The cover and premis of the story sold me on this book. Unfortunately, the story did not live up to its promise. A vacation filled with drama and mishaps.

Characters were mainly boring and unlikeable. I am a worrier, and Jenna made me look zen! Solely and Peter were immature and chauvinistic. The teenagers acted like teenagers! Ingrid, Solly’s Wife, was raising a high strung child, with no help from her husband or discipline.

I would give this author another try, the story flew off the pages. I just kept hoping something more would happen. But, by the time it did, the book was basically done.

I received an ARC of this book. Opinion is my own.

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Tomorrow There Will Be Sun is a look inside two families’ luxury vacation in Mexico. Celebrating both husbands 50th birthdays, the trip should have been the vacation of a lifetime, but family drama changes those expectations. While the book held my interest to the end, I felt that the more interesting story to tell would have been what came after the vacation. The narrator, Jenna, comes across as unlikable for me. She had a fairly cushy life but finds so many things to complain about. She also seems clueless about her husband and daughter because she’s so wrapped up in her writing. However, I felt that the author didn’t mean for her to be unlikable but for the reader to have sympathy for her. At one point in the book a gang related kidnapping takes place at a local club. This part didn’t seem to really fit into the story or have a purpose. Maybe the author was trying to add interest to the book, but it came off as forced. Overall, the book was just a like for me not a love. I received a copy of this book from Penguin’s First To Read in exchange for an honest review. ( )

Jenna and her husband, Peter, go on vacation with his long-time friend and his wife in honor of the mens' 50th birthdays. Jenna has carefully booked a very expensive private villa in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and very much wants this to be the vacation of a lifetime. But life goes on, and people and places do not always cooperate. ( )

The Short of It:

Vacation Lit is a thing and I am a sucker for it.

The Rest of It:

Two families arrive in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. Jenna has organized the trip to celebrate her husband’s fiftieth birthday–she’s been looking forward to it for months. She’s sure everything is going to be just perfect–and the margarita refills delivered by the house staff certainly don’t hurt, either. What could go wrong? – Indiebound

A lot, but not in the way you expect. I imagined a kidnapping or a murder or some psychotic episode but this vacation goes wrong in the way many vacations go wrong; small, subtle clues that all is not what you pictured and that life is about to get challenging. Annoying, perfect friends, a husband who spends too much time working even while on vacation, teens who go off to do their own thing only to leave their parents worrying about their whereabouts. And then in the midst of it all, a full staff of servants who become reluctant witnesses to it all falling apart.

I love vacation lit. I don’t travel much so when an author takes me to another country through her writing and keeps me turning those pages, then I consider it a win. I was entertained and the story was realistic in what could happen on a vacation like this one. I felt as if I got to know the characters pretty well and the pace felt right. If you enjoy vacation lit, give Tomorrow There Will Be Sun a try.

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3/5 Stars. Writing was solid, premise of the story was interesting but follow thru was weak. Characters were more annoying than anything....I’m a worrier and even Jenna got on my nerves. The older male characters were full of themselves and chauvinistic. The teenagers were teenagers. Would give this author another try.

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