I bought this book during one of the Stuff Your Kindle Days last year. I bought it because it sounded interesting, and the cover was cute. The blurb is longer and more detailed than the actual book.  

This book is based on the Rosebud girls, a group of girls who lived in Rosebud. They’ve had a dream since high school to own the Rosebud Lodge. The five of them promised that if it ever went up for sale, they’d buy it together. So, when real estate mogul Callie sees it for sale, she knows it’s time to pounce. Except all her friends seem to be holding back when they should be pushing forward. So, Callie decides it’s up to her to help them take the leap. There is Saffron and she is living her life, being the part owner of one of the hottest restaurants in San Francisco. But “living her life” means fourteen-hour days and having the workload of her partners heaped onto her while they sit back and accept all the awards. Saffron is beginning to realize that she isn’t spending any time with the people she loves. So, when Callie storms into Saffron’s kitchen telling her the lodge is up for sale, Saffron must re-evaluate. Is she really living her dream? Then there is Kenzie, and she is a high-powered CFO and has achieved every success she could have imagined. She is married to the man of her dreams, is working the job she’s always desired, and has a penthouse condo. But what happens when the man of her dreams drops the most earth-shattering news, Kenzie is second guessing everything. She's where she’s supposed to be, isn’t she? Then why when the going got tough did home, and the lodge call to her? Hazel is going through a divorce and its very public divorce. It's what happens when you marry to one of the biggest country stars of the decade and it would become news. However, Hazel isn’t too broken up about the end of her marriage, it was a long time coming, she is concerned about her two teenaged boys who love her and idolize their father. Now that she has full custody of her boys, she moves to the place that will heal them all, Rosebud. But when healing doesn’t come fast enough for either of her children, Hazel isn’t sure what to do, especially when her oldest, Chase, decides that everything wrong in his life is Hazel’s fault. The last of the Rosebud girls is Laurel and she has a secret. One she can’t even tell her friends. So even as the four of them decide that they need to buy their lodge, Laurel can’t. Not without revealing what is about to blow not only her marriage and her life, but maybe the entire town of Rosebud apart. And she can’t do that. Meet the Rosebud Girls as they join back together to fulfil their childhood dreams. 

I liked the storyline and the concept of like a pact and the friends coming back for their town. I loved the friendship between the girls and how they would still defend each other no matter what they are going through and the kids calling the girls Auntie, it reminds me of my mates and their children. The message throughout this story is the importance of good friends and sticking to your promises but also making compromises based on a friend's situations. I feel like this book just puts the feelers out for the series – the girls, the families and the town are introduced. Saffron is my favourite; I wanted to hug her and wanted her to kick those partners asses. 

I just wanted more. I wanted a few chapters of how they became friends, who introduced who, I wanted more of the town. Like a few chapters of them in school and why they loved Lodge so much, besides the promise of buying it if it was for sale, we don’t know why they wanted it so much. I wanted to know what was so special about Rosebud. I wanted to see them all making the pact, like Kenzie always wanted to be a mother, Saffron always wanted to be a chef, I would have loved that conversation to actual happen, even if it was a few chapters of them leaving school and why are they doing what they are doing. I felt like it was a bit rushed, I would have LOVED to see Hazel on that date and Dylan apologising to Sue and Sue telling the girls they can have the Lodge, it was like Chapter 11, they don’t know how they are getting the lodge, Chapter 12, Saffron figures out a way to maybe get the Lodge, Chapter 13, they are stood in front of the Lodge with the keys. You know, I was just hoping and rooting for more. 

If you want an easy and short read (160 pages) on Kindle Unlimited, then this book would be you and hopefully the next book in the series will have more depth.