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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
I so totally adore Susan Elizabeth Phillips. She creates vivid characters who are just the right amount of flawed to be realistic but just colorful enough to make her books a joy to read over and over again.
Sugar Beth has been married three times since she turned her back on her hometown. When she left, she had not only cut all ties with her current friends, she had destroyed the employment opportunities of a twenty-two-year-old teacher by falsely accusing him of molesting her. Life has kicked her in the butt and she just wants to go back, get the painting her great-aunt left her and get the heck out of Dodge. However, life doesn't always work out as planned and the teacher she had ruined is not only back in town, he's living in her old house. And her half-sister, the girl who held their father's affects, is now the queen of the town and her old friends.
But she holds her head high and does what she needs to do because a)she knows that she deserves some of their vitriol for what she did in the past and b) she needs to sell that painting so that she can support her Down's Syndrome step-daughter.
Even though I had a teeny problem with the ending, I love the characters, love the book.
Sugar Beth has been married three times since she turned her back on her hometown. When she left, she had not only cut all ties with her current friends, she had destroyed the employment opportunities of a twenty-two-year-old teacher by falsely accusing him of molesting her. Life has kicked her in the butt and she just wants to go back, get the painting her great-aunt left her and get the heck out of Dodge. However, life doesn't always work out as planned and the teacher she had ruined is not only back in town, he's living in her old house. And her half-sister, the girl who held their father's affects, is now the queen of the town and her old friends.
But she holds her head high and does what she needs to do because a)she knows that she deserves some of their vitriol for what she did in the past and b) she needs to sell that painting so that she can support her Down's Syndrome step-daughter.
Even though I had a teeny problem with the ending, I love the characters, love the book.
Wowww.....really liked the book. I always loved books in which..the girls have some spunk and humor in them.
At first...i was feeling really bad for Beth...but..as the book progressed..i couldn't keep the book down. It was very good. I like the character progression very much :-)
It felt like I was reading a teenagers dairy..at the starting...how they behaved and the bullying...but we can see that people change...high school is just that..high school.
I really like Colin, winne and Gigi the most..she is adorable.
Go for it...not too much drama...very sweet and read at one go. Liked it.
At first...i was feeling really bad for Beth...but..as the book progressed..i couldn't keep the book down. It was very good. I like the character progression very much :-)
It felt like I was reading a teenagers dairy..at the starting...how they behaved and the bullying...but we can see that people change...high school is just that..high school.
I really like Colin, winne and Gigi the most..she is adorable.
Go for it...not too much drama...very sweet and read at one go. Liked it.
Loved the start. But the Hero was so horrible in the second half, he ruined it for me.
Recommend if you like:
- Small town drama
- Family drama
- Enemies to lovers with the heroine who was basically a bully, and the Hero; her high school teacher she got fired. (they still had a very love hate relationship in the end)
- Push and pull relationship
Recommend if you like:
- Small town drama
- Family drama
- Enemies to lovers with the heroine who was basically a bully, and the Hero; her high school teacher she got fired. (they still had a very love hate relationship in the end)
- Push and pull relationship
I REALLY WANT TO GIVE THIS A 5-STAR BUT I CAN’T BECAUSE I HATE WINNIE’S POV WITH A PASSION. I hate her, she’s truly, utterly pathetic and I feel like each page with her narrative is such a waste of space. I don’t give a damn about her or Ryan, just Sugar Beth. Sugar Beth babyyyyyy she deserves the world.
Oh my God that scene with everyone at Frenchman’s Bride (Chapter 13)… where Colin felt guilt like no other SO DAMN
Oh my God that scene with everyone at Frenchman’s Bride (Chapter 13)… where Colin felt guilt like no other SO DAMN
This is a story, first and foremost, about redemption.
As we grow up, we all develop different areas of ourselves at different rates. As someone whose intellectual development grew faster than her moral development, I have struggled in recent years to look back on the way I acted and the way I treated others. It was wrong, but I didn't know it at the time. Learning how to move forward from that is an ongoing process and I think that's why this book hit me so hard.
Sugar Beth was a bad person as a teenager. She lied about her teacher sexually harassing her to get him fired. She tricked boys into walking in on her half-sister naked. She cheated on her boyfriend and abandoned her friends the moment she left home.
But Sugar Beth had years away where she learned what love is and how to treat other people and to realize why she'd acted out the way she did. Unfortunately for her, she also lost all her money and has to go back to her hometown, where she will perpetually be that teenage fuck-up. All that time away and growth is stripped away and she is flayed in front of all the people she's ever done wrong.
That is where this story begins. What follows is her redemption - falling in love with the teacher she got fired, finding peace with the half-sister she'd always hated, reconciling with the friends she'd abandoned. SEP doesn't make the redemption easy on Sugar - she is raked over the coals and I cried at one part for how she was treated. How long do you have to suffer for past sins? But that struggle made the redemption that much sweeter.
Why didn't this get five stars? I didn't like the prominence of the secondary romance, which I didn't find as interesting. I also didn't find the male lead nearly as compelling as Sugar Beth. Literally, I'm sitting here trying to remember his name and it's not coming to me. He was fine, but I almost think that this would have been a better as woman's fiction rather than a romance (I'm not sure I've ever said that before).
As we grow up, we all develop different areas of ourselves at different rates. As someone whose intellectual development grew faster than her moral development, I have struggled in recent years to look back on the way I acted and the way I treated others. It was wrong, but I didn't know it at the time. Learning how to move forward from that is an ongoing process and I think that's why this book hit me so hard.
Sugar Beth was a bad person as a teenager. She lied about her teacher sexually harassing her to get him fired. She tricked boys into walking in on her half-sister naked. She cheated on her boyfriend and abandoned her friends the moment she left home.
But Sugar Beth had years away where she learned what love is and how to treat other people and to realize why she'd acted out the way she did. Unfortunately for her, she also lost all her money and has to go back to her hometown, where she will perpetually be that teenage fuck-up. All that time away and growth is stripped away and she is flayed in front of all the people she's ever done wrong.
That is where this story begins. What follows is her redemption - falling in love with the teacher she got fired, finding peace with the half-sister she'd always hated, reconciling with the friends she'd abandoned. SEP doesn't make the redemption easy on Sugar - she is raked over the coals and I cried at one part for how she was treated. How long do you have to suffer for past sins? But that struggle made the redemption that much sweeter.
Why didn't this get five stars? I didn't like the prominence of the secondary romance, which I didn't find as interesting. I also didn't find the male lead nearly as compelling as Sugar Beth. Literally, I'm sitting here trying to remember his name and it's not coming to me. He was fine, but I almost think that this would have been a better as woman's fiction rather than a romance (I'm not sure I've ever said that before).
words cannot express how much I love this story
This is the most precious book I’ve read in a while. I don’t think I ever fully experienced banter like SEP’s and I was blown away. Sugar Beth’s sharp tongue, her charisma, her stubbornness all made for such a well rounded and amazing character. I loved her flaws and all. This story felt like a classic novel in the making. I think I will think about this book for a while and when I’m craving a good love story, this is one I’ll definitely turn to.
This is the most precious book I’ve read in a while. I don’t think I ever fully experienced banter like SEP’s and I was blown away. Sugar Beth’s sharp tongue, her charisma, her stubbornness all made for such a well rounded and amazing character. I loved her flaws and all. This story felt like a classic novel in the making. I think I will think about this book for a while and when I’m craving a good love story, this is one I’ll definitely turn to.
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
inspiring
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