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4.28 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Apple Tree by Jewel E. Ann is the second book in her Sunday Morning series. It’s a small town, age gap, single dad, forbidden love romance that had me feeling every emotion right along with the characters.
I was completely obsessed with this book at the halfway point. I love Eve’s rebel heart as she finds her way in the world. Grandma Bonnie is definitely one of my favorite parts of this story and I can’t get enough of the special relationship she and Eve have. Josh is just the most adorable little boy. And how can you not be hot for teacher in this one? I felt like I was on a roller coaster of emotions throughout this book, but I spent most of it with a little grin on my face while reading.
I love the song titles listed alongside each chapter number. I absolutely made a playlist of the songs and really reminisced with some of them. And I enjoy all of the 80s references. Seeing Dirty Dancing in theaters? I’m so jealous!
I discovered and fell in love with Jewel E. Ann’s writing with Sunday Morning, the first book of this series. I just adore her writing style. I think I highlighted at least half of this book because so many lines are just perfection. I cannot wait for the next one for Gabby’s story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Alcohol
Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
So freaking good! I couldn't stop reading. No surprise being a Jewel book, love her work.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
The Apple Tree was an emotional rollercoaster in the best way. It had me laughing and crying. The characters were so well written, their pain and love was on every page.
Eve is 18 and a bit of a wild child. She's trying to prove that she's not a kid anymore when Kyle moves in next door. He's 28, math teacher, football coach and single dad. It's lust at first sight for Eve. She begins to fall for Kyla and Josh and Josh loves her. Kyle tries to resist the pull he has for her. Eventually, they begin a secret relationship with its ups and downs. Eve still has so much growing to do and Kyle has Josh to worry about. When Eve's drinking becomes to light and she goes to rehab, can she learn to grow and accept responsibilities? Can her and Kyle's love make it last?
Eve is 18 and a bit of a wild child. She's trying to prove that she's not a kid anymore when Kyle moves in next door. He's 28, math teacher, football coach and single dad. It's lust at first sight for Eve. She begins to fall for Kyla and Josh and Josh loves her. Kyle tries to resist the pull he has for her. Eventually, they begin a secret relationship with its ups and downs. Eve still has so much growing to do and Kyle has Josh to worry about. When Eve's drinking becomes to light and she goes to rehab, can she learn to grow and accept responsibilities? Can her and Kyle's love make it last?
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
*𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: 5.0 ⭐
*𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥: 3.0 🌶️
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🆀🆄🅸🅲🅺 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂
This book was SOOOOOOOOOO Good! I started it on the 9th and could not sleep trying to finish it. Got to finish it early the morning of the 10th and now I don't know what to do with myself. This book took me on a journey; an emotional roller coaster. I experienced joy, sadness, happiness, warmth. I just cannot explain it. The characters were so well developed and real, and the world building and nostalgia (set in 1987) was just an added bonus.
Eve and Kyle's love story was just amazingly well-written!
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⬇️ SOME SPOILERS MAY BE FOUND BELOW ⬇️
🅴🆇🆃🅴🅽🅳🅴🅳 🅳🅸🆂🅲🆄🆂🆂🅸🅾🅽/🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝:
• As a music lover, I LOVED that there was a song dedicated to each chapter and that the songs had some correlation to what was happening in the chapter (it was like a playlist for the book and I LOVED all of the songs)
• Eve’s special relationship with her Grandma Bonnie—this was her safe space; a judgment free zone and Grandma Bonnie keeps Eve’s secrets which is a bonus! 😉
o I also really liked how Grandma Bonnie was always a listening ear and gave the best advice.
• Adam and Kyle are a hoot. I laughed so much during their scenes.
• Josh was the cutest little thing, and Kyle was such an excellent father
• Eve when we meet her is stifled. As a preacher’s daughter, it’s like she has to walk on eggshells. On top of this, she is carrying so much burden and guilt as it relates to her parents and their relationship and how their religious believes and their expectations of her makes her feel like she will never measure up. This causes her to want to become and she in fact does become very rebellious. In the book, she always talks about wanting to be “fearless” and every time she said that, my heart broke a little for her. To walk around feeling like no one understands you or appreciates you or accepts you for you must be really hard and that is why we see her turning to substance abuse. What I loved was how she could be herself with Kyle. I loved that, like Grandma Bonnie, Kyle loved and accepted Eve as she was, and he even helped her when she needed it the most. He was her safe space; she could be calm and at peace with him. He was also willing to lose everything and everyone in his life just to have her by his side. I loved how he stood up to his brother and fought for his love! This was such a beautiful love story.
• Eve’s fraught/troubled relationship with her parents really resonated with me and one of the quotes that spoke the most to my soul was this one: “You have to love us even when you can’t control us, or else it’s not unconditional love.” Her relationship with her parents reminded me so much of mine with my parents. The religious aspect, the feeling that you will never measure up, the way her parents sought to control her to the point where she felt like she was suffocating was all relatable. Now, as a parent myself, I can understand where her parents were coming from but through this book I realize that control is a form of conditional love. We have to pour as much love and guidance into our children as we can and then we have to let go. We have to trust that we have done enough.
• The nostalgia got me for sure! Reading about Walkman with headphones and the scenes when she was talking on the phone and wrapping the cord around her fingers, it brought me back to my childhood
• The pinning, the want for each other, the pull between these two; my goodness---their chemistry was on fire, and I absolutely LOVED it! This was a steamy one for sure. 🔥🌶️🥵
🆆🅷🅰🆃 🆃🅾 🅴🆇🅿🅴🅲🆃
🍎Small Town
🍎Age Gap
🍎Dad’s Best Friend’s Little Brother
🍎She’s the Pastor’s Daughter x He’s the new high school football coach
🍎Brother’s Best Friend’s Daughter
🍎Taboo Relationship
🍎Single Dad
🍎She’s His Babysitter
🍎Neighbors
🍎Forbidden Love
🍎Strict/Unsympathetic Parents
🍎Traumatic Past/Abandonment Issues
🅵🅰🆅🅾🆁🅸🆃🅴 🆀🆄🅾🆃🅴🆂/🆂🅰🆈🅸🅽🅶🆂
🍎 “Angels are just rebels in disguise.”
🍎 “She was like a cigarette, addictive and bad for me, yet oddly alluring.”
🍎 “Everything and everyone in my life is boring and predictable. Be a little more inappropriate with me.”
🍎 “I don’t want to be part of the herd. I just want to be myself and go wherever that leads me.”
🍎 “…Women like you…bring men like me to our knees.”
🍎 “I was wind and fire—destructive and out of control. He was earth and water—a grounding calm force.”
🍎 “She made me reckless, and it felt like a high I had to chase.”
🍎 “Let me live. Let me stumble. Let me figure things out as I go. Just love me. That’s it.”
🍎 “You have to love us even when you can’t control us, or else it’s not unconditional love.”
🍎 “I love that you’ll never stop taking my breath away. And when I’m old and on my deathbed, I’m going to give you this smile with my last breath, and doing so will be the greatest honor of my life.”
🅿🅻🅰🆈🅻🅸🆂🆃
🎶 Chaka Khan “I Feel For You”
🎶 Poison “Talk Dirty to Me”
🎶 George Michael “I Want Your Sex”
🎶 Tina Turner “What’s Love Got to Do With It”
🎶 Prince and The Revolution “Purple Rain”
🎶 Phil Collins “In The Air Tonight”
🎶 Pat Benatar “Love Is a Battlefield”
🎶 Journey “Open Arms”
✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
* 𝑶𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 & 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 5.0 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒆
*𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥: 3.0 🌶️
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🆀🆄🅸🅲🅺 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂
This book was SOOOOOOOOOO Good! I started it on the 9th and could not sleep trying to finish it. Got to finish it early the morning of the 10th and now I don't know what to do with myself. This book took me on a journey; an emotional roller coaster. I experienced joy, sadness, happiness, warmth. I just cannot explain it. The characters were so well developed and real, and the world building and nostalgia (set in 1987) was just an added bonus.
Eve and Kyle's love story was just amazingly well-written!
✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
⬇️ SOME SPOILERS MAY BE FOUND BELOW ⬇️
🅴🆇🆃🅴🅽🅳🅴🅳 🅳🅸🆂🅲🆄🆂🆂🅸🅾🅽/🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝:
• As a music lover, I LOVED that there was a song dedicated to each chapter and that the songs had some correlation to what was happening in the chapter (it was like a playlist for the book and I LOVED all of the songs)
• Eve’s special relationship with her Grandma Bonnie—this was her safe space; a judgment free zone and Grandma Bonnie keeps Eve’s secrets which is a bonus! 😉
o I also really liked how Grandma Bonnie was always a listening ear and gave the best advice.
• Adam and Kyle are a hoot. I laughed so much during their scenes.
• Josh was the cutest little thing, and Kyle was such an excellent father
• Eve when we meet her is stifled. As a preacher’s daughter, it’s like she has to walk on eggshells. On top of this, she is carrying so much burden and guilt as it relates to her parents and their relationship and how their religious believes and their expectations of her makes her feel like she will never measure up. This causes her to want to become and she in fact does become very rebellious. In the book, she always talks about wanting to be “fearless” and every time she said that, my heart broke a little for her. To walk around feeling like no one understands you or appreciates you or accepts you for you must be really hard and that is why we see her turning to substance abuse. What I loved was how she could be herself with Kyle. I loved that, like Grandma Bonnie, Kyle loved and accepted Eve as she was, and he even helped her when she needed it the most. He was her safe space; she could be calm and at peace with him. He was also willing to lose everything and everyone in his life just to have her by his side. I loved how he stood up to his brother and fought for his love! This was such a beautiful love story.
• Eve’s fraught/troubled relationship with her parents really resonated with me and one of the quotes that spoke the most to my soul was this one: “You have to love us even when you can’t control us, or else it’s not unconditional love.” Her relationship with her parents reminded me so much of mine with my parents. The religious aspect, the feeling that you will never measure up, the way her parents sought to control her to the point where she felt like she was suffocating was all relatable. Now, as a parent myself, I can understand where her parents were coming from but through this book I realize that control is a form of conditional love. We have to pour as much love and guidance into our children as we can and then we have to let go. We have to trust that we have done enough.
• The nostalgia got me for sure! Reading about Walkman with headphones and the scenes when she was talking on the phone and wrapping the cord around her fingers, it brought me back to my childhood
• The pinning, the want for each other, the pull between these two; my goodness---their chemistry was on fire, and I absolutely LOVED it! This was a steamy one for sure. 🔥🌶️🥵
🆆🅷🅰🆃 🆃🅾 🅴🆇🅿🅴🅲🆃
🍎Small Town
🍎Age Gap
🍎Dad’s Best Friend’s Little Brother
🍎She’s the Pastor’s Daughter x He’s the new high school football coach
🍎Brother’s Best Friend’s Daughter
🍎Taboo Relationship
🍎Single Dad
🍎She’s His Babysitter
🍎Neighbors
🍎Forbidden Love
🍎Strict/Unsympathetic Parents
🍎Traumatic Past/Abandonment Issues
🅵🅰🆅🅾🆁🅸🆃🅴 🆀🆄🅾🆃🅴🆂/🆂🅰🆈🅸🅽🅶🆂
🍎 “Angels are just rebels in disguise.”
🍎 “She was like a cigarette, addictive and bad for me, yet oddly alluring.”
🍎 “Everything and everyone in my life is boring and predictable. Be a little more inappropriate with me.”
🍎 “I don’t want to be part of the herd. I just want to be myself and go wherever that leads me.”
🍎 “…Women like you…bring men like me to our knees.”
🍎 “I was wind and fire—destructive and out of control. He was earth and water—a grounding calm force.”
🍎 “She made me reckless, and it felt like a high I had to chase.”
🍎 “Let me live. Let me stumble. Let me figure things out as I go. Just love me. That’s it.”
🍎 “You have to love us even when you can’t control us, or else it’s not unconditional love.”
🍎 “I love that you’ll never stop taking my breath away. And when I’m old and on my deathbed, I’m going to give you this smile with my last breath, and doing so will be the greatest honor of my life.”
🅿🅻🅰🆈🅻🅸🆂🆃
🎶 Chaka Khan “I Feel For You”
🎶 Poison “Talk Dirty to Me”
🎶 George Michael “I Want Your Sex”
🎶 Tina Turner “What’s Love Got to Do With It”
🎶 Prince and The Revolution “Purple Rain”
🎶 Phil Collins “In The Air Tonight”
🎶 Pat Benatar “Love Is a Battlefield”
🎶 Journey “Open Arms”
✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
* 𝑶𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 & 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 5.0 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒆