Two sisters, Margot and Sunshine had a tough childhood being raised by their grandmother and were very unlucky in love. During the summer, Sunshine gets a job as a nanny and Margot who is a kind of life coach gets a difficult client who was a famous actress.
Susan Mallery entertains you throughout the book with romance, heartache and laughs.

Sunshine and Margot are as different as night and day as sisters. As different as they are, the two are very close. Sunshine is trying to get her life on track, and Margot feels like her life is always on a track and moving along to a plan. Throw in a few bumps, and see what happens as they both learn to cope. Very fun and engaging, with lots of humor and real moments that illustrate family.

I love Susan Mallery’s writing. She wrote Fool’s Gold series which is one of my favorite series of hers. I loved that this book had multiple relationships in it - father and son, father and mother, sisters and girlfriend and boyfriend. It was so easy to follow all the relationships and be enthralled in all of them. Both Alec and Declan are guys that you find yourself falling for. I also love Sunshine and Margot’s relationship. I love reading about sisters. I really hope this becomes part of a series and we can read more about Sunshine and Margot. I would be very interested to see how both of their relationships progress. This was an enjoyable read!

“The Baxter woman are not known for good choices in men “
This is what Margot and her twin sister Sunshine believe .
Sunshine is a nanny , whose sworn off men and Margot’s an etiquette teacher who finds comfort in rules .
Each one finds themselves in similar but different situations, as live in employees .
I enjoyed this book and the characters were very engaging and I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.
I had no idea what this book was about but I knew that if it was written by Susan Mallery I couldn’t go wrong !

A warm and wonderful story!

Fraternal twins, Margot and Sunshine, have turned thirty and they’re ready to make changes in their lives.

Margot set aside her own career to follow her boyfriend around the world, but no more. She focuses on her job as a etiquette coach and tries to leave the past behind. When her new client is an eccentric movie star with a distracting son who lives in a renovated monastery, her life takes an interesting turn.

Sunshine is tired of her flighty ways. She decides to go to college and pay for the courses by caring for an eight-year-old sweetheart and his irresistible father.

The standout in this book is the sister’s connection and support of each other. Maybe because they were abandoned as children and lived with an elderly grandparent, Margot and Sunshine completely have each other’s backs. It was refreshing to read a heartwarming story without a lot of the chaos that regularly fills the news.

The settings are sublime. Ms. Mallery does a beautiful job drawing the reader into the story– I wanted to visit the monastery and the gardens in the worst way!

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for this enjoyable read.

I give The Summer of Sunshine and Margot 4 lovely kisses!

I enjoy Susan Mallery's books. I have read many.
I kept seeing this book in upcoming releases - decided to try.

2 sisters making a change
2 sisters needing a change
then changing their lives

This was a good read about sisters who love each other even though they are very different
and both help each other through the rough parts to get to the better parts.

I enjoyed this book. I was confused at first with the names of the main characters. Twins don’t usually have such different names. Sunshine shoulder like a spoiled hippie child but she turned out to be very responsible when it came to childcare. Margot, well I’m still not sure what her job was but the outcome was not a surprise for either sisters. Even though it was possible to know the ending when you started the storyline or the telling of the story kept me interested till the end.

Sunshine and Margot are fraternal twin sisters, both have challenging careers and both have inherited the family relationship curse. The sisters each conquer their demanding job assignments, but will they succeed in having happy ever after?

Thank you Netgalley and Harlequin Books for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Summer of Sunshine and Margot by Susan Mallery is a good romance novel where the two main protagonists are placed in interesting situations. Sunshine and Margot are twins which were raised by their great-grandma and both have obvious commitment issues when dealing with the opposite sex. It was refreshing to have the two male love interests (Declan and Alec) be flawed as well and the author does a capable job of equally exposing the thought process of the two couples (of course, you know the couple will get together in the end - it is a Susan Mallery book).

I loved the fleshing out of the characters and felt like I know them and as a result, I cared about them. For this reason, I will recommend the book. The sub plot characters of Bianca and Connor were artfully drawn, as well, and I wanted everything to work out successfully for all involved.

The irritant, for me, is the selection of the names for the twins. No mother is going to name their twins Sunshine and Margot. Coming from a family where multiple births are common, there is usually a connection. Either the names start with the same letter or rhyme or are family names. Sunshine is too hippy and Margot is too foreign/serious. The twins, as written, are not similar in physical attributes but do have a deep and common reaction to commitment. I get this but the names bothered me throughout the novel. Now, the title is based on the names so I hated the title. The action does not take place during the Summer and a better season choice would be Spring as the characters are blossoming. I understand the title may be a marketing choice but I still would change it. Instead of thinking of what a clever and misleading title it is, I just think it is stupid.

The parallel stories of how Sunshine and Margot — the Baxter sisters — overturn the multi-generational curse of bad taste in men. It’s fabulous fluff as only Susan Mallery can write. Lovable female characters (including a gorgeous and eccentric movie idol) and a delightfully bifurcated male population — they’re either complete dirtbags or a woman’s idea of a perfect man.

A great beach (or rainy day or any day you need a pick-me-up) read.

Susan Mallery has the talent of a gifted writer. Her latest novel is just as warm amd comfortable as anything else she has written. Sunshine and Margot are sisters trying to shake precious nad habits: one who usually follows men on flaky jaunts and the other who just followed a self absorbed jerk. They each find men who slowly realize the sisters are the women for them. It's a slow buildup, with the really good action not starting until well over halfway through the story. Add in humorous scenes, spicy dialogue, tender moments and what you have is pure Mallery magic,

This is the story of two very different sisters. Margot helps people learn to navigate new social and work situations. Sunshine is a nanny who has gone back to school.
The sisters upbringing was traumatic and has left them both with unresolved issues.

The characters in the book all have their quirks but you can relate to them. This was an enjoyable read that I would recommend. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy.

It’s been some years since I’ve read a Susan Mallery contemporary romance. This one has me wanting to kick myself for the deprivation. It’s so good ya’ll!

The Summer of Sunshine and Margot checks all the boxes for me. It’s smart, honest, intimate and darn entertaining. It’s chockfull of relationships that aren’t perfect but feel so authentic. Like so often in the real world, every character has at least one thing in his/her life that when viewed from the outside, appears one way, but in truth, creates for or reminds the character of a great injustice.

Goodness, it has heart and heat and idiots (male and female alike). But probably best of all, we get to witness four amazing characters find their HEA with their ideal someone. It’s perfect!

This was a light read for sure. I'm finding lately how convenient it is in the fiction world for women to find men and places to live, right when they need it. I really enjoyed California Girls by Susan Mallery, but this one felt off a little. The writing was usual, however I did find it odd that when it came to sex scenes, the language became more rough than anywhere else in the book, and it felt forced and not consistent with the rest of the writing. I'm not a prude, I read my share of erotica, but in this book, this story - using those rough words in the writing just seemed unnecessary.

Not sure I would recommend this to anyone but I didn't hate it, so you be the judge.

The Summer of Sunshine and Margot take a look self-image and perceptions of oneself. Summer and Margot are sisters who struggle to turn their life around while struggling with their own perception of themselves. Summer tries to head toward a brighter future without making the same mistakes in her past and Margot tries to let go of a past relationship that only shows her the worst of herself. Susan Mallery takes these two sisters uses their history to show us their version of themselves and at the same time provides outside perspective that shows how others view them. It's nice to see that their version of themself does not stop them from trying to reach for a different future or hope for better outcomes. They both have their ups and down but with the help from their loved ones they are able to head for the future that they want.

This story follows two sisters unlucky in love who vow to make changes to their lives. Sunshine and Margot are opposites in appearance but both have big hearts which lead to careers helping others. Their careers, in turn, help them find what they really want in life. This book is heartwarming, sweet, funny and a little steamy!

Susan Mallery has a knack for writing books that you just hate to put down once you've started. This latest novel features twin sisters that are almost polar opposites but yet still very much the same. Sunshine and Margot realize they come from a long line of women that have not been successful in love. And so far neither have they, but both realize they need to change their own lives before they can ever hope to find love. While there is an element of romance to the story, I would classify this more as women's fiction than romance since it is not the central focus. However, readers will still enjoy the HEA both sisters are able to achieve even as they both make fundamental life changes.

This novel takes place over a few months. Margot and Sunshine are fraternal twin sisters, raised by a grandmother, who has since passed away. Margot has gone to college and used her people skills and her love of travel to become an etiquette coach. She is particularly good at helping people adjust to new cultural situations. She has just been hired by Bianca, an older actress, well-known for her spontaneous and inappropriate behaviour that is engaged to a diplomat from a small European country. Bianca wants to make this relationship work. Meanwhile, she is living with her son Alec, an academic with an interest in history who has made a home of an historic monastery. Bianca wants Margot to live in while she coaches her.
Margot finds the monastery fascinating and uses her off time to explore the building and the grounds. She also becomes friendly with Alec.
While successful, Margot has a weak spot for her old boyfriend, a man who has dumped her repeatedly, but keeps coming back expecting to resume where he left off. Margot is determined that he won't be in her life again, but with a family history of women making bad relationship choices, she isn't hopeful for a better relationship.
Sunshine didn't go to college, finding herself easily diverted from her goals by the interesting men she's met along the way. She's had a spotty career as a nanny, making great connections with the children, but often leaving everyone in the lurch when someone attracts her interest. She too, is determined to stay the course in her new position as nanny to eight-year-old Connor. She's also determined to get her college degree, signing up for her first course. Connor's father Declan is worried about his son as the two recover from the relatively sudden death of Connor's mother from cancer. He has a busy career as a landscape architect, and needs some stability in his son's life. Sunshine and Declan prove to be sounding boards for each other as they each move forward in their lives.
This was a fun read, and I liked the relationship between the sisters, which was close without being cloying.

I just realized that I love Susan Mallory's writing! I've been reading her books off and on, but this book made me sit up and pay attention to how much I enjoy her stories. Sunshine and Margot are so well written that I would have happily kept reading about them long after Mallory put her pen down (or turned off her computer!)

'm at the point in the school year where it's tough to focus on much of anything. And I'm not even the least little bit in the mood to try to stretch my focus. So a Susan Mallery book is perfect to read. The story is sensual and the characters are well written. Although I find it a stretch to believe that Margot and Sunshine are even the least little bit related, much less twins. As always, Mallery's settings are lovely and they leave me wanting to visit these fictional places. And, not a spoiler, it is hard to imagine a Susan Mallery novel that doesn't have a happy ending. Add this book to your beach/pool bag.

3.5 stars, rounded up.