Thanks Sveta for the nudge that reminded me I'd written all this out and not posted it. MY BAD. Sorry! The winners of a digital copy of The Long Shot are: Sally Nadia Alex AKD riwally Amy Gabriel ReadingPenguin Carrie Gwaltney SarahA_B Fiona Morrigan read more »
I enjoyed May's book club pick so much, I wanted to hit people with it so they'd read it. That's effective persuasion, right? Of course it is. The May Sizzling Book Club pick is: The Long Shot, by Ellen Hartman. Here's the plot summary: Deacon Fallon has made something of himself. Yeah, it wasn't easy becoming a successful—now retired—pro basketball player, but he did it. In the process, he made his brother's life better. That's always been Deacon's goal. This latest effort to help, however, may push Deacon too far. He's been roped into coaching the high school girls' team!… read more »
This book made me mad. Really mad. Mad to the point where I'd mark passages that pissed me off and yell at the book instead of making a note. The hero is awful until about 75% of the way through the book, and the heroine lets everyone push her around and permits varying levels of cruelty. Her family is made up of some horrible people. Her conflict is real enough, but her decision-making ability as an adult is constantly questioned and undermined to the point where she makes the decision that everyone else wants, mostly because she abandons her perfectly… read more »
I bought this book because I love beach stories, romances set in small beach towns, friends-to-lovers plotlines, and, I’ll be honest, I liked the cover, too. In the end, I struggled to finish it because while the beginning grabbed me, the middle let go of realistic emotion that I wasn’t sure whether to finish it - except that I wanted to know what happened to the heroine at the end. Macey has just returned from two years away in Thailand in the Peace Corps where she used her business degree to help small family businesses develop working plans to grow… read more »
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