provides a believable and emotionally satisfying conclusion to her tautly-crafted tale.

I thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book. This author was new to me and I was not let down. It was a great story and very well written. The characters were easy to relate to and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I highly recommend this to everyone!!

This book definitely was a difficult read as a mother, but that didn't keep me from enjoying it. The first quarter of the book is a slow burn, but after Grace's abduction I hard time putting it down. While aspects of this book left me cringing, I found it completely enjoyable. I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a domestic drama with a mystery thrown in.

What I loved about this book:

~This book has multiple talking points that would make it an amazing book club pick. The domestic drama aspect of it will be very relatable to many readers who have been/are married.

~Elise is a highly successful, working mother to Grace. While it's very common for women to be a major part of the work force today, there are still certain judgements they deal with daily. Elise's reactions to those situations are realistic and I really enjoyed her character.

~ I thought the topic of forgiveness and redemption was a great aspect of this book. When we hold onto grudges the person we hurt most is ourselves.

What kept me from giving this book 5⭐?

~ While I don't have an issue reading a slow burn, this book never really seemed to pick up pace for me. While I definitely feel like this book is worth the read, I thought the slow pace of the book needed to be mentioned. Also, because Elise was a working mother she was unfairly blamed for what went wrong. This was a bit offputting and took away from some of my enjoyment.