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Strawberry Summer
- Narrateur(s): Paige McKinney
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Heart strings officially pulled!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-08-22
Auteur(s): Melissa Brayden
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Hannah Shephard likes her life, her job, and her perfectly cozy apartment around the corner from her shop. She’s never been one to take big risks and would much rather stay in on a Friday night with a warm cup of decaf and her favorite mystery novel. So, why do her friends insist she needs more? Plus, Hannah has bigger problems to focus on. She’s in trouble. Well, her bookstore is, and if she doesn’t find a way to bring in some more cash, she’ll be closing the doors of A Likely Story for good.
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perfect
- Écrit par Stephanie A. le 2020-08-29
Auteur(s): Melissa Brayden
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Heart Block
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- Narrateur(s): Mia Chiaromonte
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Sarah Matamoros can’t complain. After immigrating from Mexico when she was nine years old, she’s content with the life she’s made for herself in sunny San Diego. She works hard at her mother’s housecleaning service by day and spends the evenings with her quirky eight-year-old daughter, Grace. From a very young age, Emory Owen had several concepts drilled into her head. Success is everything. Be the best. Fight your way to the top. Expectations were high in the Owen household and the world was watching. Born into a high society family, Emory never wanted for anything...at least anything money could buy.
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Heart Warming Heart Block
- Écrit par Betty Harmon le 2019-03-25
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The AM Show
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Cute!
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Entrepreneur and innovator Kadrienne Davenport gets results. A demanding executive and stickler for punctuality, Kade throws herself into work to avoid hurting anyone, convinced she only causes pain to those she loves. When Jennifer Spencer meets an incognito Kade at a conference, sparks fly. But when Kade unexpectedly becomes her boss, Jen's problems multiply. The company she founded is going broke, her grandmother's dementia is worsening, and her attraction to Kade -- her difficult, brilliant, charismatic mentor -- is growing.
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love it.
- Écrit par Maya le 2020-03-23
Auteur(s): Heather Blackmore
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Entangled
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Josephine Wilder’s torrid love affair is with Tangle Valley Vineyard, her family’s legacy. She’s grown up dreaming between the vines. She’s always had secret ideas about how to make the place shine, so when it passes to her, Joey vows to make Tangle Valley everything she knows it can be. Her biggest obstacle? That overly commercial hotel going up, and the uppity manager trying to kill the vineyard’s rustic charm.
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perfect
- Écrit par Stephanie A. le 2020-08-28
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Kiss the Girl
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Twenty-eight-year-old Brooklyn Campbell is having a bad day. A speeding ticket, a towed car, and a broken heel are all working against her laid-back vibe. To top it all off, her birth mother, whom she's never met, has requested contact. The only bright spot is an impromptu date with a beautiful and mysterious brunette. Jessica Lennox is what you would call a high-powered executive. She's the head of a multimillion-dollar advertising firm in New York City, and it didn't happen by accident.
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Heart strings officially pulled!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-08-22
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Hannah Shephard likes her life, her job, and her perfectly cozy apartment around the corner from her shop. She’s never been one to take big risks and would much rather stay in on a Friday night with a warm cup of decaf and her favorite mystery novel. So, why do her friends insist she needs more? Plus, Hannah has bigger problems to focus on. She’s in trouble. Well, her bookstore is, and if she doesn’t find a way to bring in some more cash, she’ll be closing the doors of A Likely Story for good.
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perfect
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Sarah Matamoros can’t complain. After immigrating from Mexico when she was nine years old, she’s content with the life she’s made for herself in sunny San Diego. She works hard at her mother’s housecleaning service by day and spends the evenings with her quirky eight-year-old daughter, Grace. From a very young age, Emory Owen had several concepts drilled into her head. Success is everything. Be the best. Fight your way to the top. Expectations were high in the Owen household and the world was watching. Born into a high society family, Emory never wanted for anything...at least anything money could buy.
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Heart Warming Heart Block
- Écrit par Betty Harmon le 2019-03-25
Auteur(s): Melissa Brayden
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Amanda Morgan is a morning show host with a fierce reputation, but a bitter divorce has left her feeling all washed up. Dakota Washington is a young reporter who is flabbergasted to meet her career idol - and biggest celebrity crush - at a friend’s out-of-town wedding. Their night together goes beyond her wildest fantasies. They were never meant to see each other again - until fate steps in, landing Dakota a job at Amanda’s network in New York City. Thanks to a draconian employment contract, the network could fire them on the spot for getting romantically involved.
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love it.
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Sutton Spencer's ideas for her life were fairly simple: finish graduate school and fall in love. It would be a lot simpler if she could pinpoint exactly what she should do when she graduates in less than a year. Oh, and if she could figure out how to talk to a woman without feeling like a total mess, that would be great, too. Charlotte Thompson is very much the opposite.
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Ellie Beckett's life is simple and uncomplicated; she's on track to become a leading expert in biomedical engineering, she has a pub where she feels comfortable enough to hang out multiple times a week, and so what if she doesn't have time for . . . people? She doesn't need or want them. Until she meets Mia Sharpe. As it turns out, maybe Ellie does want at least one person.
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Monica’s business has been hit hard by a global recession, her ex-girlfriend is selling the house out from under her, and the hot handy ma’am, Ray, who was hired to fix up the place, turns out to be the most annoying woman on the planet. Could things get any worse? All Ray wants is to finish her job and say adios to the world’s most high-maintenance client.
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Sweet & funny
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Caroline Parker knows three things to be true. First, she is going to be Boston's most sought-after divorce attorney by 35. Second, given how terrible her romantic track record is, falling in love isn't in the cards for her. And third, Christmas only brings her bad luck - being broken up with not once, not twice, but three times during the holidays is proof enough of that. When she runs into Hannah Dalton on Christmas Eve, she has no reason to believe her luck will change. After all, though Hannah is probably the most gorgeous woman she's ever seen, she's also straight.
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Dr. Jordan Williams devotes her life to two things: saving patients in the operating room and pleasuring her latest conquest in the bedroom. Her idea of commitment is spending a few hours together in bed. Single mom Emma Larson is Jordan’s polar opposite. Family and fidelity mean everything to her. After an ugly divorce from her wife, a plastic surgeon, she and her five-year-old daughter move in next door to Jordan. While she finds Jordan undeniably attractive, falling in love with another womanizing surgeon is the last things she needs.
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Way better than fine!
- Écrit par S le 2023-05-03
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Back in Your Arms
- Auteur(s): Monica McCallan
- Narrateur(s): Lori Prince
- Durée: 8 h et 38 min
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Seventeen years ago, Quinn McKinley left her small town of Kingsford for a shot at a happier life. Now a successful real estate agent in New York City, she's brought back on behalf of a client, begrudgingly accepting her return home in order to close the deal of a lifetime. Coming back opens doors she's done her best to keep closed all these years. Sawyer's spent her whole life in Kingsford, working at her family's antique store and trying to make everyone happy. Quinn's return is unexpected, knocking her routine existence more than a little off balance.
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another great story from Monica
- Écrit par D Carter le 2022-05-16
Auteur(s): Monica McCallan
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The Forever Factor
- Auteur(s): Melissa Brayden
- Narrateur(s): Lula Larkin
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Is it truly better to have loved and lost? Bethany Cahill says nope. Eleven years ago, her fellow cheerleader Reid Thatcher held her heart in her hand...and crushed it like a bug. Since then, Bethany avoids risk, reward, and anything romantic on TV. Just, no. When a new patient walks into her office, she’s catapulted into the past and staring into Reid’s eyes, who is still annoyingly stunning. Forgiveness doesn’t come easy, and Bethany isn’t about to let Reid in. Not after all she took.
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The Fiancée Farce
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Tansy Adams’ greatest love is her family’s bookstore, passed down from her late father. But when it comes to actual romance… Tansy can’t get past the first chapter. Tired of her stepfamily’s questions about her love life, Tansy invents Gemma, a fake girlfriend inspired by the stunning cover model on a bestselling book. They’ll never actually meet, so what’s the harm in a little fib? Yet when real-life Gemma crosses Tansy’s path, her white lie nearly implodes.
Auteur(s): Alexandria Bellefleur
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The Flaw in Our Design
- Auteur(s): Monica McCallan
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Olivia Carver's life in Lake Cabot, New York, is simple. That's how she likes it, even if she can't stop the town she loves from being overrun by wealthy tourists each summer. When she's not working at her family's paddleboard shop or spending time with her lovable but infuriating brothers, she puts her energy into writing professionally, a dream that has yet to materialize.
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Beautiful story
- Écrit par Kate le 2021-11-23
Auteur(s): Monica McCallan
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Lucky in Lace
- Auteur(s): Melissa Brayden
- Narrateur(s): Lula Larkin
- Durée: 11 h et 2 min
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Juliette Jennings lives her life like a tightly laced corset—not that she’d ever wear one. As a business owner of a stationery store, structure is her favorite. But when her best friend and her ex fall head over heels for each other, everything unravels and leaves her exposed. Even worse, a scandalous lingerie shop has moved in next door, and its tantalizing window displays will drive away her conservative customers. If only the owner would turn off the charm, Juliette is sure she could stop imagining her in nothing but the shop’s lacy best sellers.
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A lovely medium-fast paced romance novel with great acting.
- Écrit par Callen le 2023-09-17
Auteur(s): Melissa Brayden
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Written in the Stars
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- Auteur(s): Alexandria Bellefleur
- Narrateur(s): Lauren Sweet
- Durée: 11 h et 11 min
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After a disastrous blind date, Darcy Lowell is desperate to stop her well-meaning brother from playing matchmaker ever again. Love—and the inevitable heartbreak—is the last thing she wants. So she fibs and says her latest setup was a success. Darcy doesn't expect her lie to bite her in the ass. Elle Jones, one of the astrologers behind the popular Twitter account, Oh My Stars, dreams of finding her soul mate. But she knows it is most assuredly not Darcy... a no-nonsense stick-in-the-mud, who is way too analytical, punctual, and skeptical for someone as free-spirited as Elle.
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cute, but predictable
- Écrit par Raven le 2021-03-26
Auteur(s): Alexandria Bellefleur
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Marry Me
- Auteur(s): Melissa Brayden
- Narrateur(s): Melissa Sternenberg
- Durée: 10 h et 55 min
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Allison Hale had always played second fiddle. She didn’t win the science fair, have a million friends, or become the world’s best mom. That was her sister, Betsy. However, Ally’s managed to do something her sister couldn’t - connect her family’s failing business to the wealthy Carmichaels through her engagement to their son, Brent. All she has to do is plan the wedding of the century with the hottest wedding planner in town, Megan Kinkaid. How could she have ever guessed that Megan and her zest for life would threaten everything she’d carefully planned?
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Great
- Écrit par D Carter le 2022-01-16
Auteur(s): Melissa Brayden
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Just because you're through with your past, doesn't mean it's through with you.
Margaret Beringer didn't have an easy adolescence. She hated her name, was less than popular in school, and was always cast aside as a "farm kid." However, with the arrival of Courtney Carrington, Margaret's youth sparked into color. Courtney was smart, beautiful, and put together - everything Margaret wasn't. Who would have imagined that they'd fit together so perfectly?
But first loves can scar.
Margaret hasn't seen Courtney in years and that's for the best. But when Courtney loses her father and returns to Tanner Peak to take control of the family store, Margaret comes face-to-face with her past and the woman she's tried desperately to forget. The fact that Courtney has grown up more beautiful than ever certainly doesn't help matters.
A small town romance.
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- Brittany
- 2019-12-12
Great book
I have listened to many of Melissa's book and this is a one of my favourites! She is such a great writer and does well at capturing my attention. Couldn't stop listening until I finished it.
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- ShayT
- 2018-09-20
Yes yes yes
I love this book from start to finish! Can openly admit to listening to it multiple times.. love the characters and overall story! Highly recommend #Audible1
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- dreacraftie28
- 2017-07-07
Another case of a decent story plagued by crappy narrating
The narrators monotone voice and awkward choices for character just kept taking me out the book threw enough curveballs to keep my attention but the performance was like a rock in my shoe
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- LuceC
- 2017-05-25
Loved the book, narrator choices not so much
First off, loved the book (5 Stars). Brayden is one of the best and her books are among my favorites.
What I didn't like about the audiobook was the Narrator's voice for Maggie. The book is written in first person from Maggie's point of view. I liked her voice for Maggie's thoughts but Maggie's speaking voice is high and juvenile. Which was OK, when she was a teen. I was hoping when Maggie became an adult, McKinney would switch to a lower adult voice, but she didn't adjust. At times adult Maggie sounded like a whiny teenager. I kept thinking why would sultry voiced Courtney find this attractive? Otherwise, McKinney's other character's voices were well done. Performance: 2 stars for Maggie's speaking voice added a star for the rest of the book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017-09-12
Melissa Brayden is worthy of a better narrator
Good story .I read and loves all of her books. I do have other favourites but I would never pass on any of them. Shame the narration is bad. Sing a song kind of reading. All characters sound flat. Missing are the emotions that the words try to deliver.
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- Micky Yang
- 2020-08-13
Didn't live up to the hype.
Alright so what brought me to this book was all the hype and the references from other reviews and websites such as goodreads. I was expecting something on the level of Melissa Brayden's "Soho loft series" or Jae's "Just for Show" or Lee Winter's "The Brutal Truth," or "On The Record Series", these titles are just some examples of what great writers can convey through their writing and really embed an amazing story into my heart. This, however, was not one of those titles.
Strawberry Summer is a 2nd chance romance based on a town right next to the one I live in: Santa Barbara. So lets get into this.
Since the setting is based upon the Santa Barbara area, I just couldn't get through the fact that the people were "small town" people in this book, simply because Santa Barbara is a coastal town with an extremely high rate of college students coming in and out of it, more specifically due to UCSB and SBCC both being extremely well known colleges. Due to this fact as well as the facts of having great weather and ideal location for seaside homes, any area surrounding SB has become more and more populated over the years and the rent/sale price of homes and apartments have sky rocketed to an astounding amount, making SB a very pricey area to live.
As a resident in SB, I found it incredibly hard to picture any sort "Small Town"anywhere near where SB is. I understand that Melissa Brayden creates fictional locations so that she can be malleable with her creativity but in this case, it's unjustified for where she placed Tanner's Peak. I would understand it more if it was in the central valley or next to Napa Valley or Paso Robles but it wasn't and the feel of how real the town felt just dissipated. And seriously? farm girl? In all the years I've gone to school, not once have I ever heard of anyone being insecure about being a "Farm girl/boy," due to the fact that if they have some sort of property in this area... they're probably pretty damn rich and if they aren't, their land is worth a lot of money.
Ok so setting aside let's move onto the actual story.
The synopsis:
The story is this backwards time traveling 2nd chance at love romance where 2 MCs meet as teenagers, something terrible happens, they hurt each other and then they come together 5 years later to reconcile and have great makeup sex... the end.
My conclusion: (Spoilers!!!!!!!!)
Now I've read a couple of 2nd chance romances and I just have to say that this one just takes the cake as being the most lazy ill thought out way of reconciliation ever! I understand that the words I'm typing seem harsh but hear me out. The great tragedy in this book is that Maggie's brother dies, yep, just killed off, even if he was her bestest most amazing brother ever, Melissa Brayden kills him off. Why? Well duh, it's to create a rift between the 2 MCs so there can be drama and angst and all that good stuff. But you know why this is a terrible idea? I'll tell you why: because everything is told from Maggie's perspective and all we see is her perspective (especially how aggravatingly stupid her mind works).
So after his tragic death, Maggie becomes depressed, like code black depressed. (This is very understandable because remember that her brother was her bestest friend and most amazing brother.) Now Courtney with her wise wisdom says to maggie "It's been a year"... I mean do you really wanna say that to someone who lost a family member? Especially if she is supposed to know the connection between Maggie and her brother? SERIOUSLY COME ON WOMAN!!! Too bad we don't actually know what's going on through Courtney's head when she says that. Dang if it wasn't bad enough, she follows up with an ultimatum: Come with me and chase your dreams or Stay here and cry more. I'm pretty sure you can guess what Maggie picked lol. Anyway, Maggie then gets all gungho about bettering herself and such and then wants to go and win her woman back! woohoo that's great right? NO! Because in the short time that maggie does this (I think it was like a couple of months?), Courtney has eloped with some dude from Chicago, once again, no idea wtf Courtney is thinking. Maggie is now once again depressed and her cousin says something along the lines of "Hey let's get a drink and forget about her." (This is the last scene right before jumping back to present day.)
So jumping 5 years to present day (the last 1/3 or 3ish hours of the audio book), we have Maggie meet Courtney again! Just like that, magic seems to spark and whatever problems they had just vanish! Seriously like pixie dust, it was hilarious to listen to. See, when Maggie confronts Courtney she has all these feelings about it being a bad idea, BUT, because she's still so sexually attracted to her and can't just stop pining for her ex that got married to some guy that she was jealous of back when she was 22, she goes and has sex with her. Yep just like that. To make matters even better, when confronted with the fact that Courtney got married, Courtney counters with: "Why didn't you come get me?" SERIOUSLY????? I MEAN WOMAN YOU GOT FREAKIN MARRIED.... TO A GUY!!! WHAT THE HECK WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO DO!?!?!? Is what I wished Maggie would've said, instead, she says something along the lines of "Hey I know you broke my heart in my time of mourning and then got hitched a couple of months later but now I see things your way and I understand so let's be together." And you know what Courtney's great defense was? It was because she was heart broken and lonely, so of course she's gonna marry the first damn person that lends a shoulder, because people do that all the damn time. Yep simply just amazing story telling. At least they lived happily ever after though right?
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Narration: What can I say about narration... Paige McKinney is not bad at making different voices, in fact, she is quite good, however, her narration is so blatantly poor and does not draw out ANY emotion from the scenes, and if it does, it's the wrong kind of emotion. At the end of the book, this poor narration probably added to my great disdain of this book. It's like putting a wrong ingredient (on purpose) to an already terrible dish. It was just bad.
Overall: If you have actually reached this part I am so incredibly honored and I hoped you laughed a bit along that read because it was sort of a long review.
I only listened to this book because of all the raving reviews. I full heartedly regret buying this book and the only thing I took from this was lack of sleep because the ending bothered me that much. It made no sense to me why Maggie would want to get back with Courtney and because of the whole 1st person POV from Maggie, I just couldn't sympathize with Courtney because what she did was so incredibly stupid. To top it all off... there was no negative emotions between the 2 at the end and the side characters even cheer them on... even though that they tell 22 year old Maggie to move on from her. It was just one big contradiction and I don't understand why people like this book.
If you want something from Melissa Brayden that's quality, I implore you to read the Soho loft series or "How Sweet it is," Both are great reads that warrant multiple reads after the first.
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- Rochelle Voelkel
- 2017-11-03
Heart Warming
I loved the story line and the characters. The only thing I didn't like was when Maggie became an adult she still had her young teenage voice. The Narrator should have changed the voice a bit. Other then that I loved the story!
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- Kristy
- 2017-07-09
Authors best work ever
I laughed I cried and even got angry at times. Melissa wrote a wonderful story about life's ups and downs. This book was just awesome
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- Sab
- 2017-06-23
Love can come in different ways...
Loved the story with interesting characters and well written, I didn't like that Courtney sounded like a sexy 40 YO woman while Maggie sounded like a 12 YO child...
as the story is told in first person by Maggie, Ms McKinney should have used the same voice for her character.
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- Heidi Dyer
- 2017-06-21
Great story
Strawberries. Yum. Young love that grows with age. Characters have great dialogue! Love the interaction not only with the main characters but with all the characters. The narrator really brought the story to life!
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- GadgetGirl
- 2019-11-09
Don't Know What To Think...
The main character, Maggie, I found to be very unappealing. I don't know if it was the narrator who made her seem overly sweet, or if that's just the way she was written. But in now way did she seem like she would have appealed to or have been a good match for Courtney. There was a real disconnect between those two in my mind. Maggie seemed to be almost childlike. In one scene she was excited about going to play Pictionary with her family rather than staying to make out with her girlfriend. What teenager would make that choice? Not many, if I remember correctly.
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- Emily
- 2017-05-17
wasn't in love with this book
I really didn't like how the reader read the main character. I wasn't feeling any chemistry between the two.
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