A review by alenaysu
Magnolia Parks - The Long Way Home by Jessa Hastings

5.0

First of all, a MAJOR praise to Jessa Hastings:

I don’t know what Jessa Hastings put into these books but I’m addicted 🤌🏼

I never buy all the books in the series at once because I never know if in the middle I might dnf a series but this Magnolia Parks/Daisy Haites Universe books? I bought them ALL without thinking twice. Never in my life I was so obsessed with a book series that I spent my whole free time reading them and when I don’t read them, I keep thinking about them!! 

Jessa Hastings writes in such a way that the characters become so real that I get disappointed every time I think about how it’s all just fiction and not real.

Thank you to Jessa Hastings for creating this amazing universe that live in so many readers head🫶🏼

The book is divided into two parts:

In the first part we learn more about Magnolia and BJ’s past, their relationship and their traumas. We get many explanations and a deeper insight on why they act the way they do.

First I was a bit disappointed when I read the first few pages and realized that BJ has a girlfriend in this book. I didn’t expect the book to be good if the story already starts so disappointing but it all turned out SO good and I’m glad I didn’t let my initial judgement cloud my opinion on this book too much🙏🏼

Generally speaking I enjoyed the second part of the book more than the first and the reason for that is absolutely JULIAN HAITES!! 

I needed MORE of him, I absolutely fell in love with him and I’m looking forward to reading “Daisy Haites The great undoing” to read everything from his perspective 🫶🏼

BUT I do have some critic points that annoyed me (Spoiler alerts beginning from this part on):

-Yes Bj finally admitted the reason why he cheated and yes what he went through was horrible and I understand his trauma BUT it was NOT excuse enough to justify cheating

-the fact that BJ kept blaming magnolia for leaving?? And saying it was worse than what he did? I beg your finest pardon? 😃 this girl just found out you cheated on her with her best friend and you expect her not to freak out and do any drastic decisions? Why does bj think his cheating can be justified because of his trauma but magnolias reaction can’t even though she went through her own trauma in that moment? It annoyed me a lot that magnolia was portrayed as having a fault in this as well