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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
5 stars
God i forgot what it was like to read a book that has the holy mix of literature;
- Beautiful writing
- An amazing story
- Layered & well developed characters
- Relationships you can't help but live & breathe for
- A protagonist you'd never suspect to be relatable, but god she is
- Lessons you learn from reading each page
Bless your heart Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
God i forgot what it was like to read a book that has the holy mix of literature;
- Beautiful writing
- An amazing story
- Layered & well developed characters
- Relationships you can't help but live & breathe for
- A protagonist you'd never suspect to be relatable, but god she is
- Lessons you learn from reading each page
Bless your heart Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
emotional
funny
hopeful
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:
No
When I started this book I didn’t think I would finish it because the way it started kinda threw me for some unknown reason. As I continued reading my interest was caught, but I shouldn’t have been surprised since I love this author’s past works.
This book really shows how reading can change the way you think and make you empathetic to a person people might automatically hate for their past actions. As I read and saw present day Sugar Beth while getting flashbacks to teen Sugar Beth you can’t help but to feel for her and her frustrations, and her dealing with them the only way a kid would know how. Also, I loved that surprise at the end, who would’ve thunk.
This book really shows how reading can change the way you think and make you empathetic to a person people might automatically hate for their past actions. As I read and saw present day Sugar Beth while getting flashbacks to teen Sugar Beth you can’t help but to feel for her and her frustrations, and her dealing with them the only way a kid would know how. Also, I loved that surprise at the end, who would’ve thunk.
ANOTHER SUSAIN ELIZABETH PHILIPS MASTERPIECE.
SPOILERS.
The fact remains that nobody will ever read this review because it's just one in thousands. But I really need to write this down and express my thoughts.
I'm pretty sure angst is a factor that can help in weight loss because every damn time I read an angsty book I end up losing my appetite. But anyways, this was a very hard book for me to read because I understood every character and saw where they were coming from, and yet I was still on the female protagonist's side. We can thank SEP for that, since she always creates controversial heroines with tons of flaws and makes us love them.
In the book it was mentioned that Sugar's story was Cinderella but in reverse, and I find that amusing. Because for all the lives she ruined and the pranks she pulled and the hearts she broke, karma gave as good as she gave. She's victim to three disastrous marriages and a failure when it comes to the concept of love. She's returned to the hometown where she now has plenty of old adversaries to deal with.
I really get why her old friends, Winnie, Ryan, and Colin had to get back at her but the way they went about it made me sort of resentful towards them (I got over it, though, because Sugar sort of deserved something for the things she'd pulled). But I'm a hypocrite because I would more or less do the same thing. Childhood battles are dealt in childish ways.
I don't know about everyone else but for me 60% of the book was so very sad. It was just really difficult to see how our female protagonist lost basically everything. Because of herself, which was the hardest part. She lost some of the most real friends she had because she found them boring once she started college. She dumped a great boyfriend for exchange of a star player or something who ended up abusing her. She got disowned and lost all her wealth and privilege. Her last husband was the only decent person and she actually loved him but he died as well. She lost the chance of ever becoming a mother. So, you know, she suffered enough. I'm really glad that forgiveness was given to her and she got her own happy ending, because damn it, she deserved it.
I love this book. It's one of my favorites from now. SEP never disappoints. READ IT, FOLKS! Strike rich, boys.
Happy Reading, xo.
SPOILERS.
The fact remains that nobody will ever read this review because it's just one in thousands. But I really need to write this down and express my thoughts.
I'm pretty sure angst is a factor that can help in weight loss because every damn time I read an angsty book I end up losing my appetite. But anyways, this was a very hard book for me to read because I understood every character and saw where they were coming from, and yet I was still on the female protagonist's side. We can thank SEP for that, since she always creates controversial heroines with tons of flaws and makes us love them.
In the book it was mentioned that Sugar's story was Cinderella but in reverse, and I find that amusing. Because for all the lives she ruined and the pranks she pulled and the hearts she broke, karma gave as good as she gave. She's victim to three disastrous marriages and a failure when it comes to the concept of love. She's returned to the hometown where she now has plenty of old adversaries to deal with.
I really get why her old friends, Winnie, Ryan, and Colin had to get back at her but the way they went about it made me sort of resentful towards them (I got over it, though, because Sugar sort of deserved something for the things she'd pulled). But I'm a hypocrite because I would more or less do the same thing. Childhood battles are dealt in childish ways.
I don't know about everyone else but for me 60% of the book was so very sad. It was just really difficult to see how our female protagonist lost basically everything. Because of herself, which was the hardest part. She lost some of the most real friends she had because she found them boring once she started college. She dumped a great boyfriend for exchange of a star player or something who ended up abusing her. She got disowned and lost all her wealth and privilege. Her last husband was the only decent person and she actually loved him but he died as well. She lost the chance of ever becoming a mother. So, you know, she suffered enough. I'm really glad that forgiveness was given to her and she got her own happy ending, because damn it, she deserved it.
I love this book. It's one of my favorites from now. SEP never disappoints. READ IT, FOLKS! Strike rich, boys.
Happy Reading, xo.
This is the 9th book I’ve read by SEP in the past couple of months and I can say unequivocally that Colin is my favourite SEP hero to date. What a hero like that had any business doing in a contemporary romance novel I don’t know, but SEP brewed him up perfectly. He reminded me of 3 of my all time favourite romance heroes: Loretta Chase’s Lord Dain (beak of a nose), Jo Beverley’s Bey Malloren and Eloisa James’ Duke of Villiers in his clothing and manner – a touch of feminine to mix with the great masculinity. He was clever, mean and utterly wonderful.
To mix with that Sugar Beth just happened to be my favourite SEP heroine to date. I loved the way that SEP gave her a truly nasty, unlikeable past persona and still keep elements on that in her current day personality but tempered it with a rocky road back to her home town and a desire to do better. It must be such a challenge turning someone who bullied and manipulated her way through high school into someone worthy of forgiveness, someone that you truly end up loving as a heroine. My favourite part of Sugar Beth was her smart sassy mouth, her clever wit and the way she used both of those as defence mechanisms so people couldn’t see the true her.
What I loved even more was how Colin saw through that. The chemistry between Sugar Beth and Colin was magnificent, the way that they both stayed true to themselves as they got to know each other again and worked through a fairly awful past encounter and Colin’s anger to something softer and longer lasting. They made fun of each other, helped each other and got to know each other on a deeper level and it was just wonderful.
I did think that there was a little too much of the flashbacks to Sugar Beth’s behaviour in high school initially, but in the end I did see why all of that was needed. It just felt like a little much when you kinda already had the point of what a b*#@h she’d been in high school.
The secondary story with Ryan, Gigi and Winnie took a long time to grow on me, and I thought that it did get a little more time in the book than it should have (I just wanted more of Colin and Sugar Beth trading barbs, to be honest) but because their story was so bound up with Sugar Beth’s story it was important that it be there. I did end up enjoying the secondary story as well, although did find it bought the mood of the book down in places.
Ain’t She Sweet had me laughing, swooning and crying and really, that’s what you want to be with a book, emotionally engaged. I loved it.
To mix with that Sugar Beth just happened to be my favourite SEP heroine to date. I loved the way that SEP gave her a truly nasty, unlikeable past persona and still keep elements on that in her current day personality but tempered it with a rocky road back to her home town and a desire to do better. It must be such a challenge turning someone who bullied and manipulated her way through high school into someone worthy of forgiveness, someone that you truly end up loving as a heroine. My favourite part of Sugar Beth was her smart sassy mouth, her clever wit and the way she used both of those as defence mechanisms so people couldn’t see the true her.
What I loved even more was how Colin saw through that. The chemistry between Sugar Beth and Colin was magnificent, the way that they both stayed true to themselves as they got to know each other again and worked through a fairly awful past encounter and Colin’s anger to something softer and longer lasting. They made fun of each other, helped each other and got to know each other on a deeper level and it was just wonderful.
I did think that there was a little too much of the flashbacks to Sugar Beth’s behaviour in high school initially, but in the end I did see why all of that was needed. It just felt like a little much when you kinda already had the point of what a b*#@h she’d been in high school.
The secondary story with Ryan, Gigi and Winnie took a long time to grow on me, and I thought that it did get a little more time in the book than it should have (I just wanted more of Colin and Sugar Beth trading barbs, to be honest) but because their story was so bound up with Sugar Beth’s story it was important that it be there. I did end up enjoying the secondary story as well, although did find it bought the mood of the book down in places.
Ain’t She Sweet had me laughing, swooning and crying and really, that’s what you want to be with a book, emotionally engaged. I loved it.
The thing about this novel is that you will learn to love the main character by the end. It's really a great story. And the best part of the plot is that there are no misunderstandings. The reason I liked this book so much was because the heroine is going through the worst phases of her life and she still manages to hold her head up high and get through with it without showing her weaknesses and trying to use that as a reason to absolve her previous sins against the people she did wrong to in the past. I am a complete sucker for these tough ass heroines who at the end of the day still do need a shoulder to cry on without openly publicizing it! Sugar Beth was a great heroine. But the whole town hating her was a bit ridiculous because come on, it was 15 years ago. I also loved the romance and the hilarious conversations between Sugar Beth & Colin.
3.5 Bless Your Heart Stars
It took me almost the entire book for me to like Sugar Beth, even the name still rubs me the wrong way.
I understood her prickly exterior and major daddy issues. The rest of the characters just need to get over themselves! High school was forever ago and as adults we really know better.
I loved Colin, though couldn’t figure out how to imagine him in my mind, the descriptions of him were continuously contrary.
I enjoyed the angry banter and sexual tension between SB and Colin.
It took me almost the entire book for me to like Sugar Beth, even the name still rubs me the wrong way.
I understood her prickly exterior and major daddy issues. The rest of the characters just need to get over themselves! High school was forever ago and as adults we really know better.
I loved Colin, though couldn’t figure out how to imagine him in my mind, the descriptions of him were continuously contrary.
I enjoyed the angry banter and sexual tension between SB and Colin.
Over the top and southern which made it work! Great growth.